I’m not saying that. My point is that this isn’t a good argument FOR taking control of the senate. Any argument should be focused totally on the SCOTUS. That can be argued pretty well.
But the idea that the GOP are going to make Obama look stupid though, flies in the face of everything we have seen since... forever.
The Republican Party can’t focus their 2014 Senate message on the U.S. Supreme Court because they know damn well that they aren’t going to hold up any of Barack Obama’s nominees.
The decisions on any SCOTUS nomination rests with the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Majority Leader. They can shape the debate, apply the rules of the Senate to their advantage, and control the timing. Those things have an enormous impact on the final outcome.