Jeb Bush

[DMX7]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Philip_Seymour_Hoffman_2011.jpg/220px-Philip_Seymour_Hoffman_2011.jpg

Or Philip Seymour Hoffman???

[m>s]

Rather have Hillary let's let it burn

[DMX7]

Rather have Hillary

Me too! With Julian Castro as VP.

[m>s]

Rather have the land duck from south park that quacks and shit flies out of his mouth over both to be honest

[TeyshaBlue]

Holy Shit! :lmao

[boutons_deux]

Jeb Is Damaged Goods

Hillary is much more popular than all the Republicans out there. And the Republicans as a group are either not popular or totally unknown. But the real stand out is that Jeb Bush is damaged goods.

By historical standards, he is probably the most likely nominee at this point. He's pretty close to wrapping up being the money and the establishment candidate. And those guys tend to win Republican primaries. But Jeb is very well-known already and yet he is substantially less popular than Hillary or Obama or even Joe Biden. What's particularly striking is that there's no big scandal associated with him. There's really nothing particularly bad except that he has the Bush name and he is him.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/jeb-is-damaged-goods?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

[Infinite_limit]

If Reps nominated Paul, they'd run away with the Presidency

[Blake]

If Reps nominated Paul, they'd run away with the Presidency

Doubtful

[Blake]

Jeb could definitely play Hoffman in a biopic

[DarrinS]

If Reps nominated Paul, they'd run away with the Presidency

I don't think so

[SnakeBoy]

If Reps nominated Paul, they'd run away with the Presidency

It would be interesting for sure. Hillary would be running as the hawk.

[boutons_deux]

The George W. Bush Fundraisers Whose Firms Received Florida Pension Deals Under Jeb Bush


While Jeb Bush was governor of Florida, state pension officials committed at least $1.7 billion to financial firms whose executives were “Pioneer” fundraisers for his brother’s presidential campaigns. To achieve Pioneer status, the fundraisers had to amass at least $100,000 worth of bundled contributions to one of George W. Bush’s campaigns.

An International Business Times analysis of Florida government documents and a list of George W. Bush’s bundlers compiled by Public Citizen (http://www.citizen.org/whitehouseforsale/index.cfm?mid=20&id=63) found that 11 firms that received new Florida pension investments under Jeb Bush were Pioneers. IBTimes also analyzed data from the Florida Division of Elections (http://election.dos.state.fl.us/) and Political Moneyline (http://www.politicalmoneyline.com/About.aspx) to determine how much money executives from those firms donated directly to Jeb Bush’s campaigns, George W. Bush’s campaigns, the Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Florida between 1998 and 2006.

Here are the companies that employed George W. Bush's top fundraisers and received pension deals in Florida under Jeb Bush:

Blackstone Group


George W. Bush Pioneers: Stephen Schwarzman (2004)
Company employees’ total contributions to the Bushes, RNC and Florida GOP: $99,000
Investment commitment from Jeb Bush's administration: $150 million (2006)
Florida taxpayer fees paid to firm under Jeb Bush: N/A
History: In 2006, the Florida pension system committed $150 million to a Blackstone Group private equity fund. Stephen Schwarzman, the firm’s chairman, was a George W. Bush Pioneer in 2004. The firm’s employees donated $86,000 to his campaigns for president, $9,000 to the RNC and $4,000 to the Florida GOP. Last month, Schwarzman reportedly attended a fundraiser for Jeb Bush.


Carlyle Group


George W. Bush Pioneers: Robert Grady (2000)
Company employees’ total contributions to the Bushes, RNC and Florida GOP:$69,000
Investment commitment from Jeb Bush's administration: $275 million (2000 and 2005)
Florida taxpayer fees paid to firm under Jeb Bush: $14 million
History: The Florida pension added new investments with Carlyle Group in 2000 and 2005 that generated almost $14 million in fees under Jeb Bush. Former President George H.W. Bush was an adviser to the firm from 1998 through 2003. One of his old aides, Carlyle executive Robert Grady, was a donor to Jeb Bush’s campaigns, a Pioneer in 2000 and a co-chairman for both of George W. Bush’s presidential campaigns. Carlyle employees gave $31,000 to those national campaigns, and $36,000 to the RNC. Last year, Grady resigned from his role as chairman of the board overseeing New Jersey’s pension system, facing questions about the state’s deals with Carlyle Group and firms whose executives had donated to groups supporting New Jersey's Republican Gov. Chris Christie.


Deutsche Bank


George W. Bush Pioneers: Jeffrey Amling (2000)
Company employees’ total contributions to the Bushes, RNC and Florida GOP:$200,000
Investment commitment from Jeb Bush's administration: $450 million (2003)
Florida taxpayer fees paid to firm under Jeb Bush: N/A
History: Under Jeb Bush, Florida pension officials placed $450 million in two funds managed by Deutsche Bank. Jeffrey Amling, a top executive at Deutsche Bank, was a Pioneer for George W. Bush in 2000. Deutsche Bank executives gave $110,000 to his presidential campaigns. They also contributed $82,000 to the RNC and $4,000 to the Republican Party of Florida. Amling was a contributor to Jeb Bush’s 1998 campaign.


Freeman Spogli


George W. Bush Pioneers: Bradford Freeman (2000 and 2004); Ronald Spogli (2000 and 2004)
Company employees’ total contributions to the Bushes, RNC and Florida GOP: $743,000
Investment commitment from Jeb Bush's administration: $50 million (2004)
Florida taxpayer fees paid to firm under Jeb Bush: $1.7 million
History: Freeman Spogli received a $50 million commitment from Florida’s pension system in 2004. That year, the firm’s lead executives, Bradford Freeman and Ronald Spogli, were both Pioneers, as they were four years earlier. The firm’s employees gave $21,000 to George W. Bush’s presidential campaigns and $670,000 to the RNC. They also donated $50,000 to the Florida GOP. Florida paid Freeman Spogli $1.7 million in fees between 2004 and 2006. Freeman has reportedly co-hosted two fundraisers for Jeb Bush this year. George W. Bush appointed Spogli as ambassador to Italy in 2005 and San Marino in 2006.


Goldman Sachs


George W. Bush Pioneers: Peter Coneway (2000 and 2004); George Walker IV (2004); Henry Paulson Jr. (2004)
Company employees’ total contributions to the Bushes, RNC and Florida GOP: $1.5 million
Investment commitment from Jeb Bush's administration: $150 million (2004)
Florida taxpayer fees paid to firm under Jeb Bush: $2.5 million
History: In 2004, Florida pension officials directed $150 million in funding to a Goldman Sachs subsidiary, while Jeb Bush’s cousin, George Walker IV, was Goldman’s head of alternative investment strategies. At the time, Walker and two other top Goldman executives were Pioneers for George W. Bush’s re-election campaign. Another, Goldman CEO Hank Paulson, would later be named U.S. treasury secretary. Goldman employees gave a total of $390,000 to George W. Bush’s campaigns, and $1.1 million to the RNC. They also gave $22,000 to Florida’s state Republican Party. The Goldman investment generated $2.5 million in fees for Goldman while Jeb Bush was governor.


