Time to move on?

While Democrats in Congress are debating to impeach or not to impeach, or even if impeachment must happen, when, Mitch McConnell has offered advice,

“Well, look, I think it’s time to move on. This investigation was about collusion, there’s no collusion, no charges brought against the president on anything else, and I think the American people have had quite enough of it.”

Apparently, he hadn’t read the report as on page 2 of the introduction to Volume 1 it clearly states,

“In evaluating whether evidence about collective action of multiple individuals constituted a crime, we applied the framework of conspiracy law, not the concept of “collusion”. In so doing, the Office recognized that the word “collud[e]” as use in communications with the Acting Attorney General confirming certain aspects of the investigation’s scope and that the term has frequently been invoked in public reporting about the investigation. But collusion is not a specific offense or theory of liability found in United States Code, nor is it a term of art in federal criminal law. For those reasons, the Office’s focus in analyzing questions of joint criminal liability was on conspiracy as defined in federal law.”

Mueller was not looking for collusion.

 

In contrast, Elizabeth Warren tweeted,

“The severity of this misconduct demands that elected officials in both parties set aside political considerations and do their constitutional duty.”

Speaker Nancy Pelosi would prefer a slow but deliberate process to ensure any action is on firm ground, not subject to loss by avoidable error.

“While our views range from proceeding to investigate the findings of the Mueller report or proceeding directly to impeachment, we all firmly agree that we should proceed down a path of finding the truth. It is also important to know that the facts regarding holding the President accountable can be gained outside of impeachment hearings.”

But you have to love McConnell’s advice to move on in light of the repeated Hillary Clinton/Benghazi hearings each one succeeding the failed one before it.

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