The Fokus wrote:
Trollminator wrote:
I think they will need to get at least one of them on record. I doubt there will be more openness from Senate Rs to follow the rules. Dems haven’t made a strong case to the people yet, as reflected in the impeachment polls. They don’t have to convince the GOP, they have to convince voters in their states. The strategy is vote on the evidence they have been able to get and include the president’s obstruction in their report to the Senate. These hearings have gone exactly as expected so not sure there is much more Dems can do here besides get involved in long court battle.
There's no chance at removal so the Democrats need to put on the best show they can. That may involve a strategy of not moving forward with impeachment and using the campaign strategy of saying that the WH was uncooperative and the people did not hear from the witnesses who knew the truth.
The witnesses thus far have been compelling however most Americans have no idea who these people are and I think dragging the hearings out is going to work against the Democrats in the long run unless they get a couple of "names" in front of a microphone such as Bolton or even Rudy.
Watching Rudy walk out in handcuffs sometime in May or June may have more effect on the election than any impeachment failure put forth by the Democrats.
Dragging the Clinton impeachment process out, near the end of Bill Clinton's second term, won the Republicans eight years of Bush in the White House.
