Seize the day!

[mia]

The Impeachment Deadlock Is an Opportunity Democrats Should Seize
The longer Senate Republicans block a fair Senate trial, the more Democrats can hammer home how the scandal implicates Trump’s defenders.

....But even if we stipulate for the sake of argument that Senate Republicans will remain rock solid as Trump’s political body guards, the impeachment logjam is still a potent weapon. For one thing, it angers Trump because it denies him any vindication in the Senate. As Maggie Haberman of The New York Times tweeted when Pelosi announced the withholding of impeachment, “POTUS lawyers are looking at various options for proceeding if House doesn’t send articles of impeachment to the Senate. POTUS doesn’t want it to be left hanging that he was impeached and nothing was done by Republicans to defend him in the Senate.”

Beyond goading Trump, the impeachment gridlock allows the investigation of Ukrainegate to continue in other venues. McConnell can block witnesses testifying before the Senate, but he can’t prevent the leaking of damaging information to the media. The longer impeachment exists in a state of limbo, the more information about Trump’s activities can come to light in the press.

Continued leaking of damaging information gives Democrats an opportunity to recast impeachment as not just a matter of Trump’s Ukraine policy or his corruption of his office for political ends, but also a scandal that implicates Republicans a whole....

The current deadlock also offers an opportunity to recast impeachment into a bolder and broader indictment. Beyond Trump’s own actions, the Republican Party’s unthinking defense of the president should itself be a scandal. The longer impeachment goes on, the more visible this scandal becomes.

https://www.thenation.com/article/impeachment-senate-trial/

[kentuck]

1. "The longer impeachment goes on, the more visible this scandal becomes."

I agree with this comment.

[mia]

3. The thought that "nothing was done by Republicans to defend him in the Senate...."

Will bother him even more. Why can't Trump get the Senate spectacle that he clearly wants?

[2naSalit]

2. As the guilty get

buggy as hell, they will out themselves and heading into elections this will be a good time to just let them twist in the wind getting more and more unhinged as more and more evidence comes to the surface.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. Pelosi made it perfectly clear it's not about "policy"

Impeachment was never about "Trump's Ukraine policy"; it was about Trump's abuse of power undermining the U.S. Constitution. A difference of opinion on policy is a matter to be addressed by the public calling their representatives in government and ultimately at the ballot box. Trump took actions to undermine democracy itself. This is not a difference of policy but a threat to the nation.

[mia]

5. Trump is "a clear and present danger to our free and fair elections and to our national security."

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. exactly! knew there had to be a clip; thanks!