Don't Blink Or You'll Miss It

Decades ago we moved to Colebrook, NH. Colebrook is the last stop on the bus line - the place you go to walk to the edge of the world and look off.

Main Street was 2 blocks long. If you were driving to Colebrook for the first time and stopped at a gas station outside of town and asked for directions how to get there, those directions would conclude with, "don't blink or you'll miss it."

After Mueller testified on Wednesday, Pelosi appeared for a press conference with Nadler, Schiff and Cummings in check. Pelosi, who had no role in the day's dramas, was ready to take a bow and share her vision for where we go from here.

"My position has always been, whatever decision we made in that regard would have to be with our strongest possible hand, and we still have some matters outstanding in the courts," Pelosi said, arguing that Democrats needed more information before considering impeachment.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/24/pelosi-nadler-rebuff-impeachment-mueller-hearing-1432925

"House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler pushed to launch impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump during a closed-door meeting Wednesday, only to be rebuffed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, according to four sources familiar with the discussions."

Two days later, Nadler held a press conference attended by Judiciary Committee members. Several members said the Committee has begun an Impeachment inquiry. When asked if he agrees that the committee is in an impeachment investigation, Nadler replied, “In effect.” Read the story it's all there.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-impeachment-house-judiciary-committee_n_5d3b3952e4b0a6d6373f162a

That wasn't the only strange thing that happened after the hearings. A lot of news reports initially criticized Mueller's performance and said that the hearings had not moved the needle toward Impeachment.

Here are some of the early stories:

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/454640-mueller-testimony-fails-to-move-needle-on-impeachment

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/454720-muellers-blockbuster-appearance-turned-into-bomb-of-performance

https://news.yahoo.com/muellers-testimony-didnt-move-us-213013129.html

So what happened? Did we blink? Did we miss something?

I thought Mueller did a powerful job.

Mueller was truckin'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pafY6sZt0FE

Apparently I was not alone. After the hearings 5 more House Democrats, Including Katherine Clark, came out calling for Impeachment hearings.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/highest-ranking-house-democrat-yet-calls-impeachment-trump-n1034826

The phones in the House began ringing. People started going on social media calling for demonstrations. The news reports changed. Huh?

What happened? Mueller did not say anything that wasn't in his original report. We had all this info the day Barr released the redacted version to the public on April 18th and that was 3 whole months ago.

Justin Amash said all this on May 18th.

There wasn't a majority of House members calling for Impeachment hearings yesterday, but Pelosi said that would be necessary before any Impeachment hearings could start. There were only 100 Democrats and 1 Republican in favor of Impeachment hearings yesterday.

The Senate Republicans are still as apt to vote to acquit Trump in a trial as they have been all along.

According to Politico, only 37% of voters support Impeachment hearings.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/26/poll-impeachment-mueller-1437596

Pelosi had said there would be no Impeachment hearings until all that changed.

Wait, there's more. Pelosi did a photo op with AOC yesterday. Yep, now they're best buds.

AOC has been calling for Impeachment hearings all along.

So here's what I think happened. A lot of us kept daily pressure on Pelosi and the House Democrats to start Impeachment hearings. We humiliated Pelosi for blocking them. We humiliated House Democrats for not standing up to her. We threatened marches and sit-ins. We made our voices heard.

Pelosi wielded power in the House. House members acquiesced to her. The MSM agreed with her. Her trolls came after those of us who dared to question her - she knows more than we do - she's smarter than us - she's got more experience - she plays three dimensional chess - she knows what's she's doing. 

So did we blink, no! We persevered! And, we need to keep persevering. The real power in this country rests in the hands of the people and we must never, ever allow anyone to tell us different. We must never surrender it or let someone take it from us.

I think Pelosi was told to get on board or get left behind by the Democratic Caucus in the House. That was the message we sent them. That was the message they gave her.

It's a whole new day! Today we begin in earnest.

Holy Moly!