Moving past the election. The First 100 days. What does HRC get accomplished?

Moving past the election. The First 100 days. What does HRC get accomplished?

One of the top priorities has to be ending the Constitutional crisis by the GOP refusing to advise and consent on Obama's SC justice pick.

What does she do?

*Anyone* she picks is going to be obstructed. The GOP leadership have *already* announced that they will.

If she continues to allow them to obstruct the appointment process, she will make permanent a huge weakening of the POTUS and break the checks and powers between Congress and POTUS.

Now it is certainly possible (likely?) that Obama will appoint post-election so as to disturb the election, but still seat his candidate. However, I do not think that is likely as it would *seem to me* that he would no longer be in favor of sitting a centrist, and would not retract Merrick and sit another. So I think he would leave place the softball on a T-stand for HRC.

Now, given that the GOP have already announced their obstruction, I think she should simply sit whomever she sees fit *without* delay. No perfunctory advice and consent period.

I think she should as POTUS, interpret that the GOP have already had plenty of time to advise and consent, and have already *given* their advice and consent: "we don't like anyone from you." And that the POTUS nods and says, well, we gotta carry on.

Then of course the GOP will howl and moan and sue the POTUS for violating the constitutional advise and consent phrase.

But who is going to hear this case? The Supreme Court.

Of course her new recruit recuses, and so the court splits 4-4 (at best for the GOP - because the SC cannot appreciate being helpless to the Congress).

A split vote then is the same as HRC getting her pick.

Again, they are going for impeachment for her entire term 24x7 and will obstruct *everything*.

Given that, I believe HRC has a *constitutional* duty to restore the functioning of our government and provoke the true resolution to this constitutional crisis.

And at the higher level, I think that in this era of clever obstructionism, the POTUS needs to expose themselves to being sued and impeached and push the bar back to getting government to work again.

There needs to be consequences for obstructionism, so far the only has been the goofy override of Obama's veto the 9/11 victim's law where the GOP blamed Obama for not stopping them from shooting themselves in the head.

Nothing stays the same. There is no reason to believe that USA will grind to a halt from obstructionism without a POTUS flexing their power to find the true limits.

I also think that it would end up being popular with the independents who are tired of shit not getting done.

Originally posted on Facebook on October 18, 2016.