Liberal elitist media out of touch with everyone except the crazies

Democratic Voters Want Impeachment. The House Dawdles.
Despite what party leaders say, ordinary people care about Trump’s lawbreaking.

Until quite recently, Democratic House leaders justified their refusal to begin an inquiry into impeaching Donald Trump by saying that it wasn’t something their rank-and-file voters cared about. “I can tell you I never hear somebody bring up the Mueller report,” Representative Cheri Bustos, chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said in Chicago last month.

After the Memorial Day recess, that argument is no longer tenable. Across the country, Democratic voters have begun demanding that their representatives take a position on impeachment. “At virtually every town hall, round table, or even, today, a kaffeeklatsch at a senior center, people want to know what we are going to do about this guy,” Mary Gay Scanlon, Democrat of Pennsylvania, told me. Scanlon is vice chairwoman of the Judiciary Committee, which would oversee an impeachment inquiry, and two weeks ago she came out in favor of starting the process.

So I guess according to writers at the NY Times, anyone who is either Republican, Conservative, Independent, or neutral is not an "ordinary" person?  Because only as sliver of Republicans want to see impeachment, and Independents are also against it by approximately two to one.

The issue here seems to be that the elected Democrats are "actually" for once seeing a bigger picture that the liberal media and rank and file crazies do not see. That, of course, is that Democrats will not win in 2020 by pissing off Independents and otherwise disgruntled Republicans.

Nothing will unite Conservatives and Republicans more than a good partisan impeachment fight over a fake investigation by partisan liberal prosecutors who after 22 months and $35 million found what the little boy shot at and missed. I think Pelosi actually gets that.

I don't believe that others (such as the 2020 candidates) really seem to care, because they are in their "play to the base" portion of their campaign. Once the Democrats decide on a candidate, the good old "drift back towards the center" will be on full display. But for now, they need the support of the crazies.

The media is attempting to sell the illusion that impeachment hearing would be more Richard Nixon than Bill Clinton. The argument was that Nixon was not seen as a "crook" until Congress started hearing, and the shit hit the fan. Nixon, of course was actually guilty of the underlying crimes in the Watergate affair, as well as obvious obstructive behavior of destruction of evidence, witness tampering, and witness intimidation.

The other big difference between Nixon and Trump is that Nixon did not live through three years of Watergate investigation before impeachment was brought up. The public knowledge, investigations, and investigations happened nearly simultaneously. It wasn't the idea of "impeachment hearings" that started his downfall, it was the overwhelming facts brought forward that Nixon was a criminal.

It's hard to imagine that anyone actually believes that after three years of investigating all of this, that one more investigation will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Especially in light of polling that suggests a majority (and in some polls a wide majority) of voters who are ready to move on. And why wouldn't they, after three years and coming up blank? Sometimes you have to listen to the American electorate as a whole, rather than your own rank and file crazies.

The more obvious reason why Democrats may decide to go down the path of impeachment is to create some sort of political competition for what is surely to be worthy of public interest in the investigations into the investigators. Perhaps they believe that the best defense will be more offense. Perhaps either way they look at it, the options are bad. Either they piss off a great deal of the Independents that they need, or they allow bad press against former Obama officials to dominate the news over the next few months.