Hicks Muse


George W. Bush Pioneers: Thomas Hicks (2000 and 2004)
Company employees’ total contributions to the Bushes, RNC and Florida GOP: $189,000
Investment commitment from Jeb Bush's administration: $25 million (2001)
Florida taxpayer fees paid to firm under Jeb Bush: $1.3 million
History: Florida first invested money with Hicks Muse in 1996. With Jeb Bush as governor, the state put $25 million in a new Hicks Muse fund, which generated $1.3 million in fees during his tenure. The firm’s founder, Thomas Hicks, previously purchased the Texas Rangers baseball club from George W. Bush, and was a Pioneer for his presidential campaign in 2000. Hicks contributed to Jeb Bush’s 2002 campaign, gave $36,000 to the Republican Party of Florida and $115,000 to the RNC.


JPMorgan Chase


George W. Bush Pioneers: Alan R. Buckwalter III (2000); John O'Connor (2004)
Company employees’ total contributions to the Bushes, RNC and Florida GOP:$64,000
Investment commitment from Jeb Bush's administration: $100 million (2003)
Florida taxpayer fees paid to firm under Jeb Bush: N/A
History: Florida pension officials gave JPMorgan a $100 million pension deal in 2003. Former JPMorgan chairman Alan Buckwalter III was a Pioneer in 2000. Another top executive, John O’Connor, was a Pioneer during the 2004 campaign. JPMorgan employees contributed $31,000 to Bush’s presidential campaigns, and roughly the same amount to the RNC.


Lehman Brothers


George W. Bush Pioneers: Stephen Lessing (2004)
Company employees’ total contributions to the Bushes, RNC and Florida GOP: $499,000
Investment commitment from Jeb Bush's administration: $175 million
Florida taxpayer fees paid to firm under Jeb Bush: N/A
History: The Florida pension system invested in Neuberger Berman in 2005. At the time, the firm was owned by Lehman Brothers. A year earlier, Lehman executive Stephen Lessing was a Pioneer for George W. Bush’s re-election campaign. Lehman employees gave nearly $300,000 to his national bids. In 2006, George Walker IV joined Lehman to guide Lehman’s asset management business, including Neuberger Berman. One year later, after Jeb Bush left office, he joined Lehman as an adviser for the firm’s private equity business. Funding numbers for Florida’s initial Neuberger Berman investment were not available at press time.


Morgan Stanley


George W. Bush Pioneers: Palmer Murray (2000) John Mack (2004), Richard Powers III (2004) Philip Purcell (2004), William Strong (2004)
Company employees’ total contributions to the Bushes, RNC and Florida GOP: $1.1 million
Investment commitment from Jeb Bush's administration: $150 million (2006)
Florida taxpayer fees paid to firm under Jeb Bush: N/A
History: Six months before Jeb Bush left office, Florida pension officials invested $150 million in a Morgan Stanley real estate fund. Before that, four of the firm’s top executives had previously served as Pioneers for his brother. Morgan Stanley employees donated $625,000 to George W. Bush’s campaigns. They also gave $18,000 to the Republican Party of Florida and over $515,000 to the RNC.


Prudential Financial


George W. Bush Pioneers: Jon Hanson (2000)
Company employees’ total contributions to the Bushes, RNC and Florida GOP: $406,000
Investment commitment from Jeb Bush's administration: $100 million (2005)
Florida taxpayer fees paid to firm under Jeb Bush: N/A
History: Florida officials first put pension money in a Prudential real estate fund in the 1980s. Florida pension officials liquidated the state's investment in Prudential's PRISA fund in 2003, but invested in it again two years later. Jon Hanson, a longtime Prudential board member, was a Pioneer in 2000, and Prudential employees gave $70,000 to George W. Bush’s presidential campaigns. Prudential pumped $185,000 into the Republican Party of Florida and $150,000 into the RNC.


UBS


George W. Bush Pioneers: Joseph Grano (2004)
Company employees’ total contributions to the Bushes, RNC and Florida GOP: $147,000
Investment commitment from Jeb Bush's administration: $100 million (2003)
Florida taxpayer fees paid to firm under Jeb Bush: N/A
History: In 2003, Florida pension officials invested $100 million in UBS real estate funds. At the time, Joseph Grano, chairman of UBS Financial Services, was leading George W. Bush’s Homeland Security Advisory Council. He was a Pioneer in 2004. UBS employees gave $40,000 to Bush’s campaigns. They gave $96,000 to the RNC and $4,000 to the Republican Party of Florida.


http://www.ibtimes.com/george-w-bush-fundraisers-whose-firms-received-florida-pension-deals-under-jeb-bush-1880624

The same type of orgs have beening paying Bill and Hillary $Ms in "speaking fees" over the years. Hillary was getting $200K/speech.

... is why Wall st, the financial sector is as immune, untouchable as your local police goons.

[boutons_deux]

"We're Not Racist, But ... "

Jeb Bush Praises Book by Notorious Race Theorist Charles Murray – Says His Views “Were Shaped” by Him

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/jeb-bush-praises-book-notorious-race-theorist-charles-murray-says-his-views-were?akid=13063.187590.hgya4a&rd=1&src=newsletter1035713&t=7

[Winehole23]

I don't think soit's seldom we agree, but I don't think so either.

[Nbadan]

Jeb Says George Is His Most Influential Adviser

May 7, 2015


“When asked this week at an exclusive Manhattan gathering about who advises him on U.S.-Israel policy, Jeb Bush surprised many of the 50-plus attendees by naming his brother, former president George W. Bush, as his most influential counselor,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Bush: “If you want to know who I listen to for advice, it’s him.”

The remark came as part of an answer to a question about Bush’s political advisers and their policy views. Bush was pressed for details about who he surrounds himself with and consults as he thinks through his positions, guests said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/one-of-jeb-bushs-top-advisers-on-israel-george-w-bush/2015/05/07/920fec8e-f4da-11e4-bcc4-e8141e5eb0c9_story.html

[boutons_deux]

A Florida law required some single moms to publish ads naming their sexual partners

While Jeb Bush was governor of Florida, the state approved a law (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/31/us/florida-scarlet-letter-law-is-repealed-by-gov-bush.html) forcing single mothers seeking to give their children up for adoption to publish their sexual histories in a newspaper in an attempt to contact the children's fathers — even if the mothers were rape victims or minors.

