President Obama vs GOP Congress: Supreme Court: Obama has the upper hand now

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/senate-republicans-say-no-to-idea-of-republican-nominee-giving-president-obama-more-leverage/23926/

When the storyline surfaced yesterday that President Obama was considering nominating Nevada republican governor Brian Sandoval to the Supreme Court, it seemed immediately apparentto me what he was doing. Obama was floating the name of a somewhat moderate republican whom he was never going to nominate anyway, in the hope of getting republican leadership in the senate to admit that they won’t approve his nominee even if it is one of their own. Today’s that’s precisely what happened. And now Obama’s job just got much easier.