Jeb Bush says it's 'not important' how the Senate blocks Obama's court nominee, so long as they do

[truebluefan]

Asked to weigh in on the hastily constructed Republican theory that sitting presidents with a year left in their terms are no longer allowed to nominate Supreme Court justices, on Sunday Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush declared that it was "not important to me" whether Republicans permit a vote on a replacement for deceased Justice Antonin Scalia or not.

Immediately afterward, one presumes, one of Jeb's over-patient staffers likely explained that appearing to blow off one of the Constitution's few specifically named presidential duties as "not important" was not very presidential-sounding, and so Jeb was back today with a more forceful tone. Sort of.

"It’s up to Mitch McConnell in the Senate. I’m not a senator. I’m not running for the United States Senate. If he’s going to take that path, I’ll respect that completely. What shouldn’t happen in a election year, a president in a very divisive kind of time, should [not] nominate someone and have it be passed,” Bush replied. "There shouldn’t be deference to the executive.

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