Holding him accountable

Melissa McEwan of Shakesville noticed that the witnesses that have been cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller – Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos, Michael Cohen – seem to be getting off quit easy. Mueller recommends Michael Flynn not receive any jail time, even though in normal times his actions would be considered treason.

Then McEwan wrote:

At this point, I suspect that the biggest role the Mueller investigation has to play is to create the public rationale for Senate Republicans to vote to impeach, so they can install Pence.

As I've previously speculated, when Trump isn't of use to them anymore, they'll just get rid of him in exchange for Pence. And then they'll claim to be heroes for holding their own president accountable.

It would really be something if House Democrats, newly the majority again, drafted articles of impeachment against Trump, and Senate Republicans "reluctantly" supported the measure, but assured their base it was the right thing to do, meanwhile garnering extraordinary headlines about being ethical patriots, as they move to install an authoritarian dominionist who was on his way to losing his reelection bid for the governorship of Indiana when Manafort plucked him from the precipice of obscurity to be second in line to a dude colluding with the Russians to capture the White House.

In a month and a half, Pence can assume the presidency and still run for two more full times. Let's see what happens then.

Perhaps that is why Nancy Pelosi is saying impeachment is off the table?