Pelosi says impeachment 'not a priority' after Cohen's guilty plea

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30. I think she's doing the right thing.

I want the Damp Lord tossed out as badly as any of us, but there's zero chance of a conviction in the Senate under even the most optimistic projections of what might happen in the election. That would empower him. And as also stated here, it would shift the focus from the shaved orangutan to Pelosi.

If there's going to be an impeachment, we need the conditions that pertained in 1974 - a case so glaring that even the president's own party is compelled to go along with it. Last year, I actually thought Republicans might be willing to remove Trump this year if it became apparent that Trump's unpopularity would cost Republicans the Congress in November. I thought it would come down to a practical matter of saving their jobs and their majority. Even if they weren't necessarily ready to put country over party (as many Republicans were in 1974), they might not want to lose elections.

But we're in a different political environment than in 1974. Trump's cult followers won't listen to reason. The wrongdoing here is way beyond glaring, but I'm not sure it's even a matter party over country - it's all about Trump. Nixon had nothing like it. Republicans are damned if they do, and damned if they don't - they either act in the best interest of the country (and lose Trump's followers), or they back Trump (and lose everyone else).

It's regrettable that our country has to be slimed so badly as this unfolds. I want to see him leave office in such disgrace that his portrait is never displayed in the White House. Leaving office under arrest would be even better. But at the present time, I really don't see impeachment as a reality. Our best bet would be to compel resignation.