Now President Obama Must Play It Cool While the Republican Party Walks Off a Cliff
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a42397/supreme-court-republicans-blocking/
Remember just Tuesday morning, when we were discussing how Republican senators in purplish states were taking a big gamble if they agreed to stonewall the president's constitutional duty to appoint a replacement for Antonin Scalia?...
The president's next move is obvious.
He finds the most ridiculously qualified candidate he can find among whatever demographic or social group is most disadvantageous to the Republicans, and he puts that candidate up as quickly as possible. He does event after event, with the candidate by his side. He campaigns for Senate candidates in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Illinois, all places with vulnerable Republican incumbents, and he brings the nominee along with him.
To elect a Democratic president in the fall is to elect this wonderfully qualified person, a credit to the American dream and to our greatness as a people, to the Supreme Court as well. Could it be that the Republican Party's capacity to walk in lockstep off a cliff–known to medical science as The Schiavo Syndrome–has now surpassed the Democratic Party's capacity to step on its own dick when presented with a political opportunity? If the president has brought about that turn of events, his whole two terms have been worth electing him in the first place.
