If I were Obama, I'd be goading them into it.
They're not doing anything anyway, so they might as well be proving how utterly batshit insane and extreme they really are as we go into '14.
Honestly, I only see upside for Dems. It would remind everyone that they did it to Clinton too. It would cement the idea about how reckless and irresponsible they are.
I dunno, I'm kinda warming up to the idea, and we might as well since its almost certainly inevitable.