The pros and the pros of a Rice nomination

Time magazine's Jay Newton-Small itemizes the pros and cons of President Obama's nominating choice of Susan Rice, now that "White House officials are whispering to the New York Times and other news outlets that Rice is currently Obama’s favorite to fill the top cabinet slot" of secretary of state.

The "pro" items are unexceptional, including Rice's youthful zeal, Obama's admiration for her, her popularity among Democrats and her political kryptonite qualities for sane (yeah, I know) Republicans.

Among the cons of Rice-as-nominee: Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham have already embarrassed themselves with extravagantly goofy filibuster threats; more than one GOP House committee is planning on making McCain-Graham-like asses of themselves with HUAC-like hearings on Benghazi; Rice might be "too blunt" for the job; and, "as Obama noted in his press conference, the people re-elected him to work with the other side, not get mired in partisan fights," which would delight political junkies like us to absolutely no end.

Wait, those are the cons?

Comments

[W Caulfield]

A good way to push more Senate Dems towards Filibuster Reform?

[Turgidson]

The GOP should be pointed and laughed at if they make a real go of opposing Susan Rice.

This is the party whose previous leader nominated actually-incompetent actual liar Condi Rice to the same position, and JOHN FUCKING "if the UN building blew up no one would miss it" BOLTON as ambassador to the very same UN he thinks shouldn't exist. And the party was in near-lockstep, enthusiastic support of both. (I think the sane Linc Chafee and the not-always-insane Voinovich stopped the Bolton nomination from confirmation, which Bush promptly ignored with a recess appointment).

These morons can go fornicate themselves with the rustiest pitchfork they can find. They have about as much authority to judge another's competence as I have to be an astronaut.

[AnneJ]

Oh I surely do hope that she is nominated and confirmed! One thing I love is when republicans make their threats such as Jim DeMint's infamous making of health care reform Obama's Waterloo or Mitch McConnell's goal of making Obama a one term president. Yes we may be in for more of the same for at least the next two years, so I'm just trying to get whatever pleasure I can out of it even if it's schaudenfreude at republicans' expense.