[montag813]

This is a throwaway nominee. He is too old. The Democrats don’t want him. They’d rather have a young minority to spend 30 years shredding the Constitution and getting revenge against white folks. Obama knows damn well Garland has no chance. That’s the point. Democrat enthusiasm is at all-time lows. This is designed to boost it. Simple as that.

[nascarnation]

Can Republicans run the clock to Nov and send him thru if a Dem wins POTUS? (Assuming he’d be better than the next nominee)

[kingu]

This is a throwaway nominee. He is too old. The Democrats don’t want him. They’d rather have a young minority to spend 30 years shredding the Constitution and getting revenge against white folks. Obama knows damn well Garland has no chance. That’s the point. Democrat enthusiasm is at all-time lows. This is designed to boost it. Simple as that.

Close; this is a nominee designed to have a confirmation process. One who was selected to be rejected. Do the process for this one, the next one will be presented which is whom the White House really wants, and very little leg to stand on in refusing to hold hearings at that point, and pretty much exactly what I predicted.

Here's your bait, Republicans - do you let the nominee sit there and wait for the president to withdraw it after throwing repeated fits, or will you cave? I'd put money on the caving, but I think I'll more prudently tuck it away in a more exchangeable form.