The White House Needs an Impeachment Strategy

The White House Needs an Impeachment Strategy

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/time-for-the-white-house-and-congressional-republicans-to-get-serious-on-impeachment/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-10-29&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Excerpt: Kevin McCarthy, the leader of the GOP minority in the House, reacted to Speaker Pelosi’s reversal on conducting a vote to endorse the inquiry by arguing that it shows awareness that the impeachment gambit has always been illegitimate. As National Review’s Mairead McArdle notes, McCarthy says the process was “botched from the start.” Maybe . . . but a week or two from now, that’s not going to matter. Once we have both public hearings and public disclosure of transcripts from the prior, secret interviews, Americans are simply not going to care about the irregularities in the inquiry up to this point. Again, even without more transparency, the polls have been moving in the Democrats’ favor. That is, the attack on the process mounted by the president’s allies is already losing traction; soon it will become irrelevant. The public will not be moved by process arguments as long as the Democrats afford the president and the minority a decent opportunity to refute allegations and oppose articles of impeachment. The president is not going to win this by ranting that he has been subjected to Star Chamber tactics. He is going to have to win it on the merits. [This argument makes a lot of sense though it isn't very comforting. Ron P.]