Reply #17: How do you expect any investigation to proceed. . .

[Journeyman]

if you accept the Republicans' initial attempt to squash it as the final word on the matter?

The Democrats don't have the power to push an investigation on their own. Only the people do anymore. "If there is any hope, it lies with the proles." So until and unless the people insist on an investigation, the best the Democrats can do is what they are doing: try to keep it in the public arena and hope that not everyone is so quick to give up and accept that no "fucking investigation . . . will (ever) happen."