"Impeachment Is Over (if you want it...)"

"Extending of the Olive Branch"

Internet legal corridors are alive this morning, analyzing Speaker Nancy Pelosi's latest move to stall, or perhaps never bring, the now-passed House of Representative Articles of Impeachment to trial in the Senate. Big-time Constitutional confusion over procedure and process: Heaven knows, even the legal beagles do not relish defining/creating the rules at play, which are ultimately irrelevant this go-around since we all know how the final score will come out after the Senate vote...

If this were a Court case, the clerks would be instructed to work overtime to figure out a way to deny hearing it, I suspect.

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An Internet pundit asks:

Let's assume the Senate will do nothing until the House managers come forward to present their case. If they never do so, what happens? Do the people care? Is "impeachment" degraded into weird futile swatting at the President?

Proper political spin:
Moral victory for the Democrats. Let them have their win...

The party gets to go down in history as having bi-partisanly impeached President Trump in the House. Like the two other presidents: impeachment, but of no consequence. Still, politically, this is what the all-but-extreme Dems wanted, expected, and "won": the moral victory, the historical asterisk, the presidential ... stain.

But the adventure necessarily ends here.

It's the "bad ass" brand:
no real consequence, no change, just complaining and then celebrating in an overdone fashion a victory over "the Man". But the Man remains standing -- the dude abides -- while the self-proclaimed "bad asses" bunch, maybe winning a public kiss for their efforts, maybe strutting off stage after a dramatic mic drop, maybe laying in rotunda after giving the country's voters a big thumbs-down on matters much later corrected in the courts, for those still keeping track of long-term results and drawing conclusions from consequences...

The Dems have their brand: for so many, this is what an artificial victory smells like. This is the morning-after, the time of looking in the mirror, and only belatedly contemplating: What have we done? What happens now?

Let them up easy, I say.
Help them up, even, from their reclining positions to finding their feet...

It will be less costly to the taxpayers to end it all here -- "Impeachment Over (if you want it...)" And politically, what a gracious gift for the new Republicans to share with the nations.