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In reply to the discussion: Obama asked one question in meeting with McConnell and Grassley @ Scalia replacement [View all]Hekate
(90,824 posts)...and many of us Obama-watchers find that a delicious spectacle. What should he spell it out when it's so damn obvious to Americans? Why should he play the Angry Black Man when being as cool as ice drives the opposition nuts?
The GOP in the Senate has backed itself into a corner. There are any number of people to nominate who would be perfectly acceptable on a bipartisan basis IF the GOP was not batshit crazy. All Obama has to do is keep suggesting these people -- not even nominating, just suggesting -- and the situation gets worse and worse for the Senate GOP.
He knows, we all know, that it is ALL in the hands of the Senate. Come hell or high water, the president may not be able to get a single solitary candidate even considered, and it won't be his doing. He's making that abundantly clear.
He looks good. They look like shit.