It's a sign of how bad things are that we find ourselves constantly agreeing with a Bush Republican like Ana Navarro. But, entranced, we're now following her on Twitter — and we just noticed that she tweeted our entire post for today. Here's what she said:
"Every minute spent debating impeachment, is one less minute spent registering people to vote, organizing grassroots, laying the groundwork to beat Trump. Whether he’ll face impeachment is doubtful. That he’ll face an election is not. Want to hold Trump accountable? Defeat him!"
Yup.
It's absolutely true that the Mueller testimony on Wednesday laid the ground for impeaching Benedict Donald's wrinkly butt. We also recognize that impeachment is a political, not just legal, process. Therefore, House Democrats need to decide if they have the numbers to start impeachment now, or if they should focus their energies on 1) holding endless hearings the way the Republicans did on Benghazi and 2) registering billions of people to vote and GOTV'ing the Trump Crime Family out of the White House in 2020.
We endorse both. Hold hearings to educate the public, just don't call them impeachment. And work our butts off to win next year.
Because here's the thing: As the Uruguayan soccer team realized in the Andes in 1972, and as the passengers of United 93 understood in 2001, there is no one riding to the rescue. No one — not Mueller, not Tish James, not Nancy Pelosi — is going to save us. We have to save ourselves. There is only us.
So here are our marching orders. There are three major factions that make up the base of the Democratic Party: women, African Americans, and young people under 35. We need to nominate a ticket that will appeal to all three. And then we have to register folks and get them the hell out to vote.
We have to make the margins so big next year that Benedict Donald and Vladimir Putin can't claim they're rigged.
Got it? Let's get to work. We cats PURR.
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