In this post not long ago, we said…
So…no matter who Barack Obama nominates to the Supreme Court, we're going to hear that the nominee is a Dangerous Soviet Socialist Nazi Radical…and I'm thinking he oughta nominate a Dangerous Soviet Socialist Nazi Radical. I mean, they're going to say that anyway so why not? And maybe one or two of them will figure out what a Socialist really is. The new definition seems to be any Democrat who wins an election.
Today, I see the following over on Talking Points Memo…
President Obama thinks Republicans will engage in a full battle over his Supreme Court nominee regardless of the person's ideological leanings, and in some ways "that realization is liberating for the president" to choose whomever he pleases, an administration official told TPMDC.
You get the feeling Republicans are painting themselves into a corner with this "No, no, no" stuff? That was pretty much what David Frum was saying; that they could have made a deal that would have made the Health Care Bill less onerous to them…but they decided to go for broke and wound up broke. And maybe they're about to make the same mistake with the next Supreme Court nominee.