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JEB BUSH: I WOULD GOVERN LIKE LYNDON JOHNSON AS PRESIDENT
Breitbart ^ | 15 Feb 2013 | Tony Lee

Posted on 04/08/2015 10:09:49 AM PDT by Lazamataz

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.

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To: sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker

I don’t take the reference.


101 posted on 04/08/2015 9:48:32 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Impy; stephenjohnbanker
RE:”I don’t take the reference.”

That was GWB bragging in interview that he would ram amnesty through a newly Dem controlled congress since many in GOP were opposed and they just lost congress, and he failed miserably.

Now Jeb says he would ram stuff through like LBJ did.

102 posted on 04/08/2015 9:55:15 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: sickoflibs

Curious George, the curious little monkey....


103 posted on 04/08/2015 10:18:24 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Lazamataz

Jeb would Bomb North Vietnam?


105 posted on 04/08/2015 10:51:32 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Advertising Space Available here.)
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To: sickoflibs; Impy; stephenjohnbanker; Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; NFHale

” See you at the signing!

SJB remembers that one. “

Yeah, I blew an F’n head gasket over that one.

But this was by no means his worst statement.


106 posted on 04/09/2015 8:45:41 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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