Is the solid Democratic front in favor impeachment beginning to crumble?  It's probably more correct to say that it never existed at all. We got two clear signs this week that rank-and-file enthusiasm for the Pelosi/Schiff effort to rid the country of the Orange Menace is, shall we say, well controlled. New Jersey Democrat Jeff Van Drew stated that he is likely to vote against Pelosi's resolution to "formalize" the impeachment inquiry when it comes up Thursday, or Friday, or sometime before the end of the Holocene. Van Drew told NBC reporter Alex Moe that "I would imagine that I'm not voting for it."  To go straight to the point, Van Drew's district was won by none other than Donald Trump in 2016, and Van Drew knows exactly which side his political toast is buttered on — that is, the one that hits the ground when dropped. There are evidently at least a dozen other Democratic reps in much the same...(Read Full Post)