Another day, another round of Pelosi telling Democrats to just stop with all this impeachment talk. Politico reporting on the meeting this morning on impeachment.
Sources in the room said Pelosi sat stoically while House Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters — a longtime impeachment advocate — broached the subject in front of the 235-member caucus during a closed-door meeting in the Capitol.
Waters told colleagues the House has a responsibility to impeach Trump, and she mentioned her own efforts to access Trump's financial records from Deutsche Bank. Pelosi responded by pointing to various House committees' efforts to win court battles against Trump and hold administration figures accountable without taking more dramatic steps. But other advocates for beginning impeachment also spoke up.
“Betting everything on the election is a historic mistake,” said Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), a proponent of impeachment.
“Please don’t raise money off your impeachment stance,” Pelosi said after Huffman spoke.
She’d rather spin this as a “cover-up” but seems to prefer if everyone would stop using that impeachment word, including on fundraising. Apparently preferring to bet everything on the 2020 elections and stop speaking of this impeachment thing...
"It was a very positive meeting, a respectful sharing of ideas. And, I think, a very impressive presentation by our chairs. We do believe that it's important to follow the facts. We believe that no one is above the law, including the President of the United States, and we believe that the President of the United States is engaged in a cover-up — in a cover-up, and that was the nature of the meeting." — Speaker Pelosi after the meeting
Though sadly, while Pelosi is the face of inaction — there’s a good deal of pushing that needs to be done with the rest of the caucus apparently.
“There is a growing number of members who have publicly articulated a desire to move toward an impeachment inquiry but as far as I can tell the number is somewhere between 20 and 25,” he continued. “There are 239 members of the House Democratic Caucus, which means the overwhelming majority continue to believe that we should proceed along the course that we’re on right now.”
It would be nice of had more leadership at the top guiding the caucus towards protecting the rule of law, rather than aiding Trump’s lawlessness by encouraging them to look the other way.