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Because a lot of people dont believe Politico.
At least five members of Pelosis leadership team four who also sit on the House Judiciary Committee with jurisdiction over impeachment pressed Pelosi to allow the panel to start the inquiry, which they argued would help investigators attain documents and testimony Trump has blocked.
Pelosi, according to sources in the room, pushed back on the idea with senior leaders, including House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.). Pelosi has also long been an impeachment skeptic and tried to tamp down impeachment talk in her caucus as recently as last week by encouraging members to focus on their legislative agenda.
...The meeting underscores the first time Pelosis rank-and-file members including members of her leadership team have lobbied her to change her long-held position on impeachment. Judiciary members for days have discussed how to move the speaker toward their thinking, but few have been willing to break with her publicly.
However, a core group of Judiciary Democrats on Tuesday plans to begin calling for an impeachment inquiry if former White House counsel Don McGahn does not show for subpoenaed testimony at 10 a.m., according to multiple sources familiar with the plan. The White House on Monday moved to block McGahn from showing up, arguing that he is exempt from testimony.
More at https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pelosis-leadership-team-rebels-on-impeachment-presses-her-to-begin-an-inquiry/2019/05/20/263c11de-7b5b-11e9-a66c-d36e482aa873_story.html?utm_term=.ce99a1d6b23e
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Begin an impeachment investigation, AND press forward with a legislative agenda.
BeyondGeography
(39,284 posts)Raskin argued that an inquiry would allow leadership to centralize all of the investigations into one inquiry and then allow everyone else to focus and talk about the Democratic agenda items that won them the majority in 2018.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Show the average voter, the un-obsessed voter, if you will, that the Democrats can handle both things.
TwilightZone
(25,342 posts)If/when we pursue impeachment, "Democratic agenda items" will get buried in the media. It will be all impeachment, all the time.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)I'm tired of the media trying to ramp this up into "Democrats in disarray" headlines.
spooky3
(34,303 posts)Primary or only concern is that voters may not like their starting impeachment. I have not heard a single Democratic elected officials saying this. I believe that, because the Senate will not vote to convict, the impeachment process will not result in the desired outcome, which is to remove Trump from office, and could even strengthen his hand in 2020. That is, I believe, the main reason the leadership thinks starting impeachment now would be a mistake. Their challenge continues to be, how to gain more public and court support for their actions, which may in turn increase pressure on Republican Senators to do the right thing, and lead voters to kick Trump out in 2020, if the Senate wont.
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)tomorrow so they might as well get on with it.