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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Somebody buy him a Lil President playset and maybe he’ll leave us alone.
2016 is not something to look forward to.
This is why a Republican won’t be seeing the inside of the Oval Office for a long time.
Get a real job, Jeb. Of the countless things this country needs, another LBJ is definitely not one of them.
I am starting to guess Sarah Palin is on the sidelines deciding whether to run as an independent or not.
Guessing at the moment, she is tending toward the independent, more than the not, at this point.
Tea Party 2016.
It helps when you have a solid obedient majority in both houses. Johnson didn't do it alone. Jebbie is a naive fool.
Reason #1 to throw that schmuck into a bottomless, based upon the TRILLIONS of damage and societal horror LBJ inflicted on America, and still continues to be felt, today
MOD: Can you edit my title please I messed it up a bit
Like I needed another reason not to vote for this guy
Actually, instead of putting a "J" at the beginning, putting another "b" at the end would be nice: "ebb" Bush. Has a certain lovely ring to it...
Screw all RINOs.
Jen is slime.
Only a Bush could think of Lyndon Johnson in a good light.
One of the worst Presidents ever, and a horrible person to boot.
What a d#ckhead!
Two Bushes were enough.
Oops, that’s “Jeb is slime.”
Will govern like this:
Guessing at the moment, she is tending toward the independent, more than the not, at this point.
Tea Party 2016.
If about 15-30% of the sitting Congressmen would agree to switch to the new party then the old GOP could be supplanted like the Wigs were supplanted. But Id hate to have a real conservative doing a Ralph Nader or Ross Perot on us thus leaving a clear field for Hillary, or, God-forbid, Joe Biden. I tend to believe that Sarah would not do that to the country.
I know many people sat out the last election because Mitt was a socialist. But at least he was an American socialist. I held my nose and filled in the circle next to his name.
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