Yesterday, I wondered whether the Administration was either naïve or aloof, bragging — to the UN! — about its lawsuit against Arizona for attempting to help enforce immigration laws. Turns out, there’s a third option.
In the comments, John writes:
Odds are they still think this is a winner in Blue States, especially California, and by pushing the lawsuit they can goose Democratic turnout enough to get Boxer and Brown across the finish line.
If that’s the case, and it certainly seems plausible, then the White House must have given up any hopes of holding the House. Because this kind of stuff is absolutely going to cost them House seats — all just to save a couple Democrats in California.
Everybody say it with me now: All just to save a couple Democrats in California.
It’s amazing how far and fast the once-mighty are falling.
But we’re not there yet. Vote. And bring your friends.
I’m thinking it’s not about “a few dems in California” so much as “a few dems in the senate” Specifically the Unholy Trinity of Boxer in CA, Murry In WA and Feingold in WI, three formerly solid incumbents who are now in tossup races. If they can somehow keep two of those three they keep the Senate, which means they keep control of the confirmation process and gives Obama free license to put a bunch of left wing judges on federal benches everywhere to legislate for them when they lose the ability to legislate in Congress the old fashioned way. They could remake the judiciary in a way that decades of (even tea-party reformed) GOP control of Congress couldn’t undo. (look at what one of these judges did to the law in AZ). You’re right that they still lose a bunch of hosue seats with this, but everyone who’s anyone in politics right now knows (even if they won’t admit publicly) that the Dems have already lost the house.