Pelosi Pours Cold Water On Impeachment: 'We Can Investigate' Without 'Drafting Articles'

[FM123]

(Talking Points Memo)

In a call with members of her caucus on Monday evening, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi encouraged her colleagues to pump the breaks on talk of impeachment, Politico reported.

“We can investigate Trump without drafting articles,” she said, according to sources on the call who spoke to Politico. “We aren’t going to go faster, we are going to go as fast as the facts take us.”

In a letter to House Democrats on Monday, she also reminded her colleagues that the “facts regarding holding the President accountable can be gained outside of impeachment hearings,” according to Politico.

As some within the caucus reignite talks of impeachment, Pelosi and other Democratic leaders like House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) have extinguished any knee-jerk impeachment talks, likely because of the political consequences of drafting articles.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pelosi-pours-cold-water-impeachment-we-can-investigate-without-drafting-articles

[abqtommy]

1. I have read elsewhere

that filing impeachment opens up the granting of requests for records of grand jury testimony. Why restrict our access to critical information?

[uponit7771]

2. Yes, and restricts Red Don's rights of pardon to some degree

[uponit7771]

3. Maybe she's thinking of timing that she can drag it out into the election cycle. Otherwise the case

... against impeachment doesn't make a lot of sense factually

[PTWB]

4. That makes the most sense.

Anything that happens between now and a month before Election Day probably isn’t going to matter. That’s just the way our shitty attention span country is now. A huge scandal immediately before the election might help a little.

[uponit7771]

8. +1

[honest.abe]

19. Yes, that is what is probably going on here.

I cannot imagine Nancy would eliminate the possibility of impeachment. I suspect she and others are strategizing the best timing to pull the trigger. That's fine with me if that is the case.

[Freethinker65]

5. They can and they will investigate. That is their job.

If their investigations lead to confirm impeachment is warranted, they must proceed with impeachment.

[uponit7771]

9. There's no ... "if" ... that's some bullshit at this point. What more do they need!? I agree with

... Mathews; " 6 months from now things aren't going to get better from what came out of Mueller report ..."

[Freethinker65]

12. Agree. But they need to do their own investigations

And if the investigations are public, so much the better.

[uponit7771]

13. True, I would be on board with that ... I pray she's explains this and the path forward and not with

... some "if" ... that would so deflating

[manor321]

6. She did not "pour cold water" on it. Some in the media aren't reporting this correctly.

[uponit7771]

10. Yeah they did if they're looking for more information to impeach Red Don. They already have enough

... right now but if the hearings are a "we need more to impeach" Red Don then this is just distraction from impeachment

[beachbum bob]

7. She is taking the correct path, investigate, investigate, investigate and end of day hold 6 months

of hearings for drafting articles of impeachment.

Pelosi does have some political knowledge

[uponit7771]

11. Hopefully, that sounds smart but if at the end of the day they have to decided on impeachment then t

.... that's fucked up.

Red Don can be impeached based on the Mueller report alone ... piling on is what the hearings should be not a "we need more" venture.

[beachbum bob]

14. no, its about a tactic and the long game. Let Pelosi do it her way, if the EVIDENCE is overwhelming

on multiple fronts, what a better way to force McConnel and the GOP to defend/deflect an impeachment trial.

The actual articles of impeachment is the EASIEST thing that Pelosi can do BUT not the smartest AT THIS TIME. This is our tact to realize a landslide win Nov 2020

[DontBooVote]

15. Between tRump's henchmen refusing to honor subpoenas and Pelosi's refusal to impeach, we are

FUCKED!

WTF is going on? I'd put money right now that tRump and his henchmen will get away with everything because there is no check on them and they get more emboldened every day.

We are truly fucked. It's the end of the rule of law and our democracy and there's no one to whom to turn for justice and to save us from the fate of the Russian people.

[Blue_Tires]

16. she forgot to add "...for now."

[Hotler]

17. Thank you Nancy. You and Don have a nice day.

I have no hope. I see no future.

[Trumpocalypse]

18. I remember people in 2007 saying the same thing

when Pelosi took impeachment off the table. Then we had big victories in 2008.