Thread by @PuestoLoco

Pelosi EXCUSE 1: “Not enough support in the Dem Caucus.”
ANSWER 1: Pelosi’s not pushing it. She’s doing the opposite: Quashing it!
“Leaders presented them polling from 50 battleground districts to underscore the peril in backing impeachment” #FearMongering
huffpost.com/entry/house-de…

Pelosi EXCUSE 1: “Not enough support in the Dem Caucus.”
ANSWER 2: There probably is. “The House Probably Has A Pro-Impeachment Majority Right Now”
fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-h…

Pelosi EXCUSE 2: “The Senate won’t remove him.”
ANSWER 1: So? Months of televised impeachment inquiry hearings will make Trump toxic for 22 GOP Senators up for reelection in 2020. Dems only need to flip 4 seats to take back the Senate.
nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Re: Nixon 1974
“Congress wasn’t waiting on the public. It was the other way around. Congress provided guidance to the public. It’s clear from the data that impeachment proceedings gave the jolt that shook the public, among independents in particular”- Historian Julian Zelizer

Pelosi EXCUSE 3: “If we impeach, Dems will face backlash in 2020”
ANSWER 1: “Would Dems really face a backlash if they impeached Trump? Probably not.”
fivethirtyeight.com/features/would…

Pelosi EXCUSE 3: “If we impeach, Dems will face backlash in 2020”
ANSWER 2: Pelosi “ ignores the profound effect the proceedings would have on public opinion — including sustained news cycles mounting over months.”-

truthout.org/articles/democ…

Pelosi EXCUSE 4: “Evidence 1st, then consider impeachment.”
ANSWER 1: That’s what impeachment hearings are for! Televised 1st hand witnesses. Real leaders drive the polls. They don’t sit back & wait for them.

Pelosi EXCUSE 4: “Evidence 1st, then consider impeachment.”
ANSWER 2: Trump is blocking. BUT Impeachment proceedings are NOT JUSTICIABLE so he couldn’t block & drag subpoenas out in lengthy, risky court fights like he is now.
verdict.justia.com/2019/05/13/exa…

Pelosi EXCUSE 4: “Evidence 1st, then consider impeachment.”
ANSWER 3:“..after seeing administration officials defy Congressional subpoenas..” @RepKirkpatrick knows IMPEACHMENT SUBPOENAS are NOT JUSTICIABLE. Trump can’t drag them out in risky court fights.

Pelosi EXCUSE 5: “The American people aren’t there yet.”
ANSWER 1: 45% of America wants Trump impeached (Gallup poll July 3) only 2 pts fewer (47%) than wanted Nixon removed 2 weeks before he resigned. Televised hearings will drive the polls.
news.gallup.com/poll/259871/tr…

Pelosi EXCUSE 6: “Impeaching Clinton backfired”
WRONG! “Clinton impeachment lesson: Republicans impeached on far flimsier grounds, despite far greater public disapproval [65% against impeaching] lost badly in the Senate & paid no price whatsoever.”
salon.com/2019/07/16/las…

Pelosi EXCUSE 7: “It's not me. Your expectations are too high.”
INDEED: “Nancy Pelosi & the Democratic political & media establishments bungled their jobs from the first. That’s true not only of impeachment but of all matters pertaining to corruption.”
salon.com/2019/07/16/las…

Pelosi EXCUSE 8: “I’m not an autocrat”
ANSWER 1: @HouseJudiciary Dems “pummeled Pelosi with the argument that initiating an inquiry would maximize legal leverage to force compliance with their oversight demands, which Trump is choking off on many fronts.”
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

Pelosi EXCUSE 9: “We’ll hold Trump accountable”
TRUMP Campaign slogan 2020: “No collusion; No obstruction”
PELOSI Campaign slogan 2020: [30 seconds of silence] then, “I’m Nancy Pelosi & I approve of this silence.”