The measure, passed in 2001 and soon nicknamed the "Scarlet Letter" law, wasn't actually signed by Bush — though he chose not to veto it, either — and was repealed in 2003 after courts found it to be unconstitutional. But the bizarre and anachronistic policy, flagged by the Huffington Post's Laura Bassett (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/09/jeb-bush-1995-book_n_7542964.html?1433860308) Tuesday in a review of Bush's past rhetoric and policies toward single mothers, could be a problem for the presidential hopeful who once bemoaned (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeb-bush-republicans-cant-be-seen-as-anti-everything/) that the GOP is viewed as an "anti-woman" party.

When Florida legislators crafted this provision, their goal was to ensure that a biological father would be informed before a single mother gave his child up for adoption.

They inserted it into a massive overhaul of Florida adoption law after some well-publicized cases (http://www.sptimes.com/News/040601/news_pf/Opinion/Worthy_adoption_bill.shtml) in which children of single mothers were given up for adoption without the knowledge of their biological fathers, leading to years long court battles and uncertainty for the children involved.

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/9/8751955/jeb-bush-scarlet-letter-mothers

[boutons_deux]

Jeb Bush's 1995 crusade to publicly shame unwed mothers, cuz women are always the problem (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/09/1391793/-Jeb-Bush-s-1995-crusade-to-publicly-shame-unwed-mothers-cuz-women-are-always-the-problem)

a retrospective (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/09/jeb-bush-1995-book_n_7542964.html?1433860308) on some radical ideas from his 1995 book Profiles in Character, which helped inform his lawmaking as governor.


In a chapter called "The Restoration of Shame,” the likely 2016 presidential candidate made the case that restoring the art of public humiliation could help prevent pregnancies “out of wedlock.”


"One of the reasons more young women are giving birth out of wedlock and more young men are walking away from their paternal obligations is that there is no longer a stigma attached to this behavior, no reason to feel shame.

Many of these young women and young men look around and see their friends engaged in the same irresponsible conduct.

Their parents and neighbors have become ineffective at attaching some sense of ridicule to this behavior.

There was a time when neighbors and communities would frown on out of wedlock births and when public condemnation was enough of a stimulus for one to be careful."

Bush points to Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, in which the main character is forced to wear a large red "A" for "adulterer" on her clothes to punish her for having an extramarital affair that produced a child, as an early model for his worldview.

"Infamous shotgun weddings and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter are reminders that public condemnation of irresponsible sexual behavior has strong historical roots,” Bush wrote.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/09/1391793/-Jeb-Bush-s-1995-crusade-to-publicly-shame-unwed-mothers-cuz-women-are-always-the-problem?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29#


http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/unmarried-childbearing.htm

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-Unintended-Pregnancy-US.html

[Clipper Nation]

:lmao An SJW libtard criticizing someone else for supporting public shaming, ya gotta believe me.

[boutons_deux]

Dear Sirs, I Am the Son of US President George H.W. Bush and I Have a Business Proposition for You

IN MARCH 1989, Jeb Bush arrived in Nigeria to a royal welcome (http://www.motherjones.com/documents/2095832-state-department-cable-march-1989). More than 100,000 American-flag waving Nigerians lined the streets of Gombe to watch as the US president's son was honored with a 1,300-horse "durbar," a festival typically reserved for heads of state and religious holidays. Bush later met with (http://www.motherjones.com/documents/2095833-state-department-cable-march-1989) Nigerian dictator Ibrahim Babangida, who had come to power in a 1985 military coup. They chatted about Cuban human rights and the failed nomination of John Tower, Bush's father's pick for defense secretary.

But the president's then-36-year-old son was not visiting Nigeria on a diplomatic mission. He had come to promote an industrial water pump company. The visit—and the $82 million deal tied to it—would form one of the more controversial episodes of Bush's business career and dog him for years (http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/old-lawsuit-with-ties-to-jeb-bush-resurfaces/2130981) after he jumped into politics.

The deal became notorious because of allegations, outlined in thousands of pages of court documents (http://www.motherjones.com/documents/2095470-purcell-v-mwi-original-complaint), that the transaction had been greased through massive bribes to Nigerian officials paid for by American taxpayer money loaned through the US Export-Import Bank.

The deal triggered a federal criminal investigation (http://www.sptimes.com/News/71899/news_pf/State/Some_say_probe_tests_.shtml), as well as nearly two decades of civil litigation by the US Department of Justice that in 2013 resulted in a federal jury finding (http://www.motherjones.com/documents/2095887-mwi-verdict-form) that the water pump company, MWI Corp., had defrauded the federal government of millions of dollars.

Bush has long tried to distance himself from the deal. He was not a defendant in the Justice Department lawsuit, and no criminal charges were ever brought against him or MWI. He has repeatedly said (http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/elections-2016/jeb-bush/article23679718.html) that he didn't directly profit from the venture or know about any alleged bribery or political influence peddling. But even the less salacious details of the deal, revealed in years of legal filings, don't reflect well on Bush.

Bush lent his name—and that of his prominent family—to an enterprise with hazards that should have been obvious.

Nigeria, then as now, was infamous for its corruption that was virtually inescapable for anyone attempting to do business there.

And according to the Justice Department and testimony in the trial, the company Bush was promoting sold overpriced agricultural equipment to an impoverished nation whose people often couldn't use it. In the process, the deal put the already indebted nation further into hock to foreign creditors.

Bush did not respond to a request for comment for this story, but as he prepares to announce his bid for the presidency, questions still linger about the exact part he played in a deal that the Justice Department said took advantage of both the Nigerian people and American taxpayers.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/jeb-bush-david-eller-mwi-bush-el-nigeria

I suppose JEB will call this article another "cheap shot"

("my daddy made sure I wasn't liste as a defendent")

[boutons_deux]

Jeb Bush is modeling his campaign on one of military history's great disasters

https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Av9VG14xiUYuKCKCymqQPE2k-dA=/126x0:1071x630/1280x720/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/46533178/pickett.0.0.jpg

Jonathan Martin and Patrick Healy (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/us/politics/jeb-bush-works-to-recover-from-a-shaky-start.html) on rebooting Jeb Bush's presidential un-campaign:

By hiring Mr. Diaz, Mr. Bush wanted to send a clear signal that "the culture of the Bush operation will now be a Pickett's Charge engagement campaign with his main opponents," according to one Bush ally.


