You are elected to the leadership position to lead, not to coddle the calcified hangers-on fighting three electoral wars ago. If he can't lead (which it appears he can't), he should GTFO of the way for someone who can.

And yet the unfathomably incompetent Trump appointees are all going to be installed ... The problem with that philosophy is the problem with Garland himself - playing by what amounts to an optional set of rules, that the other side no longer recognizes. Dems kept blue slips, for crying out loud!

Except what happened was basically the worst of all possible worlds. So any change to what was done would have been preferable. You know who would have been perfect as AG for this moment? Eliot Spitzer.