My Humble Solution to the HRC Problem

As I was out and about this week, I chanced upon the post-NC primary episode of the Diane Rheams show. Her 3 guests were all in agreement that Hillary Clinton needed to get out of the way, but, that like a guest that just doesn't want to leave when you are yawning at the door, this might be a problem. Being Beltway operatives, they were all talking about ways to allow her to save face in a carrot-and-stick kind of way. These folks think she should be offered the Vice president's slot, or have her campaign debts paid off. Neither of these are very good - Hillary is not going to settle for second place, no matter how powerful Darth Cheney has made it, and with the really BIG, important election coming up, Democrats need all the money they can use for all the congressional, senate, and presidential races. Based on some of the blogs I've been reading lately, quite a few in the general public are beyond the niceties of negotiating and just want her out. NOW.

I have to give credit to my beloved for coming up with what I feel is a perfect solution - Give her the next open slot on the Supreme Court.

Consider:

1) Supreme Court Justice is a powerful enough position to assuage the loss of the presidency.

2) The Court is so out of balance right now that we really need a hard left shift to even it out.

3) Poor Bader-Ginsburg needs another woman to speak for half of the country.

4) All the corporate media and pundits would be so busy frothing at the mouth over her that Obama could actually get the important business of running the country done.
and most importantly

5) It would be so much fun to see Fat Tony, Clarence, Roberts, and Scalito blow their respective gaskets. It might even be good for them to be challenged and have to think about the issues, rather than rubber-stamping every leftover Bush whim.

Note from my Beloved: When I first made this observation over a year ago, Senator Clinton was not running for the Republican nomination, as she is now, so, the idea of appointing Clinton to the Supreme Court might horrify some people. Because she has some of the stupidest political advisers fistfuls of money can buy, she has been running a hard right campaign because they told her that's how she wins. As a Supreme Court Justice is not a job you have to run for, and once you're in, death is about the only thing that will dislodge you, she could happily return to the more liberal and sensible Hillary of the early 90's.

Just the idea of his would give Pat Robertson an aneurysm, and it doesn't get better than that.