House Democrats are sort of between the devil and the deep blue sea at this point.

They’ve so far failed to prove their case to the American people in terms of any impeachable offense with regard to Ukraine.

But if they vote on it now, it basically gets exposed and booted in the Senate. The Senate, in the control of Republicans, will call all the witnesses who the House Democrats refused to call – Rep. Adam Schiff, the whistleblower who is believed to be Eric Ciaramella, Hunter Biden and more.

So now they’re in a pickle of their own creation.

So what are they going to do? It sounds like they intend to punt.

Fox’s Chad Pergram dropped some news as to their intentions.

1) House Intelligence Cmte Democrats have now completed their impeachment report. Members of the committee could go to the secure area at the Capitol at 6 pm et to begin reviewing the report. But most members with whom Fox spoke indicated they would review the report tomorrow.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 3, 2019

2) Intel Cmte meets in closed-door session Tuesday at 6 pm et to vote on releasing impeachment rpt. We could get the full rpt after 7 pm et or later. One mbr of the cmte told Fox they wouldn’t review the rpt today – so they could deny they were responsible for leaking the report

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 3, 2019

3) Intel Cmte GOPers have until the end of the day Thursday to add their views to the impeachment report. The Intelligence Committee will then send the report to the Judiciary Committee. Note, that will come a day after the open hearing by the Judiciary Cmte Wednesday morning.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 3, 2019

4) The White House has said it won’t participate in the Wednesday hearing. But today I asked – a senior administration source if officials may try to work out an in-between or half measure for the committee. I was told "stay tuned."

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 3, 2019

5) It is unclear if Wednesday’s hrng will be the final Judiciary Committee impeachment hrng. It’s possible that panel – and even others – could hold impeachment hearings. Fox was told today that even the House Intelligence Cmte could continue to conduct closed-door depositions.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 3, 2019

So they’re kicking it to the Judiciary Committee who was supposed to handle it to begin with and may just continue to hold hearings. The hearing on Wednesday with four professors who aren’t fact witnesses, who it just sounds like will be asked to offer their legal insight into the matter. That’s ridiculous. But they still need to put something out to shine up the mess they have to look like something.

Then they can spend a lot of time talking and deciding on appropriate charges.

6) Impeachment falls under the jurisdiction of the Judiciary panel. At some point, the Judiciary Committee will move to a series of “markup” sessions where members debate and actually write/vote on articles of impeachment. That process could consume several days.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 3, 2019

8) The Judiciary Committee wrote five articles of impeachment for President Nixon in 1974, but only approved three. The full House approved two of the four articles of impeachment crafted for President Clinton in 1998.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 3, 2019

9) Unclear when Dems could try to put impeachment on the flr. Dems today announced the Hse will remain in session almost until Christmas. Remember the House voted to impeach President Clinton on the Saturday before Christmas in 1998. We could have a similar scenario this round.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 3, 2019

10) Do Democrats have the votes for impeachment? Pelosi is a master at reading her caucus. If Pelosi has the votes she’ll likely give the green light to impeach on the floor. If Pelosi doesn’t have the votes impeachment could wait – conceivably until the New Year.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 3, 2019

This might be the real indicator right here:

11) A member of Pelosi’s leadership team today told Fox that the backlog of bills up this month in the House “works against” a December impeachment vote. And the Democrat noted that impeachment “doesn’t fit the holiday spirit.” That means impeachment could wait until 2020.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 3, 2019

“Not in the holiday spirit?” Translation: we got nothing and we’re probably going to punt until January. So they’re going to try to stretch it out as long as they can, milk it for what they can get, probably into next year. Will they even take a vote knowing once they do, it goes to the Senate with all the fun awaiting it there? And then senators would be required to stay in D.C. for hearings (and those running for president can’t campaign).

Democrats bought this mess. Hopefully, it backfires big time at the ballot box.