Ex-GOP congressman to Democrats: Gear up to impeach Trump. It's your constitutional duty.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib was right to say impeachment of President Donald Trump should be on the table. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer should acknowledge the same. They should do so now, repeatedly, and regardless of the status of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. They should own the message and set the narrative for the nation.

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Democratic congressional leaders should remind the American people of this daily, consistently reiterating that the bar for impeachment has already been met and that Trump is constitutionally compromised. Democratic congressional leaders should aggressively present Trump as an impeachable president unworthy of being approached as a constitutionally respected peer.

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Importantly, neither the Southern District of New York matter nor the president’s national security actions are part of Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. For congressional Democrats to defer action on the above until completion of the Mueller report is simply a misleading non sequitur born of political convenience and 2020 trepidation rather than acceptance of a sacred constitutional responsibility.

These are extraordinary times. They must be confronted as such. To do otherwise — to deal constructively with this president as a credible political leader — only normalizes for all of history the damage he has already wrought upon the presidency and the nation. Traditional oversight hearings are simply insufficient. Discussion of impeachment should be seriously presented to the American people now by Pelosi and Schumer. And in so doing, they will set a narrative that relegates this president to one deserving only dishonor.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/01/08/trump-national-crisis-democrats-prepare-america-impeachment-column/2501089002/

Impeachment proceedings should not be initiated for political reasons. Likewise, they should not be avoided for political reasons.