>"independents or Republicans"
>
>>"The impeachment at this point isn't having any effect
>because
>>it's not moving independents or Republicans against Trump,"
>>said Fordham University political scientist Monika McDermott
>>at a briefing about the polling results.
>
>I would be embarrassed at attaching my name, field, and
>institution to analysis like this. And I'm a nobody, in an
>even less rigorous field, who is an adjunct mercenary and
>doesn't even have an institution so much as a bare desk in one
>of the three places that pay me.
>
>But for real, the above isn't thoughtful. Nor is implicitly
>accepting notion that there is *any* way of criticizing Trump
>that would be seen as legitimate by Republicans.
>
>I still wish the Dems had focused more firmly on the obvious
>crime of enriching himself with public funds though. The
>Ukraine thing is clearer than the Russia thing, but double
>dipping by charging taxpayers so the secret service can do
>their job at his real estate holdings is the sort of person
>that anybody who's ever checked to see if the coast is clear
>before they pocketed some non-dairy creamer can get behind.
>

Democrats being typically timid, they tied their hands.

Ukraine. Enriching himself. Obstructing justice in
Mueller investigation. All of it.

This desire to rush through it and make it “easier to
understand” is a fucking huge mistake.

They should have piled on. Make senators like
Collins pick a side on all of it- not just Ukraine.

“Inappropriate but not impeachable” will be everywhere
for months now.

Why the fuck did they limit themselves?

I read a tweet that said it kind of makes it look like
Dems didn’t care about anything until Biden’s name
came up.

I wouldn’t go that far, but they sure left the door
open for that argument.