"They did too many things. Too many people know about it. There is no way to keep it quiet. The time is going to come when impeachment is going to hit this Congress and we better be ready for it."

—House Majority Leader Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. to Speaker Carl Albert, January, 1973, as reported in How The Good Guys Finally Won by Jimmy Breslin.

Here is a quote from the Wednesday's Washington Post.

Speaking to reporters Tuesday, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) said Trump was “conducting one of the biggest coverups of any administration in the history of the United States,” but then said of impeachment, “I don’t think we’re there at this point in time.” Hoyer said he doubted there was any Democrat “who probably wouldn’t in their gut say, ‘You know, he’s done some things that probably justify impeachment.’ ”

He then added that “the majority of Democrats continue to believe that we need to continue to pursue the avenue that we’ve been on. . . . And if the facts lead us to a broader action, so be it.”

Look between the lines of all that Beltway weaselspeak. See all the tiny white flags waving? Steny Hoyer is so deeply a part of the political establishment that he probably sleeps every night atop a pedestal in Statuary Hall. And, clearly, his resistance is crumbling into tiny flakes and blowing away on the fresh spring breezes.

This president* is going to be impeached by the House of Representatives. It is now unavoidable. He's done too many things and too many people know about them. This is going to be one helluva summer. And it's building now like a thunderstorm over the mountains, and there's no way to stop it.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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