Posted on 02/16/2013 7:09:33 AM PST by JohnPDuncan
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said he would strive to be like Lyndon Johnson, the Democrat famous for expanding the U.S. welfare state through the "Great Society," if he were elected president.
According to the Miami Herald, Bush made those comments Wednesday night in San Antonio, Florida at Saint Leo University, while speaking about education, immigration, and energy policy.
Bush did not address Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty programs, about which Ronald Reagan once famously quipped, "We had a war on poverty, and poverty won."
Instead, he was referencing Johnson's mastery of the so-called sausage-making process in Congress.
He vowed to approach the presidency as "master of the Senate," as biographer Robert Caro described Johnson.
“He went and he cajoled, he begged, he threatened, he loved, he hugged, he did what leaders do, which is they personally get engaged to make something happen,’’ Bush said of Johnson. Bush cited Caro's latest book about Johnson, The Passage of Power, which covers the first part of Johnson's presidency.
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That's not to say that senators or representatives make good presidents. They usually don't. A president needs administrative experience.
But the experience of a new president negotiating with Congress for the first time often is not a pretty one. It was like that with Bush's brother. What Obama's excuse is, I don't know.
I don't think inexperience will be a problem with Jeb. Not only was he a Gov in one of the most contentious and populous states, he's been steeped in politics and congressional dynamics all his life. He knows the ropes.
Someone tell him that we don’t need another LBJ. I despise LBJ’s policies because it brought about a lot of the welfare system that we have today. NO, Jeb Bush!
I’ve come to realize we’ve become our own worst enemy.
What,exactly, would make Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) a bad president, let alone unfit for office (taking aside his touchy-feely in an adult theater)?
What have the ‘Ivy League’ given us that makes them SO much better than your drinking buddy?
I’d bet Paul or your buddy would know how to balance a budget, think twice before committing our troops into battle, secure our borders, etc.
On the other hand, the Ivy guys only seem to be one-world gov’t types who know how to get us into more mess, nose into EVERYONE’s business and try to run the U.S./World by some quack theory they learned in college.
The office of President, by Constitutional standards, is a figure-head position. No real power outside of CiC and veto.
Yes, I answered my own rhetorical question by bringing up the Constitution. We the People have allowed all this to go down. IMHO, we’re too far down the Fall of the Republic; we are a Banana American Idol Republic, to think that some poor slub would allow themselves to be torn apart on TV to try to turn back the tide. It sure isn’t the President or the Congress whom are tasked with securing our Rights and Liberties!
If you vote for Hillary, aren't you voting for the Clinton dynasty? How is that any better than a Bush dynasty?
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and Jeb thinks this is a good thing?
Is he running in the Dem Party?
Simply this. The Clintons and the Bushs are rabid Statists. We expect our enemies to be against Liberty. But, when it's supposedly one of our own, it's much more grievous and cruel to our conscience.
I loathe the Clintons and the Bush's, but at least I can respect the Clintons for running in the Party that's proud to push Statism.
Really. Who asked him?
Jeb Bush: I Would Govern Like LBJ as President
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said he would strive to be like Lyndon Johnson, the Democrat famous for expanding the U.S. welfare state through the "Great Society," if he were elected president.
According to the Miami Herald, Bush made those comments Wednesday night in San Antonio, Florida at Saint Leo University, while speaking about education, immigration, and energy policy.
Bush did not address Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty programs, about which Ronald Reagan once famously quipped, "We had a war on poverty, and poverty won."
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Willard was a ringer for Zero. He did his job. No vote from me.
I don’t think he’d be that conservative, myself.
Well why not? Practically every leader in the Republican Party defends the centerpiece programs of the New Deal and the Great Society as fiercely as any Democrat.
Thank you a voice of sanity.
“Read My Lips....No More Bushes.”
If conservatives had become involved in a mass, organized effort after the 2008 presidential debacle and actually tried to take over the party apparatus, we could have had control over the convention. Instead, too many just went to Tea Party rallies or contributed money to a politician or sat around complaining about the state of the party and country. That’s not cutting it. We need to get involved, kick out the RINOs, and change the party rules to favor conservatives.
I know this goes against the way we conservatives like to think of ourselves, as not needing a leader....but the fact is, it will take a charismatic leader for people to rally around, if we are going to make any serious headway. And the fact is, there are no such people in the GOP these days....it’s not just about being right on the issues, it is having the political savvy and the charisma, to attract people, and even convert those who don’t necessarily agree with everything.....That’s what Reagan did.
“We need to get involved, kick out the RINOs, and change the party rules to favor conservatives.”
Ah, you dreamer you! Go for it.
I’ve come to see that EVERY PROBLEM in Washington, DC is there because BOTH parties want it that way.
Republicans just want to see the move to socialism move more slowly.
Republicans have put us into debt with continual war, expansion of social programs and government, and borrowing like crazy.
Republicans are beholden to special interests, who give generously and expect a return.
Democrats want us to become the Sweden from 1960, which has been renounced by Sweden. Sweden is doing quite well now, after reigning in the size of government.
Democrats have put us into debt through uncontrolled social spending, increasing the size of government and borrowing.
Democrats are beholden to special interests, who give generously and expect a return.
Your army of conservatives won’t take over and change Washington, DC. they will be absorbed into it, just like those brought there by Reagan and the Bushes. It is a big feeding trough. Hogs get hungry.
... Still, it is nice to dream
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"I’ve come to see that EVERY PROBLEM in Washington, DC is there because BOTH parties want it that way."
. . . . See # 139.
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