He knows that Obama’s best shot to get an ultra-liberal is right NOW. The conventional wisdom on this one is a bunch of bull. If he is going to find someone to advance socialism he needs to do this when he has 59 senators instead of maybe 52 or 53.
This also gives him a chance to energize his left that is really pissed off. And an unforeseen side effect it gets Stupak off the front page on the cable networks.
Update: even better for the president the Republican base will be furious if they don’t put up a fight that the press will slaughter them for, lucky for Republicans the press has no credibility. I hope senate republicans are smart enough to know this.
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