I'm guessing that's the main disconnect here because my immediate thoughts, and I assume others with my alignment, is "Who gives a flying fuck".
The impeachment process is just that - a process. All these terms of inquiry and investigation are meaningless. The House chooses how the process will proceed and that's that. The courts only care about the briefs, not the twitters and NYT editorials. This train is already rolling.
But again, it's all just a process. There was great scare that Pelosi was blocking even the judiciary from launching an inquiry, but that's been proven false since they've been in one for months. That was the monumental most important step of the process taken.
Floor votes, in the house and senate, can be worried about next summer. There's a lot of oversight shit that needs to get done in the interim. It ain't finishing in 2019.
I would be right on board with this whole post, but what we're seeing out of Democrats now highlights that other problem Democrats have...
Part of the reason a lot of people wanted to officially begin impeachment, outside of it being the right thing to do, was so that we could get out of that damn "will the Dems impeach???" media cycle that had the potential to never end.
And now, I'm cynical.
I'm really cynical.
And I have dragged Dem leadership before.
But not even I was cynical enough to expect Democrats to get us out of that media narrative only to plunge us into a dumber one.
You're right, it's all process. The gears are turning. But the lack of any sort of clarity or message discipline right now? "we're definitely impeaching"..."I don't think we're there yet"..."lol silly, we've been impeaching this whole time!"..."Impeachment would rip the country apart."
I'm Latrice Royale right now: