3-D chess FAIL: Sanduvol won't be your puppet

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

Withdraws name.

[villager]

1. Good. If "think about the Supreme Court" is a vote-for-Dems mantra, let's not nominate Repubbies. nt

[saturnsring]

2. good

[KamaAina]

3. Under pressure from whom, I wonder?

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

4. In a way, he was just going to be used as the dog in the pony show

Every pundit weighed in and said it was brilliant because it was going to force the Rs hand (I know many here, disgracefully not all, thought it was ridiculous regardless of the motivation). I don't see any reason for pressure. I see my name getting whipped around and I put the kibosh on it.

[0rganism]

5. it doesn't matter much, the important thing is making nominations

i'm hoping to see a nomination every week, preferably a highly qualified minority with unquestionable judicial merit, for the senate to publicly reject.

doesn't really matter if the person declines the nomination, as long as the senate isn't going to take it up anyway

President Obama can just keep hammering on this thing, it's a very nice gift from the GOP to Obama -- is his birthday coming up or something? -- it'd be a shame to waste that kind of love.

[LannyDeVaney]

6. Again, I'm left just shaking my head ...

at how quick some of you are to assume the President doesn't know what he's doing.

Issue, after issue, day after day.

[Hortensis]

8. Obama is not one of them. Well, I was looking

forward to seeing how Sandoval played out, but this was fast. Interestingly, I hadn't realized but Sandoval himself is a strong figure and could be a presidential contender in future if he wished. Maybe inevitable blowback from the McConnell et ilk convinced him there was no way they were going to approve his nomination.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

9. Please. Many of us never bought the 3-D chess meme. People were tripping all over

themselves the last few days with a completely different narrative than what actually played out. In short, this outcome was never considered a as possibility and is a huge let down.

Looking forward to the next thread and game of 3-D chess!

[Jester Messiah]

7. Good. It's beyond sickening to see Democrats nominating a Republican to SCOTUS.

What the fuck was Obama thinking anyway? He must be spending too much time listening to the "Take What You're Given and Like It" coming out of his former SecState.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

10. Sandoval is anti-union, too!

Rook to E1KL1