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If you were playing 8-dimensional chess, you might do this:
You welcome the Republican-lite Senator's conversion to Dem...he votes with you more or less to prove himself to his new party...you get your health care legislation thru with his help...he faces a primary challenge from the 'left' (if you want to call it that)...you support him in the early going of course...you call the real Dem and you say this to him:
Joe, you're a great guy...we like you...listen carefully...I'm going to offer you a deal to stay out of the race...I'm going to offer you essentially NOTHING...you'll refuse right? Good boy...see you soon in the Senate side...
You then leak it to the press that he's been offered a job to stay out of the race...BRIBERY! IMPEACHMENT! DEATH TO DEMOCRATS! are the cries heard from Republicans and Tweety (who, of course just 'has' to play Limbaugh nightly on his stupid show...)...it simmers for a while all the flavor cooking into it...then...you release the info...the former President offered you a BS advisory post for no dough...now there's a BRIBE! Meanwhile...moran rethugs have shot their collective wad over nothing, rien, nada...all that posturing and there's a vacuum.Oh shit, they say...they get that dipshit Issa to go onto the floor and ask for a special prosecutor and lo and behold! Bush Jr.'s own man says no fucking way; how dumb are you?...Sestak regains his footing, the Rethugs are out of ammo, and Toomey that cretin former restaurant owner coasts to a dramatic loss to a three-star admiral.
Then again...maybe not...but hoo nose???
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