[grania]

If Obama picks someone who's really impressive and does not have a history of making politically biased decisions, the 'pubs should accept the person. They could take credit for forcing Obama to make a responsible decision for a change.

If it's another affirmative action low quality hack, then block it.

[xsmommy]

No, they really shouldn’t. The dems would never allow it were the roles reversed and republicans get screwed every time we try to be the REASONABLE and RESPONSIBLE ones, every single time.
No one on his short list is impressive. the Sri guy has ZERO paper record, has published nothing, written nothing, has no views. oh, ok, so let’s let a blank slate, nominated by the most politically partisan president in recent history, go through just because we have nothing to point to, to indicate bias.

[Verginius Rufus]

He can pick someone who looks impressive but we can be sure he will pick someone who will be a reliable vote for the liberal majority of judicial activists.

Never in recent history (at least since before 1900) has a President selected a Supreme Court justice in the final year of his term when the Senate was in control of the other party...and it has only been since the 1930s that judicial ideology became the paramount decision. This would be an unparalleled chance to change the overall ideological balance on the Court perhaps for decades.

[immadashell]

They could take credit for forcing Obama to make a responsible decision for a change.

Obama making a responsible decision? Not in the realm of reality.