My last fundraiding call from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee didn’t go so well, what with the woman who was trying to get me to donate yelling at me that my preferance that Democrats cut off the war funding would end up with troops starving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They’ve got my number again, but the caller wasn’t as belligerant this time, just relentless. I told her right off the bat that my donations — apart from specific candidates — were as “off the table” as impeachment and that the spigots (such as they are) were closed to the DCCC until hearings began.
She tried to tell me that they’d just send an envelope for my $150 and that they were doing lots of good stuff, that there were investigations going on, that they’d gotten a minimum wage hike, etc.
In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee put together a study group to ascertain whether there were grounds to impeach President Richard Nixon. It took them less than a month to prepare their report. It’s been more than year since the Democrats took control of the House, and even that step — having a group of people look at and discuss the potential rationale for impeachment — hasn’t been undertaken.