Charles Schumer and Jon Kyl vie for an Academy Award nomination for supporting actor when they exchange long-distance nods of agreement that the next POTUS pick for SCOTUS will be routine, dull, unexciting, perhaps even anti-glamorous. The Democrats have exhausted their own nerves with the wacky healthcare dance after the shopping spree of the last fifteen months. The Senate Democrats have nothing left for a fight on SCOTUS. Also, there are at least two likely Democratic re-elects in the Senate who are in danger, Boxer and Specter, who would be plunged into the abyss with a screaming match over a "legislate from the bench" nominee. Examine the likely Democratic losses: Arkansas, North Dakota, Nevada, Illinois, Delaware, Indiana, with possible losses in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and California -- and there is a narrative that says the GOP takes the Senate as well as the House. The Democrats are deep inside a hardshell tortoise of a plan just now, hoping the thunder passes by. SCOTUS will be a snoozer. But then there is always the chance that POTUS will need to pick a fight because of some other policy crash.
Again, the storm will not pass by November. Wherever there's a Democrat running, the
Democrat will lose. Democrat losses will be so overwhelming, neither the best efforts of the unions and ACORN are likely to make a difference. The only thing of interest to watch for is how many moderate Republicans survive. It is they who will have to run against ill-financed conservatives and tea party types. My prediction is that moderate, reach-across-the-aisle Republican career politicians are likely to meet the same fate as Democrats in general.
POTUS will not pick someone who is acceptable to Republicans for the bench. He will pick a radical and attempt to have his majority in Congress ram it through. It will be a repeat of the health care cram-down. In the end, the Dems will get it done. They are still clinging to the belief that if the public sees results, they will vote Democrat in November. Though counterintuitive at this point, it is nevertheless what both POTUS and their leadership are telling them.
The Democrat's first instinct now is to back off. Obama won't let them. He will squeeze his Democrat majority for all it's worth. The smart ones know this. They have already decided to retire. The rest will be urged to remember that Obama won the election and thus deserves to have his nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy approved. Republicans, lacking in numbers, may finally put up a good fight but, in the end, they will fall short.
The problem with most of the Democrat Party today is that they’re in denial. They will not admit that their party has been hijacked by wildly radical elements. Neither do they understand that the American people are aware of it and that they are singularly determined to do something about it.
Democrats are living in an echo chamber. They talk to each other and they talk to the main stream press. They still think that the opposition is limited to a handful of Rush Limbaugh listeners. The money from cash rich foundations is still coming in. They do not recognize the grass roots tsunami that’s building to sweep them away.
The White House knows it, but doesn’t care. For them, November is still centuries away. They’ve got a lot planned between then and now and they will push for all of it. The more outrage and chaos they can create, the better it suits them. It’s all about breaking the nerve of the American people; it’s about lighting fuses so, by the time November arrives, POTUS will be able to declare a national emergency and postpone elections indefinitely.
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Peter as always, great post. I agree one hundred percent that President Obama is not going to let up with pushing his Socialist agenda. I believe he fooled a lot of people with his soft spoken demeanor when he was elected President. Since he has been in office all he does is demonize the rich and big business. As if the wealthy are somehow responsible for all the countries woes. The Class Warfare Rhetoric only works for so long because most people see through it after awhile. Many people I speak to are extremely unhappy with what is going on and I believe the Democrats will be swept out of office in the November elections. All of these Keynesian policies which the POTUS and the Democrats have been pushing since last year cannot possibly work in the long run. Keynesian Economics was placed into the ash heap of history years ago. Lets hope for real change this coming November!