… Earlier this month, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who remembers 1998 and the price Republicans paid for impeachment, made her position clear: “I’m not for impeachment. … Unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country. And he’s just not worth it.”
The operative word here is “bipartisan.” If Republicans learned a lesson in 1998, when they lost five House seats in a year they should have gained seats, it was that an impeachment process, seen as partisan by a divided electorate, is not likely to favor those pushing for the ouster of a duly elected president. CONT.
David Winston, Roll Call