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. Read more http://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...rt-nominee-so-long-as-they-do?detail=facebook
