Pelosi’s dramatic impeachment move is really just another stall – NY Post

By Post Editorial Board, New York Post September 24, 2019

By announcing that the impeachment inquiry is now “official,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave the nation (or at least the national media) loads of drama Tuesday evening — but without actually doing anything.

House Judiciary chief Jerry Nadler has already been calling his committee’s work an “official” impeachment inquiry, after all; now the speaker says the same. But she’s still not allowing any actual votes on the House floor about it.

All she’s “done” is instruct six committee chairmen, including Nadler, to pull together all the dirt they’ve got. That’s apparently to go to Judiciary, which then might eventually vote on whether to recommend the full House vote on taking some next step.

In short, Pelosi is stalling. Now that two-thirds of her members (and most of the party’s base) is howling for impeachment, she needed to do something. But she still doesn’t have the votes — a majority of all 435 representatives — to pass anything.

This, when the White House is set to release the transcript of President Trump’s call with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky that Trump clearly believes will show he didn’t make any threats as he pushed for a reopening of the Hunter Biden investigation.

And as the whistleblower who created this latest storm is getting set to testify to Congress within a week or two — which means that the battle over the release of his complaint will soon be moot. (Even if he testifies behind closed doors, everything will leak.)

Pelosi’s members are rushing to judgment not on the basis of the latest facts, but the latest claims as reported mostly by leakers with unknown agendas to media outlets that despise the president. They’ve learned nothing from the way the same outlets blared all the ridiculously distorted “revelations” about collusion.

So far, there’s no sign that Trump even did as much to push Ukraine to investigate Biden as the Obama administration did to push Ukraine to investigate Trump during the 2016 campaign. If he did, that evidence will come out soon enough.

Pelosi knows all this, but doesn’t dare say it. So, instead, she’s tossing the base yet another purely symbolic bone.