Reply #24: the first step is going to be a resolution like the one's I cited.

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DK could've proposed such a resolution and tried to have a serious discussion about why the Judiciary COmmittee should be authorized to move forward in the same way it was authorized to move forward against Clinton.

I think that approach would've made it more difficult for Pelosi and Hoyer to simply try and squash the effort (although they probably would've anyway). But at least he'd have the argument available that there is at least as much reason for the Judiciary to take a serious look at whether impeachable offenses have been committed and to recommend articles as there was in the CLinton case. I think that would put the repubs in much more of a spot opposing the resolution and would also give red-state Dems some additional cover. Would it be enough? Maybe not. But the approach he took was doomed from the get go -- a majority of the house was never going to vote on articles of impeachment without following the process set by historical precedent and his original resolution, which suffered from the same infirmity, was never going to trigger any action.