Since then, the rotting corpse has only become stinkier. Even the allegation that Trump tried to recruit the president of Ukraine to help him to slander a political opponent has not been sufficient to move Speaker Pelosi.
The fact that Democratic leaders are content to wait until the election only testifies to the impossibility of impeachment. If not Trump, who? To what level of criminality and incompetence does a President have to rise to be impeached.
Democracy is dead and partisanship killed it.
While it's true that impeachment may fail to be successful, as the Republicans hold a majority in the Senate, which must vote to remove the President after articles of impeachment are passed by the House, if any Senator can vote for acquittal after a public airing of the facts, then truely the system is permanently broken.
That fewer Republicans have publicly disavowed this President astounds me. I can't imagine standing by any party leader who does the kinds of things that Trump does.
What's worse is that any future President must know that he (she) will have full reign to indulge their worst instincts when in office. There are no checks and balances as long as the President's party holds one of the chambers of Congress.
Further, the packing of the courts by ideologues can only block the possibility of progressive legislation coming from the legislative branch in the future. However, the worse possibility is that the courts will permit the erosion of rights as in Citizens United that gives money an even bigger voice in policy decisions affecting the actual human citizens.
If Republicans came out and said that what they really fear is a President Pence, then I might have some sympathy, but this continued fawning over a truly mad leader is just unbearable.
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