This is a reference to an element of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War (http://www.vox.com/2015/4/14/8396477/maps-explain-civil-war). Except Pickett's Charge was a bloody disaster for the men involved that devastated the strategic position of the men who'd ordered it.

The context was that General Robert E. Lee had ordered a daring Confederate invasion of the North, which eventually led to a massive gathering of Union and Confederate forces in the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

On the third day of that battle, Lee ordered artillery bombardment of Union positions on the high ground at Cemetery Ridge, followed by an infantry charge.

Union forces correctly predicted what was up, and silenced their guns during the Confederate barrage.

That lead the rebels to mistakenly believe that they're knocked out the Union's big guns, so they sent 12,000 men to try to take the ridge.

They were cut to pieces by Union guns, suffered a 50 percent casualty rate, lost the battle, and permanently lost the strategic initiative in the larger war.

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/14/8777727/jeb-bush-picketts-charge

Word is now "Can JEB recover from his disastrous few weeks as not-yet-candidate, while still gaming the system by unlimited fund raising to be a candidate"

JEB pandering to Confederate voters? :lol

[Galileo]

Jeb Bush's 1995 crusade to publicly shame unwed mothers, cuz women are always the problem (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/09/1391793/-Jeb-Bush-s-1995-crusade-to-publicly-shame-unwed-mothers-cuz-women-are-always-the-problem)

a retrospective (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/09/jeb-bush-1995-book_n_7542964.html?1433860308) on some radical ideas from his 1995 book Profiles in Character, which helped inform his lawmaking as governor.


In a chapter called "The Restoration of Shame,” the likely 2016 presidential candidate made the case that restoring the art of public humiliation could help prevent pregnancies “out of wedlock.”


"One of the reasons more young women are giving birth out of wedlock and more young men are walking away from their paternal obligations is that there is no longer a stigma attached to this behavior, no reason to feel shame.

Many of these young women and young men look around and see their friends engaged in the same irresponsible conduct.

Their parents and neighbors have become ineffective at attaching some sense of ridicule to this behavior.

There was a time when neighbors and communities would frown on out of wedlock births and when public condemnation was enough of a stimulus for one to be careful."

Bush points to Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, in which the main character is forced to wear a large red "A" for "adulterer" on her clothes to punish her for having an extramarital affair that produced a child, as an early model for his worldview.

"Infamous shotgun weddings and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter are reminders that public condemnation of irresponsible sexual behavior has strong historical roots,” Bush wrote.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/09/1391793/-Jeb-Bush-s-1995-crusade-to-publicly-shame-unwed-mothers-cuz-women-are-always-the-problem?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29#


http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/unmarried-childbearing.htm

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-Unintended-Pregnancy-US.html




The law exists pretty much everywhere, just check the public welfare rolls.

[boutons_deux]

The law exists pretty much everywhere, just check the public welfare rolls.

got any links to shaming people for being on public assistance?

[boutons_deux]

The erstwhile front-runner tries to get things in order (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/us/politics/jeb-bush-works-to-recover-from-a-shaky-start.html):
By hiring Mr. Diaz, Mr. Bush wanted to send a clear signal that “the culture of the Bush operation will now be a Pickett’s Charge engagement campaign with his main opponents,” according to one Bush ally.

Hmm. Pickett’s Charge is not exactly something you want to emulate …

I find myself thinking about an incident from a while back, where Jeb invoked the spirit (http://www.gainesville.com/article/20050918/COLUMNS/50917061?tc=ar) of a “mystic warrior':


After more than an hour of solemn ceremony naming Rep. Marco Rubio, R-West Miami, as the 2007-08 House speaker, Gov. Jeb Bush stepped to the podium in the House chamber last week and told a short story about “unleashing Chang,” his “mystical warrior” friend.

Here are Bush’s words, spoken before hundreds of lawmakers and politicians:

”Chang is a mystical warrior.

Chang is somebody who believes in conservative principles,

believes in entrepreneurial capitalism,

believes in moral values that underpin a free society.

”I rely on Chang with great regularity in my public life.

He has been by my side and sometimes I let him down.

But Chang, this mystical warrior, has never let me down.”


How was he to know that “unleashing Chiang” was about landing Kuomintang troops on the mainland, where they would have been slaughtered? :lol

(Maybe that Pickett comparison isn’t so off after all.)

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/dont-know-much-about-history-jeb-bush-edition/?_r=0

Seems like Pappy and Barbs spawned two extremely stupid, ignorant sons. Governors of TX and FL! :lol which is exactly how the VRWC loves its Useful Idiots.

[DMX7]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Philip_Seymour_Hoffman_2011.jpg/220px-Philip_Seymour_Hoffman_2011.jpg

Or Philip Seymour Hoffman???

He will be our first Academy Award winning President.

Go get 'em, P-Hoff... I mean Jeb, tee-hee.

[boutons_deux]

Scientists Believe They Have Isolated Gene for Failure

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/borowitz-failure-690.jpg

MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report))—Geneticists at the University of Minnesota believe that they have isolated the gene that makes some people much more prone to failure than others.

While the research is preliminary, the scientists said that they were able to successfully identify the failure gene by studying the DNA of males in two generations of the same American family.


“If we have indeed isolated the gene that makes people fail—and we believe we have—all of the subjects in our study are carriers,” said Davis Logsdon, the geneticist who supervised the research.

According to Logsdon, those who carry the gene for failure have “absolutely no idea that they have it” and thus project the confidence and self-assurance of people whose genetic material does not make them likely to wreak havoc on a massive scale.

“Not only does this gene cause people to fail, it makes them fail to understand that they have failed,” he said. “It is a really bad gene.”

While scientists have not yet found a cure for the failure gene, they consider isolating it a major breakthrough in itself.

“Once we identify someone as a carrier of this gene, we can try to keep him out of situations where he might do great harm to others,” Logsdon said.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/scientists-believe-they-have-isolated-gene-for-failure?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(21)&cndid=&mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(21)&CNDID=&spMailingID=7827330&spUserID=MjczNzc0Njk0NDAS1&spJobID=701958653&spReportId=NzAxOTU4NjUzS0

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/scientists-believe-they-have-isolated-gene-for-failure?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(21)&cndid=&mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(21)&CNDID=&spMailingID=7827330&spUserID=MjczNzc0Njk0NDAS1&spJobID=701958653&spReportId=NzAxOTU4NjUzS0

[boutons_deux]

Jeb Bush’s historic crypto-campaign: How the GOP frontrunner made American democracy even more corrupt

After spending a half-year or so (http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/jeb-bush-2016-fundraising-money-campaign-118950.html#ixzz3d84yhl1G) charging wealthy donors from Wall Street to Silicon Valley remarkable amounts of money — sometimes as much as $100,000 — to ask him questions, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush now says he’s ready to finally make his presidential campaign official.

although Bush-the-man may be a bit dull, his White House strategy — particularly his decision to outsource (http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/jeb-bush-outsourcing-key-campaign-jobs-to-super-pac/2226527) many traditional campaign activities to a super PAC — is on the cutting edge. In fact, even if Jeb falls short of his goal and does not become the third-straight Republican president named Bush, it’s possible that his fulsome embrace of the post-Citizens United era of campaign finance will be a significant legacy. Win or lose, Bush 2016 will have a lasting influence on U.S. politics. It just might not be the kind Bush hopes.

