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.
There are obviously multiple “fires” underneath the smoke and the multiple accusations from several different sides.
Most likely, ALL are “guilty” of several different levels of different errors, angers, retributions, actual crimes, actual infractions of both “very minor” and “maybe minor but exaggerated” by politicians in uniform and in the WH and Senate and Pentagon. And don’t ever think that politicians are only in Congress and the WH!
Bottom line though: The troopers (SEALS themselves) are getting hurt and not perfomring their missions as their commanders and admirals go chasing political nominations and promotions. And yes, Reid and his WHite House staffers and their enablers in the homosexual and Muslim community ARE right in the middle of it.