The GOP leadership are losing their minds today, re: Holding the Senate

[onehandle]

The GOP has essentially given up on winning the Presidency. They are going to put the big bucks into holding Congress.

Now Scalia is dead and Obama is going to put up a candidate that the Senate says 'he doesn't have a right to' and will block until Obama leaves office.

This is the attitude that will be in headlines for the rest of the year.

They are going lose the Senate. We are going to win the White House, and we are going to gain House seats, if not the House itself.

[JFKDem62]

1. I think so

The Republican Party seems to have died.

[DFW]

2. I think we don't get the House back for at least 2 cycles unless we end Gerrymandering

Of course, a friendly Supreme Court could accelerate that, which is why it is so important for Obama to start the process like yesterday, and put the Republican Senate in an impossible situation. Refuse to confirm, or even refuse to hold confirmation hearings, or obstruct the nomination, and every Republican candidate/incumbent gets hit with it every day for the rest of the campaign season. On the other hand, if they vote to confirm, it would be like the Dodo bird voting to be hunted into extinction.

[Paulie]

3. After W the best hope of causing the most pain, suffering and destruction

Is maintaining Congress in complete uselessness. That is the R goal.

I really do think it was the banishment of pork/ear marks that turned congress into the monster it is. The sane leadership had no way to punish the crazies so the billionaires were able to take full advantage of the situation.

[n2doc]

4. Obama is going to trap them

He will nominate a perfectly qualified judicial moderate and let them hang themselves.

It will be interesting to see what happens after november, if Dems recapture the Senate and keep the WH, if they decide that Obama's choice is better than what they might get with a new set of senators and President.