Bush has taken a flimsy regulatory status quo and, with the help of the Supreme Court as well as his trusted “Right to Rise” super PAC, essentially burnt it to a crisp.
As law professor and campaign finance expert Richard L. Hasen wrote in Slate (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/04/jeb_bush_destroying_campaign_finance_rules_his_tac tics_will_be_the_future.single.html) back in April, Bush’s unwillingness to even admit he was exploring a run, when coupled with his decision to have a super PAC run much of his campaign, “has allowed him to undermine one of the last rules in campaign finance law” we have left. Not only has he been able to keep asking donors to send his super PAC seven-figure checks, but he’s also made clear that any separation between his official campaign and his super PAC will be nominal at best. So far, this has worked out well for Bush, who reportedly has already raised nearly $100 million. But by implicitly acknowledging that his super PAC won’t really be “independent,” he’s also taken an axe to one of the Citizens United majority ruling’s foundational arguments.

To be fair to Bush, that argument was always absurd on its face. It held that unlimited contributions to “outside” groups like super PACs would not only not lead to corruption, but that they wouldn’t even lead to the perception of corruption — because these groups would operate independently. In other words, if Sheldon Adelson wants to give, say, Sen. Marco Rubio’s super PAC $10 million, there should be no worries about corruption so long as the people running the super PAC and his campaign never communicate. Most people outside the Federalist Society fantasyland of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s head immediately knew campaigns would find a way to sneak around this.

By announcing that his super PAC will handle much of the campaign’s nuts-and-bolts, Bush made clear to donors that they need not worry about their money going to waste. Because he ostensibly hadn’t decided yet whether to run for president, he could solicit six- and seven-figure donations; and because he was outsourcing to his super PAC, donors knew that giving “Right to Rise” $100,000 now was tantamount to giving $100,000 to the Jeb Bush campaign. For those worried that folks like the Koch brothers had insufficient influence over presidential candidates, Bush’s new model was a godsend. Better still, since super PACs don’t have to disclose their donors’ names, this could all be accomplished without having to worry about public condemnation.

http://www.salon.com/2015/06/15/jeb_bushs_historic_crypto_campaign_how_the_gop_fro ntrunner_made_american_democracy_even_more_corrupt/

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Super PACs are a disgrace. The Supreme Court should be ashamed. We need a constitutional amendment specifying reformed campaign finance rules.

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The Middle East Policy of President John Ellis ‘Jeb’ Bush: Iraq, Iran Wars?

Jeb Bush announced his run for president on Monday. It is hard to know what his Middle East policy would be from his wibbly wobbly pronouncements, but that it would be imperial and aggressive can be deduced from his foreign policy advisory team, including Neoconservatives such as Paul Wolfowitz, the architect of the war of aggression on Iraq in 2003.

Jeb Bush regretted the lapse of the so-called USA PATRIOT Act and dislikes the Bill or Rights’ Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution (http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/jeb-bush-weighs-iraq-and-netanyahu-speech), questioning any restraint on government search and seizure of Americans’ mail and personal effects. In this he does not differ from Barack Obama.


Bush rejects President Obama’s diplomacy with Iran. (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415929/friends-these-jeb-bush)He views Iran as “a nation that has waged a relentless campaign of terror and war-by-proxy against U.S. troops and American allies for more than three decades.” He damns the current Kerry-Zarif negotiations as leaving in place Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and potentially allowing it to brandish nukes and intimidate other countries in the Middle East. Apparently, as president Bush would cancel or renege on any deal reached with Iran and put the two countries on a war footing.

(Iran has not invaded another country in modern history. “Terrorists” it supports include the Shiite militias of Iraq with which the US is now allied to which it arms and to whom it gives close air support. So it is difficult to see how Bush can call Iran terrorist for supporting these groups but can exempt the US itself. Iran also supports Hizbullah in Lebanon, which grew up as a resistance movement against the two-decades long Israeli occupation of ten percent of Lebanese territory, which caused the 1.3 million
Lebanese Shiites to mobilize to regain their homeland. International law does not see movements of resistance to occupation as “terrorist.”)

Bush pledges knee-jerk support to the far, far-right Israeli government of PM Binyamin Netanyahu. He referred to the Obama administration pressure on Tel Aviv to grant statehood to the stateless and rights-less Palestinians as “schoolyard antics.” He as much as said he would give up any pressure on Netanyahu for a two-state solution and surrender to the latter on all major policy issues. Bush made the mistake of associating himself with his father’s secretary of state James Baker, an old-time realist who has ties to the Gulf Arab monarchies and who has long been annoyed by Israeli aggression, expansionism and intransigence. As a result, Bush lost the support of billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, widely accused of corruption in China, who put $100 billion into the 2012 presidential campaign and now seems to be supporting Mario Rubio. Bush is clearly hoping that by groveling to Netanyahu he can patch things up with Adelson.

Bush more or less supports his brother’s Iraq War of 2003 (http://www.juancole.com/2015/02/foreign-policy-ready.html) and the subsequent brutal military occupation. Rather than seeing Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) as a reaction to that occupation by displaced Sunni Arabs, he blames its rise on Obama’s withdrawal of US troops from Iraq in 2011, a withdrawal negotiated by . . . George W. Bush.

Bush wants to have more US troops on the ground in Iraq and to embed them in Iraqi military units. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/31/jeb-bush-iraq-troops_n_7479004.html) He appears not to know that there is virtually no extant Iraqi army in which to embed US troops. He seems also not to know that most of the troops are pro-Iran Shiites who would probably frag the Americans if Bush does to Iran what he says he is planning to do to it. The really effective fighting forces are Shiite militias who probably would not accept American embeds. In short, his plan for Iraq seems both aggressive and escalationist and also completely ignorant of the realities on the ground there. Where have we seen a Bush with that approach to Iraq before?

