McConnell knows a sucker's play when he sees one. The Democrats can investigate and subpoena and call witnesses and gather evidence and keep this in the media, on their terms, until November. They can dominate the news cycle with this thing from now until the end of time because the Trump administration is too stupid to not rise to the bait. The House is now calling the shots and can make this the one and only litmus test: do you stand with the corrupt president?

Didja see that bit where he threw Obama under the bus before he had fuckall to say about Trump? And then went back to the Clinton Greatest Hits to imply that Afghanistan has always been the Democrats' fault? He'd love to capture any part of the base that isn't shit-house-rat crazy. Schiff and Pelosi are making a play where Moscow Mitch's winning play is to call for impeachment sooner rather than later so it's out of the way of the elections. The play is to argue that McConnell is attempting to suppress the will of the American people at the expense of the great state of Kentucky and hoist him on his own petard.