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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It’s becoming clear why Barbara Bush originally came out and said there’s been enough Bush’s in the WH, she knows Jeb better than anyone.
If Jeb ran on the Dem ticket, he’d stand a better chance of getting the nomination.
He forgot to tack right for the primaries and then back left for the general. Hopefully this is going to end badly for him and well for conservatives.
Yep.
Jeb would be a big gubmint dumb ass with a showering problem.
The “great society”?
What a mookabooking waste of money.
tonkin Gulf here we come....Sure am glad I,m not draft age again...
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Is he courting liberal hippies who long for the days of flower power, free love, tune in, turn on, drop out? If so I just wish he’d get to the part “I will not seek, nor will I accept the nomination by my party as your president.”
What a maroon.
Stay out da Bushes!
And he’s supposed to be the “front runner?” Cruz or lose!
He is not “clueless.” He is running to prevent a Conservative winning the presidency, that and nothing more. He likely does not truly desire to be President but he sure as hell doesn’t want a Conservative to be elected.
He IS running as a Dem, a Dem from the wholly owned subsidiary called the Republican Party. It is more and more a simple division of the Party sort of like Chevrolet is to Government Motors.
LBJ used to fly over my house in a flight of 3 Army helicopters on his way to his little ranchette in Johnson City.
The man is utterly despised in Texas outside Austin. It’s almost like the man never lived here as no one EVER talks about him.
I thought what I was reading was a joke that Jebbie said this! Unbelievably stupid!
LBJ Would have sent you to Vietnam first.
-PJ
So let me get this straight...Jeb.
Yer willing to be the veep and yer boss offed by a couple, three guys, in Dallas?
I’ve seen this movie...
Admits he is really a Democrat?
Wow. That’s jus asinine. ..
Sure, I’ll vote fer yuh....
Well that’s it then. Go home Jeb.
Is this satire? How is he not done already? When did he say this?
Remember this story, where McConnell ALSO said he’d like to govern like a democrat. Seems to be a common theme with these moderate republicans!
http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2014/03/27/mitch-mcconnell-wants-govern-senate-like-democrat/
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