Opinion: Nancy Pelosi just blew it on impeachment. Here’s how to get it right.
By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 12 at 10:18 AM In her first few months as House speaker, Nancy Pelosi has managed two big challenges of the Trump era with great skill. Pelosi forged messy consensus on a resolution condemning all forms of bigotry, in an area where Trumpian extremes roiled her conference, demanding an unusually ambitious response to one member’s offenses.
Some Democrats are pushing back. Rep. David Cicilline noted: “If the facts require us to initiate removing the president, we are obligated to do it.” Rep. Jamie Raskin criticized Pelosi’s suggestion that Trump is not “worth” impeaching: “The question is whether the republic is worth it.” First, there is no need for Pelosi to declare that she’s not for impeachment in the present, when it would be a lot more salutary to say this is simply premature, and that in the end, the right course of action will be determined by the facts, and leave it at that.
You might argue that Pelosi’s comments do leave open this possibility. But she still muddled the issue by declaring a personal preference on the outcome, creating the impression that we already have enough information to make that decision, while failing to clarify how this is a process.
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