I’m going to give you some news right now because I haven’t said this to any press person before,” Pelosi said. And he’s just not worth it.”It was indeed newsworthy when The Washington Post Magazine published those comments Monday. None of which is to say that Pelosi does not intend to use her Democratic House majority to hold Trump accountable. Pelosi knows that a partisan rush to impeachment raises the risk of alienating voters in those moderate parts of the country. One of the things that makes an ill-considered gambit to remove Trump “just not worth it,” in Pelosi’s words, is the opportunity cost.

Source: Washington Post March 12, 2019 22:33 UTC