(02-19-2019, 11:18 PM)Rajvik Wrote: Considering the source, I highly doubt it. Now before anyone goes screaming "prove it" i will point out that if the house oversight committee actually had such they would have immediately called for his impeachment.
The Republican Party vs Bill Clinton was an excellent object lesson in why impeachment is not something to be done speculatively. You don't try it on a maybe; you get the ducks in order first.
And today, it is a repeatedly demonstrated fact that every single time the Republicans in the Senate have been asked, "Is this a bridge too far? Has the latest outrage, the latest obscene violation of our country's laws, and interests, and integrity, and basic self-respect finally been too much for your conscience?", they have replied, overwhelmingly, instantly, always, "No. I approve of these actions; I endorse them."
As long as they're willing to cover for the White House's treason, impeachment isn't going to happen, so it makes perfect sense that that card has stayed in Pelosi's hand rather than being played.
That said, one of the possible angles to gain political benefit from the moral necessity of blowing this whistle is that it will pry off a useful fraction of their campaign backers and/or marginally less self-destructive supporters, and thereby playing their cowardice back against itself to gain at least some of the needed Senate votes.