President Barack Obama railed against the Republican senators who are stalling a consideration of his Supreme Court nominee, D.C. circuit judge Merrick Garland and vowed to support him through his term as President in an interview aired Sunday.
“I think there’s no doubt that Democrats and Republicans have gotten into a fix inside the Senate in which the confirmation process becomes too much of a tit-for-tat or becomes politicized,” Obama said on “Fox News Sunday.” “So I don’t object to Republicans saying, ‘look, Merrick Garland may be a fine man. He may be an excellent judge. But I just disagree with him philosophically on a whole range of issues so I’m going to vote against him.'”
Obama said that he didn’t think there would be objections to Garland if he were to go through the nomination process. Obama also told Fox News host Chris Wallace that he would support Garland throughout his term even if the process dragged on through his time in office.
Obama’s appearance was his first interview with “Fox News Sunday” since being elected president.
I must make a point of watching this interview
Obama will go on Fox News, but not Bill Maher’s show?!?
One is a news channel (nominally) and the other is a comedy show. Also, the drop the F bomb a lot on Maher’s show, and President’s generally avoid that.
Integrity through and through on one side…and on the other…they’re going to wait around to see which way the wind blows in November, before deciding whether to support Garland.
Republicans may think they’re being clever here - but what they don’t realize is that they pay a price for this lack of integrity. This is why they’re own base doesn’t trust them and why they’re headed for a chaotic, pie-throwing convention. With amoral people like Trump and Cruz heading their party.
Maybe Maher could do a 60 minute interview with the President, that way the f-bombs could be avoided & or edited out, that would have the potential to be a fantastic interview.