Bush doesn’t care anything about ordinary Middle Easterners or military dictators who oppress and disappear them: CNN reported (http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/19/politics/politics-republicans-egypt/), “Jeb Bush says he can’t understand why the White House has told Sisi “you’re not on our team” as jihadism spreads like wildfire through the Middle East.”

The Bushes are closely connected to the oil industry and likely Jeb would pursue policies intended to benefit it in the Middle East.

Bush has become more or less a climate change denier and calls scientists “arrogant” for concluding that man-made global warming (http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/06/jeb-bush-global-warming-skeptic) is a virtual certainty. No doubt he has long thought them full of themselves over this gravity business and the earth being round, too. His Monday speech implicitly pledged to ramp up carbon emissions by drilling for more oil and gas.

I couldn’t find that he has said anything specific on what his Syria policy would be, but apparently he never met a Middle East intervention he didn’t like.

In the forecast if he wins: war with Iran, troop escalation in Iraq, fawning support of the Israeli Likud Party’s policies in the West Bank and Gaza. The trifecta of bad US policy in the Middle East.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/middle_east_policy_president_john_ellis_jeb_bush_i raq_iran_wars_20150616?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+Truthdig+Truthdig%253A+Dril ling+Beneath+the+Headlines

JEB, the "smart brother", is just another extreme right wing conservative neo-con ready invade, bomb, occupy for oil and Israel. The MIC will obviously give JEB $10Ms.

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JEB is just another extreme right wing fringe Wall St shill

Jeb Bush: Next president should privatize Social Security

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/jeb-bush-next-president-should-privatize-social-121711767951.html

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nothing special about the "3rd strike" Bush

Jeb Bush’s pathetic Charleston dodge: “I don’t know” if white supremacist suspect was motivated by racism

http://www.salon.com/2015/06/19/jeb_bushs_pathetic_charleston_dodge_i_dont_know_if _white_supremacist_suspect_was_motivated_by_racism/

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Paul Krugman: Why Jeb-onomics Is Just Voodoo Economics All Over Again


I’ll get to Jeb!onomics in a minute, but first let me tell you about a dirty little secret of economics — namely, that we don’t know very much about how to raise the long-run rate of economic growth.

Economists do know how to promote recovery from temporary slumps, even if politicians usually refuse to take their advice. But once the economy is near full employment, further growth depends on raising output per worker. And while there are things that might help make that happen, the truth is that nobody knows how to conjure up rapid productivity gains.



Why, then, would Mr. Bush imagine that he is privy to secrets that have evaded everyone else?

One answer, which is actually kind of funny, is that he believes that the growth in Florida’s economy during his time as governor offers a role model for the nation as a whole. Why is that funny?

Because everyone except Mr. Bush knows that, during those years, Florida was booming thanks to the mother of all housing bubbles (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/bubble/). When the bubble burst, the state plunged into a deep slump, much worse than that in the nation as a whole.

Taking the boom and the slump together, Florida’s longer-term economic performance has, if anything, been slightly worse than the national average.

The key to Mr. Bush’s record of success (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/more-florida-fun/), then, was good political timing: He managed to leave office before the unsustainable nature of the boom he now invokes became obvious.


http://www.alternet.org/economy/paul-krugman-why-jeb-onomics-just-voodoo-economics-all-over-again?akid=13230.187590.hMB1TC&rd=1&src=newsletter1038088&t=5

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Jeb's right-wing turn: fight for 'traditional marriage' must continue 'irrespective' of the courts (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/22/1395522/-Jeb-s-right-wing-turn-fight-for-traditional-marriage-must-continue-irrespective-of-the-courts)

Mr. Bush, the former governor of Florida, said he was not content to let the defense of traditional marriage fade away.“It’s got to be important over the long haul, irrespective of what the courts say,” he said.

In discussing the topic, Mr. Bush made reference to divisive laws enacted in Indiana and other states that would permit some exemptions for people and institutions who say same-sex marriage violates their religious beliefs. “We need to make sure that we protect the right not just of having religious views, but the right of acting on those religious views,” he said.

He added: “Conscience should also be respected for people of faith who want to take a stand for traditional marriage.”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/22/1395522/-Jeb-s-right-wing-turn-fight-for-traditional-marriage-must-continue-irrespective-of-the-courts

the only War on Heterosexual marriage is in duped, hate-filled, Bible humping Christian brains.

If the SCOTUS5 makes same sex marriage a Federal right, maybe this week, or next, who really thinks same-sex partners are gonna "ram same-sex marriage down the throats" of pastors, and businesses, AND that heterosexual marriage and families will be attacked and destroyed, as the "Christian" grifters propagandize?

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White House contenders Trump, Bush in virtual dead heathttp://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/11/us-usa-election-idUSKCN0PL0DA20150711?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews

Trump exposes all y'all Repugs as racist, jingoist, ignorant assholes! :lol

The Repug base is really way-low-down "base"! :lol

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Jeb Bush accuses Obama of creating ‘chaos’ in the world by using too many big words


In an interview with the Union Leader (http://www.unionleader.com/article/20150709/NEWS0605/150709206/0/FRONTPAGE), aspiring 2016 Republican presidential nominee Jeb Bush took a slap at the foreign policies of President Barack Obama, stating that the leader of the free world uses too many big words and wastes his time at conferences with world leaders instead of forging ahead.

“This guy — this president and Secretary Clinton and Secretary Kerry – when someone disagrees with their nuanced approach where it’s all kind of so sophisticated it makes no sense."

"You know what I’m saying?” :lol

Bush continued, “Big syllable words and lots of fancy conferences and meetings and – We’re not leading. That creates chaos. It creates a more dangerous world. So restoring the alliances that have kept the world safer and our country safer – getting back to a position in the Middle East where there’s no light between Israel and the United States.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/jeb-bush-accuses-obama-of-creating-chaos-in-the-world-by-using-too-many-big-words/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

JEB, "the smart brother", pandering to the uneducated, ignorant, grunting, monosyllabic Repug base and to Christian Supremacist Taliban End Timers who plan to visit Israel soon, 40% believe world in already in End Times, when mythical Christ returns.

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White House contenders Trump, Bush in virtual dead heat

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/11/us-usa-election-idUSKCN0PL0DA20150711?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews

Trump exposes all y'all Repugs as racist, jingoist, ignorant assholes! :lol

The Repug base is really way-low-down "base"! :lol


Don’t Believe GOP Criticism – Donald Trump Speaks For The Party And The Base

It is true that Donald Trump is an unqualified presidential candidate and a filthy rich, vane, bigoted bloviate. But he is very popular with the Republican base for a simple reason. He, more than any Republican candidate for president, best represents the GOP’s base because unlike the rest of the Republicans seeking the presidential nomination, he is unafraid to speak for the Party and the typical Republican voter. It is why in a recent CNN national poll Trump is in second place among the GOP field, and second in recent polls from Iowa and New Hampshire, both crucial early contests.

