Posted on 02/14/2016 10:26:37 AM PST by drewh
Jeb Bush says it doesn't matter to him whether Senate Republicans vote on any Supreme Court nominee President Barack Obama may send to Capitol Hill to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
Bush tells CNN's "State of the Union" that the decision is up to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell -- who's said there will be no such vote until Obama leaves office in January.
The Republican presidential candidate says "it's not important to me" whether there's a vote before then.
That sentiment isn't shared by Bush's Republican presidential rivals. Soon after Scalia's death, they were demanding that a prospective Obama nominee not get a vote.
Bush says Obama has "every right" to submit a nominee to the Senate. But the former Florida governor says he doesn't think Obama would nominate someone who's "in the mainstream."
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The gutless wonder.
There are two things that are certain to happen this year. The Cleveland Browns will still suck this fall and the Democrats will have a fifth radical liberal justice on the SC since the GOP won’t do a damn thing to stop it. Hmm. Instead of two I listed three things that are certain to happen this year.
Whut!!! It's not important!? Could this guy *be* any more clueless?!
As a life long Browns fan, I agree with your predictions.
Jeb! is not very smart.
Sorry, no disrespect was intended to the people of Cleveland or fans of the Browns.
If the GOP Senate fails to stop this nomination, they deserve to be relegated to the dustbin of history just like their predecessors, The Whig Party.
Hey bad is bad.
And they were ranked #32 in the post SB power rankings.
Oh, and Yeb! is still an idiot, but we already knew that.
Jeb. Never right. Never conservative.
Another day, another reason not to vote for the RINO Surrender Monkey...JEB!
So there are three possibilities which quickly spring to mind.
1. Jeb! is like his friend Linda Graham, who backs down from even the thought of a fight.
2. Jeb! is hoping SCOTUS becomes a liberal bastion, so if by some miracle he gets to be president he can shrug his shoulders and cock his head to one side with slack jaws like he does in the debates and say at press conferences “my hands are tied” by SCOTUS.
3. Jeb! is a mental midget.
Well...he’s partially right. Obama does have the right. The GOP Senate also has the right to reject every nominee he sends up until the end of his term. Whether or not they will do that remains to be seen.
0bama does. And the Senate has “every right” to refuse the candidate. The only thing that is startling in this is Yeb!’s apparent lack of understanding of what is at stake. The guy is so dense he bends light.
What are we going to do for entertainment if Yeb drops out?
Typical Uniparty, Bush has his head so far up Obama’s azz he’s looking out Obama’s mouth.
Bush is right that Obama has constitutional authority to submit a name.
He’s an idiot to say “it doesn’t matter to me.” about a vote.
this must be an act. Nobody can really be as out of touch as Jeb Bush....who last night wanted to fund al Qaeda in Syria. Who wanted to start BushWarIII.
If he were any more lightweight Hindenburg would be plastered on his forehead.
Congress reflects the will of the people, and the people don’t want another ‘diversity token’ COMMUNIST on the Supreme Court FOR LIFE.
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