It preserves the Conservative seat on the SC,
All that shit about 3 D chess is just bullshit. We should know that by now.

1. If the Republicans cave you replace a radial right wing extremist with a center-left justice which will make a big difference.

This is unlikely to happen given McConnell said the NRA doesn't approve of Garland. That is a reason to like him in the first place.


2. If a Dem wins the presidency and we win back the Senate the new President picks someone who is more progressive and the Republicans would wish they confirmed him.


Win-win situation.

I hope he withdraws and someone else better is chosen. He's for Citizen's United on steroids. Do not pick another swing vote in the Supreme Court. That is not the change we need.

Is President Obama still trying to get the Republicans to do the reasonable thing? This is someone they would normally approve of but of course no because he's an Obama nomination.

The Judge is a Clinton guy.
"Garland joined the new Clinton administration as deputy assistant attorney general in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice."

1. Success of Pres. Obama's idea depends on the Republicans' stated option of not
evaluating any candidate picked by him. So he picked a Right Winger for them
to "obstruct," and also show their stupidity. This is the situation we find ourselves
in right now.

2. Other Republicans, like George F. Will, are protesting this Republican option. McConnell
might let this arguing back and forth go on for a long enough time to make it look good,
and then finally "reluctantly" gives in. And voila, we'll continue to have a Right Wing
Supreme Court for the next 10 years!

If it should happen as described above, the Republicans will have outsmarted Obama. Obama was taking the greater risk. It's McConnell now who has the real freedom of choice.

Of course Obama could still change his mind, and appoint a Democrat, waiting till the last moment (when McConnell announces that the Senate would interview the appointee). Do you think Obama would do this last-mentioned? It would make HIM (Obama) look not too good!

At this time when Black Lives Matter is finally such a big movement, why in the world go with yet another old white guy who doesn't know what is going on in the real world?

It's time for a real progressive leader in the Supreme Court. Obama should nominate one after the other and make the Senate look really like the creepy bunch of white supremacists that it is.

Sheesh! Unarmed citizens, even kids are dying in the streets at the hands of rogue police officers.

Obama should have used this opportunity to MAKE A STATEMENT THAT MATTERED.

I love Obama, but he needs to have more courage.

Sometimes drama is the right way to get your point across.

Obama has to be the least dramatic president, the least willing to use drama to move forward of any president in modern history. That's fear, and we have had too much of it in the Democratic Party.

if they nominate SC candidates not approved by Wall Street and the US Chamber of Commerce.

The diabolical brilliance of the nomination is that coupled with the GOP's intransigence, the president is getting Democrats to support this crappy nomination just to get it done. It puts the GOP between a rock and a hard place and gets the Democratic Party for the most part behind the nominee when we have no idea where he stands on choice and Citizens United. IMO Democrats are being robbed of a liberal/progressive SC justice that would change the balance of the court for a generation.

That's a surprise?

Garland is needed in case TTP goes to the S.C.

Think about this..throughout Obama 's Presidency he has always caved to the Republicans without a fight or even the slightest objection, just to show he could be the "bipartisan President".. Republicans have gotten their way forr 7.4 years so why should it change now.
Even when Democrats had control of both houses Republicans got their way.

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/15/the-gop-s-worst-nightmare-scotus-nominee.html

Tino Cuellar. California judge. Mexican-American. Harvard. Yale. Stanford. How many Latino votes you think the GOP’d get if they block him?

Make the Republicans pay for their obstructionism!!! It's like DUH!!!