[arrogantsob]

This was a Senate decision. He was nominated by the WH wasn’t he?

[Smokin' Joe]

People keep forgetting the Senate is 100 votes. If the climate of the Senate 'changed', then why did it change? How many GOPe Senators had knowledge of what was going on in Benghazi? No one has been charged. No real scandal, beyond what we Hillary watchers know, and a lot of testimony that went nowhere. What would it take for a 'no vote', and that's just on Benghazi (Keeping in mind the Admiral was a past commander of SEAL Team 6--tasked with counterterrorism), not on the idea of open homosexuals in the ranks--something that might not go over well with a SEAL.

I think that by the time the Admiral was cleared of wrongdoing, the sense of the Congress had changed, in more ways than one. By then virtually any pretense of Congress fighting the administration's demands was gone and the order to scuttle him may well have come from a different place besides the Senate itself.

"When it became clear that key senators would stall other Pentagon nominations in protest of the planned promotion for Losey, the Navy announced last week that it would withdraw the promotion and the SEAL would seek retirement this summer."

In the end, I smell Harry Reid all over this, and he takes his marching orders from 1600 PA Ave.