Subject: Brian Sandoval
From: Brent Budowsky <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 21:02:33 +0000

You have some real shrewdies at the White House, always too smart for your own good.  I would write that Senate Democrats should vote no on Sandoval.  Problem with this move is that the obvious move for Republican Senators from swing states who do not oppose Sandoval now is to say they might have voted for him if Obama had actually named him, but he went ahead and named a Democratic liberal so they vote no. In which we don't have any chance at 60, and we don't get any political benefit in November if they obstruct.  We get zero.

Does Obama really want to take the chance of giving life tenure for the 9th seat on the court to a fellow who could turn out for him the way David Souter turned out for Bush 41?

Eric do you wonder why after 7 years of Obama Republicans control the House, the Senate and a majority of governorships and state legislatures?  It is because Republicans were inflamed to vote while Democrats became depressed and stayed home. Hillary has enough problems with this right now, 

If you want to depress Democratic voters in November, do Sandoval.  If you want to give Republicans an excuse to obstruct any Democrat then float Sandoval, name someone else, and you give them a gift from God.  They get it all.  We get zero.

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