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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: Lazamataz

He needs to run with Hillary.


41 posted on 04/08/2015 10:20:59 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: Lazamataz

42 posted on 04/08/2015 10:21:12 AM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: Lake Living
Well, he’s more honest than I thought.

I was a little surprised.

43 posted on 04/08/2015 10:21:25 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: GeronL

last week he was shedding tears because people criticize the NSA


He’s a flake. He’s got his head buried in the sand.


44 posted on 04/08/2015 10:21:28 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Lazamataz

I’ll have the gardeners voting GOP for 200 years.


45 posted on 04/08/2015 10:21:32 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Political America as a whole has kept skidding leftward.

You misspelled 'sprinting'.

46 posted on 04/08/2015 10:22:06 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: Lazamataz

Jeb will regret that comment ......

That he thinks he can get elected with supporting Common Core, his weakness on immigration, checking off ‘hispanic’ in the race box (no, I’m not giving him a break & calling it a ‘mistake’) and now saying he’ll govern like LBJ, tells me the man is either delusional, power hungry, thinks he’s entitled to the job because his name is Bush, or maybe all of the above. I find it rather sickening.


47 posted on 04/08/2015 10:22:51 AM PDT by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns)
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To: shankbear

>>Shoot me in the head now!!<<

That’s just damn funny! Right?

Jeb Bush is stumbling out of the gate. Heck, I think Joe Biden might be his uncle or something.


48 posted on 04/08/2015 10:23:39 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Lazamataz

I know that this is a little below the belt but would that mean Jeb will grab dogs by the ears or conduct meetings with advisors and other underlings while he is on the throne?


49 posted on 04/08/2015 10:24:03 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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To: shankbear

omg...even die hard life long democrats (like my parents) hate Lyndon Johnson!

I honestly cant think of a worse thing Bush could have said.


50 posted on 04/08/2015 10:25:49 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Ray76

I was in high school when LBJ became Prez. He steamrolled the nation into his “Great Society”, micromanaged our war effort in Vietnam, stood by as the cities exploded in race riots, changed our coinage from silver to alloy, then bailed out in 1968, from whence he lived only another four years.

Ao...Jebster says he would govern like a pushy bullying liberal Democrat. He’s either tone deaf or stupidly arrogant or both.

Geez......


51 posted on 04/08/2015 10:25:55 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease.")
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To: OttawaFreeper

When it comes to Republicrats, no shot we can take is ‘below the belt’.


52 posted on 04/08/2015 10:26:02 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: Lazamataz

I can only not vote for Jeb once, sad to say.


53 posted on 04/08/2015 10:26:10 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
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To: elcid1970
changed our coinage from silver to alloy

That one right there seriously hurt the nation.

54 posted on 04/08/2015 10:27:01 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: OttawaFreeper
I know that this is a little below the belt but would that mean Jeb will grab dogs by the ears or conduct meetings with advisors and other underlings while he is on the throne?

Or show us his gall bladder scar.

55 posted on 04/08/2015 10:31:46 AM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: Lazamataz

So, a radical socialist??


56 posted on 04/08/2015 10:33:12 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Lazamataz

r u skidding


57 posted on 04/08/2015 10:33:51 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: TADSLOS

She’s not surprised. She is the queen of that socialist brood from New England.


58 posted on 04/08/2015 10:34:14 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: elcid1970

he’s honest


59 posted on 04/08/2015 10:34:44 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Lazamataz

Wow, what a statement. That’s like a man telling me ahead of time that he wants to date my daughter and beat her unconscious.

What kind of soul does a man have to aspire to anything LBJ did?


60 posted on 04/08/2015 10:34:48 AM PDT by lurk
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