Just reading Twitter, it seems pretty clear that Speaker Pelosi will never countenance Impeachment

[NewsCenter28]

She has decided that since the GOP will never vote for it, it’s not in the party’s best interests to force her vulnerable swing district incumbents to take such a divisive vote. Impeachment is a pipe dream that the leadership will never support and we need to focus all our energy on the 2020 elections instead to depose 45.

[StarfishSaver]

1. I guess the Twitterverse would know ...

[NewsCenter28]

4. Her staff

told a reporter on Twitter ‘no we will not support impeachment. See any GOP votes for it?’

She will not allow it unless McConnell decides to champion the cause.

[SlogginThroughIt]

12. Can you show me that direct quote?

[melman]

25. here

Link to tweet

[SlogginThroughIt]

27. Wait who is being quoted in that?

Also it doesn't say that she won't support it.

[melman]

28. .

[SlogginThroughIt]

29. Roll your eyes all you want.

I do not ever remember her saying that she would not ever support it.

And that quote doesn't say that either.

[canetoad]

41. +1

Truth.

[melman]

42. Yeah

Sure. Whatever you say.

[betsuni]

45. Pelosi: "Impeachment is never off the table."

[George II]

48. Typical circle game here. Someone claims something was said, it's been proven that it...

...was NOT said, and ends with "whatever".

To me that's acceptance that you're correct. At least you got more out of it than most, good job.

[George II]

47. "adviser"!

[George II]

46. "adviser".....

[bitterross]

13. McConnell can't support it, he's guilty too

I don't see McConnell support ever. He's too compromised.

[aeromanKC]

26. Which will never happen without the Impeachment hearings and trial

False argument.

Akin to McConnell not bringing up gun safety legislation because Trump will not sign it.
(seems McConnell hasn't read the Constitution)

[TeamPooka]

34. There's no reason to do the right thing and enforce our laws unless it wins the

support of corrupt Republicans, right?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

44. there's the nub of the matter

If we avoid doing the right thing because corrupt Republicans do not support it, we then limit ourselves to doing only corrupt things.

If we choose political expediency over doing what is right, then we are emulating Republicans and give credence to the "both sides do it" mantra.

We need to do what is right.

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.

[donkeypoofed]

2. The Senate would block it anyways

But this Ukraine phone call thing might be the catalyst we've all been waiting for.

[Roland99]

8. Who fucking cares?? GOP didn't care when they impeached clinton

And the hearings would air massive amounts of evidence of his criminal behavior

[Baltimike]

15. we already have evidence of his criminal behavior...it doesn't *matter* to Trump Chumps

facts don't *matter* to them...or they wouldn't support him..."beating the libs" does. Spite matters to them.

[Roland99]

16. So impeach his ass!

At the very least, it will serve to repress some on the fence voters

[wasupaloopa]

17. Give me a list of the witnesses for those hearings. Witnesses that are not trump supporters.

[Roland99]

19. Why does it matter who they support?

Get them under oath and televise the whole damn thing

Hillary withstood 11hrs under oath and televised. These sniveling quislings can, too

[JI7]

30. people here were freaking out during Lewandowski

[wasupaloopa]

35. The last hearing taught the public that trump's witnesses make us look like we are not cabable

of the task.

[StarfishSaver]

36. That's all you got out of it?

Interesting

[wasupaloopa]

38. Why don't you criticize me instead of being smug? The whole world knows we were bested.

Interesting that you can't see it or can't admit it!

The criticism is that the 5 minute rule was not in our favor. Lewendowski (sp?) filibustered the Dems for 5 minutes then a repub came up with their 5 minutes of bull shit.

Nothing got accomplished toward teaching the public about trump until the lawyer took over.

I will bet that if we get another witness to testify the 5 minute rule will not be in play. That's because we learned from our mistake!

[NightWatcher]

3. We're going to focus on the election he's already begun trying to illegally rig.

I'm sure he won't be as successful stealing a second election.

[Grasswire2]

5. Can't write what I would like to write. nt

[BeyondGeography]

6. Fine by me

Said every Republican Senator up for re-election.

[Joe941]

7. Its sound reasoning.

[Flaleftist]

9. Okay. Someone help me understand this.

I keep hearing about these vulnerable swing districts as the reason to not move forward on impeachment. Didn't they get elected in 2018 to be a check on Trump? Now they aren't going to do the job people came out and voted for them to do because it might cost them their seats?

It seems like being elected indicates they have the support to be that check on Trump.

[Flaleftist]

23. Anyone?

[JI7]

31. none of them ran on supporting impeachment

[msongs]

10. silence is consent nt

[pwb]

11. She gets an A+ from me on procedure.

You must not have read my tweet.

[CanonRay]

14. She should go back and read her oath of office

maybe that would change her mine. She's letting us and the nation down, IMHO.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

18. Kind of makes you wonder exactly why she's taking that stance.

How does she benefit from no impeachment?

