We cats are not distressed over the Democratic leadership team in the House stalling on impeachment hearings for now. Although we're sure tons of tweeps are rending their garments and gnashing their teeth.
Not us. We're into the slow bleed instead.
Yes, we're outraged by what we're reading in the Mueller report. (We look forward to an uncensored version so we can get outraged some more.) But when you're dealing with a President, you're dealing with two sides to the impeachment coin: the legal and the political.
Legally we have no doubts that Benedict Donald obstructed justice, and he should probably be impeached for his enthusiasm for Russia alone. We also assume that the US Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York (among other prosecutors) will make B.D. and his grifter/mobster family miserable for the rest of their natural lives.
But politically, all sorts of factors come into play as soon as you put the I-word in motion. You know the arguments, so we won't elaborate them here. But we're very interested in various House committees holding hearings: Judiciary, Intelligence, Oversight — there are a zillion threads to pull, so have at it, guys.
One word of advice: Take a page from the Trump branding playbook and refuse to call them impeachment hearings. They're just hearings. That could keep Benedict Donald from bleating, "They're impeaching me!" And with the thousands of ex-White House staffers out there who could testify, the revelations and the intrigue and the drip-drip will slide us right into November 2020. That will make us cats PURR.
UPDATE: And we're off! The House Judiciary Committee has just subpoenaed Don McGahn to testify in their first (non-)impeachment hearing. We cats will be watching, and we PURR.
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