Here's a good take on the situation. Nancy can hide but she can't runAs of Friday, Pelosi was still withholding the articles of impeachmentfrom the Senate. She is making demands that the Senate trial be run in aparticular way, even though the California Democrat is not a senator and has noconstitutional role in shaping the trial.
“Their turn is over,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republicanfrom Kentucky. “They’ve done enough damage. It’s the Senate’s turn now torender sober judgment.” And by that, he means the Senate will hear from impeachmentmanagers like they did during Bill Clinton's impeachment, and then they willpromptly vote to acquit.
Pelosi lashed out in response: “Today, Leader McConnell made clear that he willfeebly comply with President Trump’s cover-up of his abuses of power and be anaccomplice to that cover-up.
But this is just the voice of the loser. What is going on between herand McConnell is not a “standoff” or an “impasse,” as the media would have youbelieve. It is a straight-up defeat for House Democrats.
Having hastily impeached without gathering the requisite evidence and testimonythat they are now demanding after-the-fact, Democrats are left with no goodchoices. They hardly sound credible whining that the Senate needs to hear froma bunch of new witnesses — after all, they didn’t need any of those witnessesto impeach, did they?
If House Democrats send the impeachment to the Senate to be voted down,then they will look weak. Trump will spend the next 10 months running around,claiming that he has been vindicated. If House Democrats instead chicken outand swallow their own articles of impeachment, then they also lose. McConnellwill shrug and smirk while Trump spends the next 10 months crowing about howthey tried to impeach him but lacked the guts to make their case.
