So, whats going to happen now? Within hours of Scalia's death, Mitch McConnell announced that the Senate would not confirm a new justice under the current president, even though that will throw our legal system into chaos for at least a year. Here's how it will play out.
1. President Obama will know that picking a liberal will poke a stick in the Republican eye. He may try it once, just to win some political points.
2. He will soft ball over the plate a moderate middle of the road judge with good credentials but without a big track record.
3. The Republican political assassination team will immediately knock the nominee right out of the park with a combination of, character assassination, innuendo, right wing punditry, litmus tests, religious views, accusations of left handedness, or anything else that will postpone an actual vote.
4. Under constant personal assault, the nominee will likely decline or withdraw his nomination before a vote can be cast.
5. Wash rinse and repeat, probably three of four times.
6. Even though the American public will, by this time be clambering for resolution, by selecting, a balanced nominee, and if he actually receives a vote in the Senate, he will lose. King Solomon could not be confirmed under the current conditions in the Senate, with the current President. It won't even be close. Adding to the slim majority the lockstep Republicans hold in the Senate there will be a number of Democratic Senators in swing states that will not risk their political future on a reasonable appointment.
Mitch McConnell as well as a number of Senators and congressmen have, over and over again, shown themselves to be traitors to the American Constitution, and the American public. This will be just one more in a long line of seditious acts.
