The game is to keep the Republicans on the defensive constantly so that they cannot organize a decent defense posture for the 2010 elections.
It’s not just to keep them on the defensive it’s to totally remove them from the board. That’s Obama’s pattern and the rest of the DemoRats in congress and leadership positions outside of congress including in the MSM are as big a set of weasels as you can find who really want power and to destroy anything or one that doesn’t agree with them.