Unlike the “professional” politicians, Trump has no overwhelming need to form party alliances or “build a team of party professionals,” so he says precisely what he and the Republican base believes it means to be “real Americans.”

There is more proof Trump is the ideal Republican in a couple of recent surveys, and one particularly telling news story. Republican voters hate Hispanic immigrants as a matter of course whether they are documented, undocumented, or American citizens. Some Republican presidential candidates did criticize Trump’s xenophobic and bigoted remarks about Mexican immigrants, but their true sentiments were revealed when every potential Republican candidate turned down an invitation from the nation’s largest Latino advocacy group to attend its annual convention next week.

Conservative media is prone to lying profusely, but in the case of Trump’s bigotry, a fair majority of them were truthful in rallying (http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/07/09/the-conservative-media-war-over-donald-trump/204312#magnificent) to his defense by claiming Trump was only saying out loud what Republican professional politicians and the base knows needed to be said.

For example, Fox News’ Monica Crowley said Republican voters love Donald Trump because “he’s a straight talker and he’s giving voice to what a lot of voters believe about the state of the country right now. And he’s fearlessly doing it.” According to Crowley, Trump is performing a great service for the rest of the candidates “if they’re smart enough to follow his lead; he is not caving in to the leftist intimidation tactics, and he is doing a lot of political blocking for the other candidates by saying things that need to be said.”Sean Hannity also defended Trump and said, “We’ve got a problem in this country. Floor to ceiling drugs confiscated by people crossing our southern border. You want to talk about crime? Who’s coming from Latin America and Mexico? Are they rich, successful Mexicans, Nicaraguans, El Salvador residents? No!“ A

Fox News radio host, Todd Starnes said “Trump has nothing to apologize for. He was telling the truth, people crossing the border from one country into another was called an invasion. They used to fight wars over stuff like that. But now they just play politics.” Another conservative, John Hinderaker, wrote that “Donald Trump was right. At least he understands why Americans are so angry; the Left’s effort to shut Trump up should be a teachable moment.”

Washed-up rocker, draft dodger, pedophile, and extremely popular National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent thinks that “instead of being condemned and lampooned, Donald Trump should be given the Medal of Freedom for speaking in such a bold, honest, and straight-forward manner. I dare anybody to show me one word from Trump that isn’t accurate. What sort of denial gagged liar denies that our country is being invaded by drug runners, murderers and rapists?”

While establishment Republicans will never admit it openly, conservative media not only speaks for the Party, it speaks for the bigoted base that is not just bigoted against Latinos.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/07/11/dont-gop-criticism-donald-trump-speaks-party-base.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29 (http://www.politicususa.com/2015/07/11/dont-gop-criticism-donald-trump-speaks-party-base.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29)

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Self-Proclaimed Champion of Veterans Jeb Bush, Supported Switfboating John Kerry
Jeb Bush (https://twitter.com/JebBush)
(https://twitter.com/JebBush)✔@JebBush (https://twitter.com/JebBush)

Enough with the slanderous attacks. @SenJohnMcCain (https://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain) and all our veterans - particularly POWs have earned our respect and admiration.
12:19 PM - 18 Jul 2015 (https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/622455579928203264)

As Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Jay Bookman thenpointedly asked (https://twitter.com/jaybookmanajc/status/622459499656409088), “Yeah. Just like the respect that John Kerry got in ’04?”

It turns out that in 2005, Jeb thought one veteran in particularshould be attacked. He even thanked other veterans for swiftboating John Kerry, whom Republican conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi, who has never served his country, decided to accuse of cowardice (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21239-2004Aug21.html) in order to keep him out of the White House:Here is a bigger shot at the letter proving Jeb Bush thinks veterans are fair game for slander:

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/07/19/self-proclaimed-champion-veterans-jeb-bush-supported-switfboating-john-kerry.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

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Jeb Bush Promises to Curb Lobbying and Cut Size of Government

Jeb Bush (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/15/us/elections/jeb-bush.html?inline=nyt-per) outlined on Monday a sweeping and detailed plan to rein in the size of the federal government and to curb the influence of the lobbyists who live off it,

calling for a 10 percent reduction in workers,

an immediate hiring freeze,

a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget :lol

and a six-year waiting period before members of Congress can become lobbyists.

Mr. Bush said his policies could reduce the size of the federal work force by 10 percent in four years. Much of that, he said, would be accomplished through attrition and a strict system of replacing every three departing federal workers with one new employee.

In a proposal likely to be greeted with deep opposition from federal workers and the unions that represent them, Mr. Bush demanded changes to the Civil Service system that would make it far easier to punish and replace employees.

Mr. Bush wants Congress to introduce a bill that would dock members pay for days when they are absent from work.

“The reality,” he said, “is that Congress is in session for three days in a typical week anyway, so it’s not asking too much that every member be there and work on those days.”


http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/us/politics/jeb-bush-promises-to-curb-lobbying-and-cut-size-of-government.html?_r=1

No chance in hell but JEB, the not-much-smarter brother, continues the hate-govt, hate-govt-unions, hate govt-spending (except for MIC spending and tax expenditures for BigCorp) bullshit.

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Time To Stop Treating Jeb Bush As A Serious Candidate As He Dips to 7 Percent In Iowa Poll

A Monmouth Poll released on Monday July 20, 2015, finds former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is polling just 7 percent with likely Iowa Republican caucus voters. At 7 percent support, Bush is in a distant fourth place, tied with Texas Senator Ted Cruz.

Bush trails (http://www.monmouth.edu/assets/0/32212254770/32212254991/32212254992/32212254994/32212254995/30064771087/e6c48f94-1380-45b6-80e4-dbaf5f5f78ad.pdf)Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (22 percent), wealthy businessman Donald Trump (13 percent) and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson (8 percent).

While Bush’s fourth place standing should be concerning enough for his campaign, it may understate how much trouble the former Florida Governor faces ahead in Iowa. Of the 17 Republican candidates polled, Bush is one of only 5 who are viewed unfavorably by Iowa Republicans.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/07/20/time-stop-treating-jeb-bush-candidate-dips-7-percent-iowa-poll.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

Not that tiny, rural, pig-chicken-stinkin', pig-chicken-polluted IA is significant, but JEB sure seems to be in a hole. He'll probably do better in more populous red states. He's Wall St's choice.

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half-brained JEB didn't address a problem as big if not bigger: revolving door between non-elected govt officials and industry jobs.

