Subject: Supreme Court fight
From: Brent Budowsky <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 01:55:20 +0000

To the degree Republicans obstruct any Obama nominee, this gives Democrats an opportunity to demonize the entire GOP Congress as a class and say this is why 75% of Americans have contempt for Congress, despise gridlock, hate hyperpartisanship and deplore obstruction.  It is fortuitous that in the Senate elections most of the incumbents running for reelection are GOP.

I have been looking for this opportunity, which is not as easy as it sounds, but this would be a gift to de-brand the entire Republican party as a whole and mobilize the grassroots Democrats en masse for a sustained period.

Either the DNC could run a wave of television ads attacking the Republicans for this.  Even better, someone could set up a Save American Justice committee, raise funds, and run saturation ads.

If Republicans want to make the Supreme Court dysfunctional for a year, we can turn every Republican Senator into Ted Cruz and win a big Senate campaign victory in November.  Everything the public hates about Washington is embodied by Republicans here.

If Obama nominates a Senator for the seat, best case Jack Reed or Sheldon Whitehouse, my guess is we can short circuit the obstruction.  But every minute of Republican obstruction is a gift from God for Democrats to unify presidential, Congressional and statewide mobilization and campaigns.... 

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