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Originally Posted by Solecismic
Identity politics aside, if Garland were nominated during Obama's first term, Republicans should have (that doesn't mean would have) viewed it as an attempt to find someone who is more accomplished than political. He's 100 times better than Kagan or Sotomayor. I'm a cynic, though. Even though the intellectual analysis of Obama's action here - essentially a compromise between the idea that a final-year president shouldn't make important appointments and that an appointment should be blindly partisan - seems positive, nothing these days is ever positive. Not even a small gesture is rewarded.
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Paragraph becomes a lot more true if you add "by the GOP Majority Congress." to the end.