re: #377 makeitstop

More than a few people have noted that all the oversight and other committee investigations into Trumpworld acts are the functional equivalent to impeachment.

The problem is that it still lacks the enforcement against Trump. What can Congress do if impeachment isn’t a tool to enforce against a president who engages in widespread criminal misconduct.

Or, will the total weight of the evidence against Trump be such that it convinces 60 senators to vote to remove Trump - the punishment for a conviction on a single act.

With Clinton, the closest they got was 50 votes on one of the two charges that the House passed (out of the 4 under consideration).

Pelosi also knows that McConnell could even try to prevent the Senate from taking it up at all, just as he refused to take up the Garland nomination.

So Pelosi goes with the twofer - nonstop hearings, defangs impeachment, but leaves the door open while calling Trump not worth it (he is, but this is an ego hit that she knows will sting). It also suggests that Pelosi might be goading Trump into making even more mistakes.