I hate to say this, but that is going to become an evergreen quote for the next couple of years, at least.
There are going to be a number of situations where the House is going to need to invoke impeachment investigations in order to get certain material or information (the GJ testimonies related to the unreleased Mueller report perhaps being the first).
And that’s the chess board laid out right now. Pelosi is trying to figure out how not to invoke impeachment, while building an airtight case, and the Administration is trying to figure out how to keep her from getting an airtight case without invoking the "I"word.
If these are really dedicated public servants then they should know how to pass a security clearance review without an assist. Someone who just came two years ago to work in Trump’s administration hasn’t put in the time to be called a “dedicated public” servant.
As I seem to remember, The House voted to hold Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. Eric Holder was Attorney General at the time. The Attorney General is the person who runs the DOJ. Needless to say, the DOJ did not prosecute. I think the net result was that Holder eventually got a hand-crafted certificate of contempt, suitable for framing. I imagine he treasures it to this day because if ever a Congress deserved contempt, that one (the Tea Party Congress elected in 2010) did.
Whistleblower protection laws are as hilarious as Republicans standing for law and order. I don’t own any weapons except a few kitchen knives and a hatchet. Oh and I do have a pitchfork. But I’m fat and will have a hard time trying to get over the fence around what Lincoln referred to as the People’s House. Plus those snipers vs my pitchfork. But someday, with enough numbers, I’d certainly rush the place. That day is coming, I think.
You neglected to mention that President Trump has also extricated the United States from dozens of those entangling alliances that George Washington warned us about. This includes the Universal Postal Union, one of the world’s oldest international organizations, which is a nefarious plot to force our postal service to deliver mail with other countries’ stamps on it.
Also left out was the fact that President Trump has paid off the national debt at ten cents on the dollar, saving the United States almost $20 trillion. All of the money has been put into subsidies for the nation’s beleaguered soybean farmers.
