I bet Jeb Bush didn't see this book in his home when he was growing up. My parents had two copies of it in our house.
Posted on 05/15/2014 2:03:41 PM PDT by george76
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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This guy’s an idiot.
Is he coming on to Doris Kearns Goodwin when he says that? She’s probably up for it, Jeb.
No. Absolutely not.
So basically lie and pander to blacks and Hispanics so they’ll vote republican for 200 years?
WTF is wrong with this guy?
Heard on Glenn Beck today that ol’ Jebbie gets $$$ from Common Core testing. Disgusting to think he profits from the downfall of the American education system.
Please...NO MORE BUSHES Please
I bet Jeb Bush didn't see this book in his home when he was growing up. My parents had two copies of it in our house.
OMG, LBJ totally destroyed this country.
Now we know what will be waiting for us if we were so foolish to vote for JB.
Does Jeb have a Beagle that he can hoist by the ears?
This guy must have a brain tumor or something.....
This does not even make sense.
Besides being a liberal boondoggle, LBJ left office in disgrace after presiding over the worst conducted war in US history, with the nation torn apart.
The other thing he did was push civil rights legislation through, so is Jeb planning on some huge civil rights push for illegals?
I can’t even imagine anyone of either party citing LBJ as a role model president. He left the country in shambles.
He would pull his basset hounds’ ears?
Bm...
Neah. He needs to keep talking.
With a little luck he’ll completely undermine himself.
Never thought I’d live to hear a ‘Pubbie wanting be like LBJ. Geez, the world truly is upside down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSExogKSOyc
Universal suffrage being what it is, the person who promises the most loot from other people's pockets is a shoo-in. That's why Obama won, twice. And that's why the government is going to continue to grow. The only limit is "physics," as the constitution is a living document.
http://www.amazon.com/A-Texan-Looks-at-Lyndon/dp/1568490097
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A Devastating Diatribe
By Kurt Harding VINE VOICE on May 31, 2003
Format: Paperback
It would be an understatement to say that author Haley does not like Lyndon Baines Johnson. And despite the fact that his book is an unrelenting tirade against all things Lyndon, it provides a useful service in reminding the reader of how Johnson trampled and double-crossed friend and foe alike in his single-minded lust for power.
I am fairly conservative politically, but I am open-minded enough to recognize and oppose corruption whether practiced by liberals or conservatives. In my lifetime, Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton have been shining examples of the worst impulses in American presidential politics in which greed and lust for either power or money ended up overshadowing any of their real achievements.
Haley shows that Johnson was a man of few real principles, neither liberal nor conservative, but rather a man who usually always wanted to know which way the wind was blowing before taking a stand on any important issue. Johnson was a man who used all his powers of persuasion and veiled threats to get what he wanted and woe unto anyone who stood in his way. He was a man who knew and used the old adage “It’s not what you know, but who you know” to Machiavellian extremes. But he was also a man of sometimes great political courage who would rarely give an inch once he took a stand. He hated those who opposed him, nursed resentments, and wreaked revenge on those who crossed him in the least as most of his enemies and many of his friends learned to their sorrow. From the earliest days, he was involved with corrupt Texas politicians from the local to the state level and swam in the seas of corporate corruption with the likes of the infamous swindler Billy Sol Estes and others of his stripe.
So Jebbie would be a corrupt bully and thug pushing through a radical and destructive leftist agenda.
LBJ was a absolutely horrible president and any one who wishes to emulate him is really, really out of touch with reality.
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