Nancy Pelosi's reluctance to impose total "impeachment" becomes intolerable.

The difference between the two modern American political parties may not be better summed up than this: Republicans start from the presumption that "treason" and "espionage" will be pursued without proof, while the Democrats leave the country. presumption they may have found that further investigation was warranted. Donald Trump is at the head of the anarchic gatherings in the stadium chanting "Lock them up" without ever specifying who committed what alleged crime. Democrats, faced with a case of obstruction of justice, if it is not a legal recommendation against the prosecution of a sitting president, insist that they can not initiate impeachment proceedings as they need to collect more information. Republicans who stand two inches from a Seurat painting find that a still life is among the crimes committed, while Democrats standing six feet back are certain that a single point blue would help them to see the whole picture.

This is not a new problem. Those of us who feared that the Mueller report would ever be the torch of tobacco, the Democrats dreamed of advancing, warned that limiting access to criminal obstruction and Illegal "collusion" necessarily blocked a wide range of criminal and unworkable behavior by the president and his confederates. Last week, Walter Dellinger made the same observation about the strange short-sightedness of Democrats around the new Holy Grail: an unedited Mueller report. As the former solicitor general said:

The extraordinary investigation of 2,800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants and two years of investigation of Mueller allowed to fully establish not only the crimes, but also the betrayal of the president's office : failure of the defense of the electoral system against foreign attacks and interference in the rule of law. Congress does not need to read more to announce what is clear from what it should have read.

For Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, however, individual political calculation continues to prevail over the rule of law. This position becomes more and more untenable, as cracks appear on the Democratic Front and even a Republican Congressman is able to point out what is before us all. "Mueller's report reveals that President Trump has engaged in specific actions and behavior that meets the threshold of indictment," said GOP representative Justin Amash over the weekend. . Amash understands what is obvious to anyone who reads the Mueller report in good faith: we have enough data to name and investigate the crime. Amash was joined by a handful of renegade Democrats who finally said "we know enough." If it's not enough to dismiss, at least enough to launch investigation.

Democrats in power claim to be convinced and missing courage.

The problem with democratic pointillism is that, if congressional Democrats really refuse to see the big picture, after the staggering evidence presented in the Mueller report, daily reports of serious cases of financial malpractice and corruption, as well as the growing refusal of the administration to access any form of Under the supervision of Congress, one must ask what hypothetical red dot or what yellow smear could persuade them that, uh, crimes. Perhaps some beliefs in Trump's infamous claim that he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot a man without losing his support have frightened the Democrats to the point of paralyzing him. The reality is that the Democrats on the Hill know what a criminal obstruction looks like – they are too terrified to say so.

The other problem with democratic pointillism is that House Democrats want to look like measured and rational adults in the face of the biggest toddler crisis ever seen in presidential history, in which the Constitution is transformed layer. But, as all parents or even uncertified Red Cross guards will say, every time you refuse to impose consequences, you move a little more the line of acceptable behavior. Mueller himself tries to appear measured and rational by refusing to testify. To look adult and rational in the face of abject madness is not always synonymous with courage, especially when the other party screams TRASON and LOCK THEM UP and INVESTIGATE THE INVESTIGATORS.

Democrats who say they want to focus on the economy, the 2020 elections or other problems of the kitchen table, are yielding more and more authority to reckless and arrogant president power. By not attaching any real consequence, they basically say to the country that Steven Mnuchin should continue to challenge a summons to the House of Tax Archives of President and Donald McGahn should continue to refuse to testify for obstruction of justice. By yielding this power to a president who believes himself all-powerful, they simply do it.

"But wait!" Could say democratic leadership, taking a step closer to painting. "You miss the point." What is the inconvenience of these protracted judicial struggles provoked by what is in itself an impenetrable conduct? (See Article III of the articles on the dismissal of Nixon.) The disadvantage is that the president can do virtually nothing to trigger an impeachment proceeding. Something that Trump sees, loves and will trust in his next actions.

Democrats in power claim to be convinced and lack courage. The president is anarchist and corrupt and surrounds himself with the mechanisms of anarchy and corruption. These same democrats are waiting for the complete image that faces them to emerge. Each step closer allows them to miss the big picture, to distort the story and to pursue an end more and more elusive. If the public is not yet with them, it is because he does not have to spend all the day in a museum and he must present the picture where he lives. Congressional Democrats must repaint the painting that is directly presented to them. It should not be complicated. This proves beyond their competence.