Democrats may just be learning that always being on the 20% side of an 80/20 issue isn't the best place to be. Not if they're going to succeed in politics beyond their rather out of touch, Trump-hating, progressive, base.
The Detroit News: House shelves effort to impeach Trump over Iran strikes
As the strikes on Iran were impressively successful, effective, popular, and didn't cause World War III to break out, impeachment is off the table.
Someone likely also explained to the radical Dems pushing the matter that impeaching Trump for doing what Obama and other Democrat Presidents had regularly done would be a tad embarrassing should the matter move on to a hearing.
After all, Democrat Presidents had no problem using military action without Congressional Authorization, and in the case of Obama it was a whole lotta unauthorized military action. Obama had over 25,000 bombs dropped without Congressional authorization. Kinda hard to impeach Trump for doing that which the great Democrat light bringer did to a far, far greater (and much less successful) extent - and for which Democrats had supported him doing even as the same ones seek Trump's impeachment for less. Well, if the Dem politicos didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all, would they?
On top of that, as presidents, including future Democrat presidents, may need to use force without congressional Authorization in the future, this was likely not a winning move.
Good on Democrats to realize there's at least one 20/80 hill of theirs that they're not willing to die on.
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