It is obvious at this point that Pelosi is not going to change her tune about impeachment (see Lisa Mascaro's "Speaker Nancy Pelosi remains cautious on impeachment talk"). A reading of Mueller's statement reveals that he is not urging congress to begin impeachment proceedings; rather, he says that the special counsel cannot bring the president to justice for obstructing justice: “[T]he Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting President of wrongdoing.”
That's it. Not much of a ringing endorsement of all the breathless reporting in the mainstream media about Trump being a Kremlin stooge. Even the truly odious Adam Schiff, singing from the Pelosi hymn book, declines to support impeachment.
Mueller does uphold the basic narrative though. He asserts Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Mueller just couldn't uncover any evidence that the Trump campaign worked with Russian agents, and he doesn't absolve the president of wrongdoing for impeding his investigation.
So basically we are back to where we started, which is nowhere. Democrats concocted a "stab in the back" hypothesis to explain Trump's victory. But they never bothered to explain how revealing Hillary's speech to Goldman Sachs or the DNC's systematic efforts to torpedo Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign or the fake Facebook accounts illuminating the Clinton record on criminal justice actually led to her loss of the White House. To do so would be to admit that their candidate is truly horrible and didn't deserve to be anointed.
Now the Democratic rank'n'file feel set adrift. They have been told to resist, to fight the stab in the back, but now their leaders refuse to fight.
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