Bush (perhaps not-so-wisely bringing up his performance in the last debate) tried to get Kasich to stay quiet, saying, “I got about four minutes in the last debate. I’m going to get my question right now.”

And yet, after all of that, Kasich started talking — as politicians are wont to do — and Bush inexplicably let him go.

“I appreciate it, Jeb,” Kasich almost patronizingly said. “I’m all for ya. But I want at some point to talk about a value-added tax and $11 trillion, $12 trillion tax cuts that will put our kids way deeper in the hole than they have been at this point. So I would like to talk about it at some point, because that’s what leadership is.”

Bush soon got to talk, but not before Bartiromo asked a new question. It was, as Washington Post reporter David Weigel points out, classic Bush.