It appears that Nancy Pelosi is starting to get push-back from within her leadership team about her reticence to initiate impeachment proceedings:
Several members of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership team pressed her to begin an impeachment inquiry against President Trump in a series of Monday night meetings, according to multiple officials in the rooms — an effort the speaker rebuffed each time.
At least five members of Pelosi’s leadership team — four of whom also sit on the House Judiciary Committee, with jurisdiction over impeachment — pressed Pelosi (D-Calif.) in a closed-door leadership meeting to allow the panel to start an inquiry, which they argued would help investigators attain documents and testimony that Trump has blocked.
Several hours later, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler met with Pelosi as well and made the case to start the inquiry, he later told his panel member on a call.
Pelosi declined to endorse the idea both times, according to the officials either in or familiar with what happened in both meetings. She and House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) argued that such an inquiry would undercut other House investigations — or that the idea was not supported by other members in the caucus.
This is a big deal because, for the first time, members of the House leadership team are a part of it:
The meeting marks the first time a chairman and top rank-and-file lawmakers — including members of Pelosi’s leadership team — have lobbied her to change her long-held position on impeachment. Judiciary Committee members for days have discussed how to move the speaker toward their thinking, but few have been willing to break with her publicly.
I think that we should be grateful that Pelosi has been an effective speaker, and that she has done a yeoman’s job of organizing the Democrats in Congress.
By the same token, General George McClellan was a masterful organizer, and did an excellent job of whipping the Army of the Potomac into shape, particularly on the matters of training, logistics, and artillery during the Civil War.
He was also a failure as a field commander, lacking initiative, and failing to exploit openings when they occurred. (His failure to follow up at Antietam probably extended the war by years)
The title of this post is taken from a telegram from Lincoln to McClellan which said, “If General McClellan does not want to use the army, I would like to borrow it for a time.”