[ecstatic]

20. How many are vulnerable? My congressman won 78% of the vote and is holding out.

Clearly, a solidly blue district. I'm beyond furious and disgusted with him. I have to figure out how to write yet another respectful letter urging him to get on board.

[Anon-C]

52. That's unconscionable if truly he won by that margin.

[Celerity]

60. here are all 42 House Democrats who won by 10% or less in 2018

All but SIX were flips from Rethug to us

all at 7.67% margin or less (except long time Rep. Collin Peterson who is a centre right Democrat in a ruby red district) were flips

the Rethugs had 48 House Reps. who won by 10% or less, many are retiring, most all are vulnerable

https://ballotpedia.org/Congressional_elections_decided_by_10_percent_or_less,_2018






























here is a link to see where all House members currently stand on impeachment

https://www.needtoimpeach.com/where-congress-stands/

[nini]

21. Twitter?

LOLOLOLOL

[OliverQ]

22. People are getting really fed up with Dems failure to do anything on this.

Twitter is exploding at Pelosi for refusing to support impeachment. My own family is ready to stop being a registered Democrat and switch to Independent.

All Pelosi is doing right now is making Dem voters who worked their butts off to put Dems in power in the House last year realize their efforts were meaningless and there is no point in voting in 2020.

[ecstatic]

24. +1000. Read the letters on resistbot's page

People are going in!

https://twitter.com/openletterbot

[StarfishSaver]

32. Who's resistbot and why should I care what people are writing to him/her/it.

[ecstatic]

50. It's an easy way to write or call your representatives in Congress

After writing your letter, if you agree, it posts an image of the letter you wrote on their page. Most of the letters are awesome and eloquent.

You should care because it shows that you and Nancy's position on giving trump a pass is untenable and, if not reversed and soon, will backfire next fall. The base cannot and will not ignore that trump is committing crimes. That's called complicity.

Edited: to get started with RESISTBOT, text resist to 50409
Or, on Twitter, Send “resist” as a Direct Message to @resistbot to write your own.

Link to tweet

[dustyscamp]

33. This will hurt us

[xmas74]

39. Others think if we go with impeachment

It will rile up his base, allowing for reelection.

Impeachment is a tightrope right now. I understand the caution. I suspect the idea is to totally focus on 2020 and if he is reelected then go with impeachment. If he loses 2020 let NY state get their crack at him.

[ecstatic]

53. Being more worried about pleasing trump's deplorable base

than the Democratic base is absolutely disgusting, especially since the truth is on our side!

[Kaleva]

43. In the real world, I have yet to hear anyone talk about impeachment.

[Ace Rothstein]

37. Hopefully we keep the House and get a new Speaker.

Was hoping we'd have a new Speaker earlier this year. We need some younger blood with courage in the leadership roles. The old guard needs to retire.

[ehrnst]

55. That's up to Congress. They will elect who they know to be the best leader

and that is often the one with the most experience.

To say Pelosi lacks courage is naive at best. Why do you think the GOP hates her so much.

She doesn't fear them or people thinking that she's "old."

[secondwind]

40. We don't have the votes yet!!!!!!!

[OnDoutside]

49. Aside from all that, if they got rid of Trump, it could well get the GOP off the hook. Be careful

what you wish for. Republicans have been embittered since Nixon, the irony is they may be embittered by the NON-impeachment of Trump.

[Joe941]

51. Pelosi knows more than any of us. Let's trust her judgement....

It's why we have her as our leader.

[StarfishSaver]

56. But, but that means you're blindly following a leader

say the people telling us that it's so because the Twitter said it ...

[TidalWave46]

57. "Just reading Twitter"

Is a really bad way to formulate an opinion.

[Snake Plissken]

58. The problem with that is swing voters find weakness to be about as appealing as Trump

It's "too politically inconvenient" to even try to save our nation ... won't make voters run to the polls to vote for you.

[Hortensis]

59. Saturday, we'd already had a sea change with the whistleblower action.

So while the OP made a point about the 2020 elections, the OP itself was doomed to become a parody of its type from the beginning. "Twitter says..."!

Well, hopefully, no one still needs a coast-to-coast warning from the National Hurricane Center to notice something's happening. For now, some of what's happening,

1. Pelosi's called for a meeting of all related committee heads this morning.
2. At 4 o'clock she's called for a meeting of the entire house membership, but she spent the past few days calling them to sound them on support.
3. Many leadership aides now say Trump's impeachment is almost inevitable.
4. Adam Schiff, after discussion and agreement with Nancy, announced this weekend that impeachment may be inevitable.
5. Nancy's longtime close friend and ally, Rosa Delauro, has called for "decisive action," which she would never do if Nancy didn't want her to. she used the world investigation, though.
5. The 7 freshman Dems with backgrounds in national security who just spoke out are in RED AND PURPLE districts. They're among many in the caucus whom Nancy's been protecting from being hurt by the impeachment issue, but now they've put themselves out there.

Best to avoid over-reaction while we see how this plays out, though. Those already settled into surrender should probably just stay put for some while to avoid further emotional damage. The bumpy ride isn't over by any means.