White House knows its opposition too well

• Leadership entails influencing the polls not being jacked around by them
• Instead, GOP leadership leaves the field of battle on important issues to leftist commentators
• Weak sister Republicans who live by the polls rather than leading them, will die by them (along with the country)
  

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Senior White House officials optimistic Garland will be confirmed

With this GOP leadership, they have good reason to be optimistic

Tribune News Service is reporting that there is growing optimism at the White House that Obama’s pick to succeed the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court will be confirmed.

Although Senate Republicans, led by Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell (KE) continue to maintain that they will not allow either a hearing on Merrick Garland’s nomination or a confirmation vote, we at Veritaspac have a feeling shared by many conservatives that the White House has good reason to be optimistic.

With a GOP Senate delegation including people like Susan Collins (ME), Mark Kirk (IL), Lindsey Graham (SC), Jerry Moran (KS) , Jeff Flake (AZ), and a host of others who never fail to disappoint, led by McConnell, a betting man would have to like the odds that the Republicans will fold like a cheap suit. According to a couple of people identified by the Tribune as “White House Officials’, the strategy to pressure the GOP Senate leadership to hold a vote will be to press the messaging for “people to be fair”.

Another tack is to use the current 4 to 4 split on the Court. The Democrats will argue that a key function of the Supreme Court is to put an end to lower-court disputes on federal laws.

Perhaps the biggest leverage the White House will use against the cowardly GOP leadership are some polls they claim reflect the fact that “large numbers of the American people” believe that giving Garland hearings and a confirmation vote are “the fair thing to do”.

Our guess is that will work against the GOP.

Democrats, on the other hand, when it comes to an issue they care about, what the American people think, as reflected in polls doesn’t matter a whit! The fact that consistently 70% and more of Americans, in poll after poll, oppose late term abortion and various Planned Parenthood antics influences them not at all.

Oh…and that “be fair” thing. Let’s talk to Harry Reid about that.

DLH

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