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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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Two Bushes were two too many.
We sure could use a guy like that now.
He ain’t getting my vote, Communist
I remember LBJ. He did more damage to the US than anyone I can think of.
What, start as Vice-President and shoot your way to the top?
"The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period. . . ." - George Washington, Circular to the States, June 8, 1783" The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world." - George Washington, First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789
Or, consider this excerpted portion of the 1801 Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson for guidance on the seriousness of the undertaking:
(Excerpt) "Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation; entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them; enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter—with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you, it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid; the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason; freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety."
In the Year 2016, the question should be: which candidate possesses the intellectual qualifications to lead us to "retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety"?
Names, anyone? Caution: must provide curriculum vitae, as for most employers!
Good one, FRiend!
Stay out da Bushes!
This is why a Republican won’t be seeing the inside of the Oval Office for a long time.
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I have stated numerous times that I do not expect to see another fair presidential election in my life time. The Rats have the fraud machine humming along perfectly.
Rand Paul 2016, the rest can go to hell (and probably will).
Rand has hinted on favoring amnesty. As if that is a solution. My tolerance for people supporting law breakers is over.
Governing like LBJ is HARDLY an endorsement!
Hell! Obama makes LBJ and Clinton(s)look like third rate amateurs when it comes to screwing citizens and taxpayers!!!
“If conservatives don’t get pro active within the party we most certainly will end up with another RINO. Now is the time to join your local Republican party and start taking it back from the GOPe.”
Really? I’m not buying this will impact the national elections. Locally, maybe.
The problem is that conservatives are not wanted in the Republican Party, except to vote for RINOs. Ditto independents. Ditto Libertarians.
Conservatives are to the Republican Party, like Black Americans are to the Democrat Party. Both stuck on a plantation that wants money, work and obedience, but no equality.
Would that you could.
“Only a Bush could think of Lyndon Johnson in a good light.”
LBJ and the Bushes go way back. I presume they were friends. President George W. Bush even mention’s LBJ showing up to his grandfather’s (Senator Bush’s) mansion in Connecticut one Christmas in his book “Decision Points”.
Rand wants them to get in line like everyone else. The only difference is he wont make them leave the country and come back in 10 years. What’s wrong with that? He wouldn’t qualify them for welfare either and would secure the border.
I see things a bit differently. Hillary ( or whomever has the D next to their name) has a clear path to the oval office unless there is a real conservative in the race. Have the last two presidential elections really taught us nothing?
Jeb sounds like a man after Karl Rove’s heart!
Lincoln wins worst President walking away. It isn’t even close.
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