Democrats reached an undeniably important milestone on their path toward impeaching President Donald Trump.
It’s also — in its own way — largely meaningless.
The milestone is that 118 House Democrats — half their caucus there — have called for the start of an official impeachment inquiry into Trump, a significant number of legislators, who include the far left of the party but also some members who flipped GOP districts last fall and even a few allies of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
It’s clear that the momentum of the party is toward impeachment even if party leaders like Pelosi, who recalls firsthand backlash to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and insists on a methodical step-by-step process focused on obstruction of justice.
But even at more than 50% of the Democratic caucus, that’s still less than a third of the full House, not to mention Democrats control only half the Legislative Branch. That math is not lost on Pelosi, who once told David Axelrod’s “The Axe Files” podcast that among the chief political lessons she learned from her father — Baltimore mayor and Democratic ward leader Thomas D’Alesandro — was “I learned how to count.”
This growing public support of Democratic lawmakers demonstrates how far they’ve come since last year, when it was just a few actively pursuing it in part because Democrats were waiting to see what was in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian election interference……..read more
Source: CNN
