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The zombie movement to impeach Trump theweek.com/articles/86258…
Some 137 Democrats in the House now allegedly support bringing articles of impeachment against the president for, well, something.
Part of the problem they face is that none of the horses they pick — the report of Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation, his long and painful hours of testimony in the House — ever manages to come in.
This has not stopped Rep. Al Green of Texas from attempting to impeach Trump for saying rude things about professional football players, but he has thus far failed to win the support of most high-ranking members of his party.
The exception here, seemingly, is Jerry Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who has gone so far as to suggest that the House is already engaged in "formal impeachment proceedings."
This is the pretext he is using for requesting access to the millions of pages of raw material used by the special counsel investigation.
The argument, if I understand it correctly, is that Trump is already in the process of being impeached on the basis of the unknown information that Nadler's committee has never in fact seen but must now access.
Does Nadler really believe that impeachment will go anywhere? Some of his allies in the House give a very different impression when they speak with barely disguised contempt of "the whole Al Green crowd.”
If it's not a sincere attempt to censure the president in the hope of having him removed from office, what is it? A rally-the-troops gesture? A fundraising gimmick? Good evidence that politicians, so far from being busy, have almost nothing worthwhile to do with their time?
It is 426 days until the 2020 election. That’s 529 more than it’s been since Trump took office.
If Democrats were serious, they would stop behaving as if the latter was some kind of freakish aberration, a mutable, accidental result that can be corrected by yet another round of hearings about what Don Jr. wrote in response to a series of Nigerian prince emails.
It's time to kill the impeachment zombie — for good this time.
