Impeachy Keen

Right now I'm much more impeachy than Pelosi but less impeachy than AOC. 

Nixon blew up apart after his re-election. The timing is significant then, as he had specifically been re-elected through criminal activities by CREEP (remember that one?), and the Congress was in Democratic hands. We are 18 months out from the election, and this is a factor. 

What I'd like is to see is using the Mueller Report as a road map for specific Congressional investigations, make the redactions more of an issue, and give time and space for the baker's dozen other investigations to proceed.

Gut: Trump is indeed a traitor,  and Mueller showed the paths of how that might be. (Noting that the NRA spy Butina is still giving up basically a rolodex of GOP contacts and how to manipulate them.) Financial dots are going to keep connecting to show criminal conspiracy with Russians, provable in court or not.

So research and take time and then impeach: as a fundamental matter of law and democracy, as a hard hammer of accountability.  (While the ludicrous imbalance with the Clinton impeachment is interesting but not really relevant except amusing ourselves with tapes of Lindsay Graham on presidential character. Accusations of hypocrisy mean little in effect.)  Constitutionally, I've never believed you need a criminal standard to impeach: it is by design politically determined.  So while Clinton's impeachment was a bus off the guard rail, "can we impeach?" is not a big deal.

So it's "should we?" then.  I'm going with yes, but we need keep high pressure with investigations based on now well known information, and wait a little, gathering.

The politics are so hardened I doubt hearings it would affect elections negatively much, and man am I tired of what-if hand-wringing. (Please cue the next NYT article on "The Democrats have won. But how can they possibly win?" )

I still believe that the truth given space will add up and declare itself, and the silence and panic on the right now tells this is generally true, as the Mueller Report's impact deepens by the day.  The redactions seem likely to fall, one way or the other, as well.

Trump LOOKS weak, and disloyal to his own people, and orders his people to lie to protect himself. Not good stuff in right wing circles.  It's not only implausible but exhausting in terms of political capital now to to argue that the President is not a piece of shit, and the Senate knows it.

At a certain point, it's cheaper for the right to let ship just go ahead and sink. If impeachment hearings soonish can help them just let go, and find inner peace, let's go.