Cenk Uygur rips Merrick Garland: If he were nominated by a Repub ‘I’d want to filibuster him’

[21st Century Poet]

28. President Obama is doing his duty.

The Constitution says that the President has to appoint judges to the Supreme Court in consultation with the Senate. The Constitution does not make exceptions for when Senate members happen to be assholes. Appointing a liberal judge would have been the right thing to do if Democrats had been elected as a majority to the Senate. The people chose otherwise so the President's choice has to reflect the situation of a Democratic President and a Republican majority Senate.

I know that this is not what the Democratic base likes to hear but that's the way it is. You have the Constitution, the President and the Senate all playing a role in this. These institutions and people's democratic choices are what run the country and not the Democratic base.