Wretchard:

I wasn’t originally impressed by their letter. (It seemed a bit whiny to me.) However, you may be right that fighting this on the structure rather than on the substance is the way to go. If so, GOP congressional leadership has proven more shrewd in one letter than they have in… um… my lifetime?

I must correct myself… The fight they are picking may be more about substance that it first appears. The essential argument is ‘start over.’ If Obama decides to start over, he can actually come out a big winner, but that would be governing, and the opportunity to rule would be lost. So I guess the President must decide how serious, or silly, he really is. (I’m voting, and hoping, for silly.)