Warren outhinks JEBBO

"Wall Street insiders have enough influence in Washington already without locking up one powerful job after another in the Executive Branch of our government.

Sure, private sector experience can be valuable – no one ever said otherwise – but there is a point at which the revolving door compromises public interest. And we are way beyond that point."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/17/1403283/-Senator-Warren-Anyone-running-for-President-should-say-loud-and-clear?detail=email

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Jeb Bush, pandering to Kochs, calls for an end to Medicare (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/23/1404989/-Jeb-Bush-pandering-to-Kochs-calls-for-an-end-to-Medicare)

Here's exactly what he said Wednesday at a New Hampshire event sponsored by the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity:


The left needs to join the conversation, but they haven't. I mean, when [Rep. Paul Ryan] came up with one of his proposals as it relates to Medicare, the first thing I saw was a TV ad of a guy that looked just like Paul Ryan … that was pushing an elderly person off the cliff in a wheelchair. That’s their response.And I think we need to be vigilant about this and persuade people that our, when your volunteers go door to door, and they talk to people, people understand this.

They know, and I think a lot of people recognize that we need to make sure we fulfill the commitment to people that have already received the benefits, that are receiving the benefits.

But that we need to figure out a way to phase out this program for others and move to a new system that allows them to have something—because they’re not going to have anything.



Actually, that's Jeb! being honest about Republicans' goals and policies.

Medicare is hugely popular (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/18/1403228/-Medicare-and-Medicaid-still-hugely-popular-Republican-policies-still-hugely-unpopular) with those "people" he's talking about that are hearing the Kochs' message on their doorsteps. Only about a quarter of people actually support Ryan's voucher system, the kind of change Jeb! says is necessary.

What's more, he's behind in his news. Thanks in large part to Obamacare, Medicare is on very solid footing (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/22/1404700/-Thanks-Obama-Medicare-still-on-stable-footing-with-Obamacare). It's going to be around for a long time. A lot longer than Jeb, if he keeps up this kind of talk.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/23/1404989/-Jeb-Bush-pandering-to-Kochs-calls-for-an-end-to-Medicare?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29#

The not-very-much-smarter brother is still pretty fucking stupid.

Even the "marans" say: "Govt, keep your hands off my Medicare"

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and he's just fucking stupid

Jeb Bush Says No One Should Apologize For Telling Black Activists That ‘All Lives Matter’

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush dismissed the backlash over “all lives matter” remarks as a politically correct overreaction at a campaign stop in Lancaster, New Hampshire on Thursday.

He was referring to an event at Netroots Nation last weekend (http://www.mediaite.com/online/black-lives-matter-activists-take-over-netroots-nation-to-confront-martin-omalley/), when Black Lives Matter activists disrupted an event with Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley, who said, “Black lives matter. White lives matter. All lives matter.” He later apologized for the remarks.

Bush said firmly that the former Maryland governor should not have apologized.

“No, for crying out loud, no. We’re so uptight and so politically correct now that we apologize for saying lives matter?” Bush said. “Life is precious. It’s a gift from God. I frankly think that it’s one of the most important values that we have. I know that in the political context it’s a slogan, I guess. Should he have apologized? No.”

The former Florida governor went on to suggest that those who use the phrase “Black Lives Matter” believe that white lives do not.

“If [O’Malley] believes that white lives matter, which I hope he does, then he shouldn’t apologize to a group that seemed to disagree with it,”

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/07/23/3684015/jeb-bush-all-lives-matter/

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Jeb Bush ditches openness to budget deal with some tax increases for big spending cuts

Jeb Bush says as president he would not accept any tax increases as part of a deal to slash government spending, going back on what he had to say few years ago.

“No,” Bush flatly told Politico’s Mike Allen during a Sunday forum in California hosted by the Koch bros-funded Freedom Partners. "We've raised taxes. What we need to be doing it entitlement reform, curbing the growth of spending, creating a high-growth scenario.

"If you grow at 4 percent for year, I can guarantee you that the revenue that comes to government, instead of the 2 percent growth, in far exceeds any of the exotic taxation ideas that come from DeBlasio or Clinton or any of the most progressives on the planet."

Allen replied that it sounded as if Bush had effectively taken Grover Norquist's no-new-tax pledge. "No," Bush shot back, "I don't sign pledges."

In 2012, Bush had a different perspective.

“If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we’re going to have $10 in spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement -- put me in, coach,” Bush told the House Budget Committee in June of that year. “This will prove I’m not running for anything."

Bush then was commenting on the hard-line approach taken by Republican presidential candidates during a 2011 debate in which they all all said they would reject a deal providing $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in revenue.

Like Marco Rubio earlier in the day, Bush put in a strong performance, providing forceful answers and gaining frequent applause from the big name donors in the room.

http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/jeb-bush-ditches-openness-to-budget-deal-with-some-tax-increases-for-big/2239728

Jeb grovelling like a little whore before the Kock Bros. Kocks are going with their Kockenstein monster Walker for now. Jeb grovelling for Kock's $Ms

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Jeb Bush Isn’t Sure If We Should Spend Half A Billion On ‘Women’s Health Issues’


Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said at the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday that he wasn’t sure if the government should be spending half a billion dollars on “women’s health issues.”

“The next president should defund Planned Parenthood,” he said.

“The argument against this is, well women’s health issues, you’re attacking, it’s a war on women, and you’re attacking women’s health issues.

You could take dollar for dollar, although I’m not sure we need a half a billion dollars for women’s health issues, but if you took dollar for dollar there are many extraordinary fine organizations, community health organizations, that exist to provide quality care for women on wide variety of health issues.

But abortion should not be funded by the government, any government, in my mind.” small as it is, no-so-smart brother! :lol

http://cdn.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/04164804/plannedparenthoodgraph.jpg

But what is unclear is whether Bush knows that federal funding for abortion is already prohibited through the Hyde amendment, a policy that’s been in place since the 1970s (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/03/17/3634733/hyde-amendment-trafficking-bill/) and that has beendisastrous for low-income women (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/09/30/3573825/hyde-anniversary-activism/).

Some have argued (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-cut-planned-parenthoods-funds-increase-them/2015/07/31/fe66aad8-379e-11e5-b673-1df005a0fb28_story.html) that defunding Planned Parenthood would actually increase the number of abortions, as the organization provides so many crucial women’s health services to prevent pregnancy.

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/08/04/3688072/jeb-bush-southern-baptist-convention/

yeah, JEB, it really is misogynist Repugs' War on Women, esp poor black, brown women.

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Jeb Bush backtracks after questioning whether US ‘needs’ $500 million for womens’ health


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/jeb-bush-backtracks-after-questioning-whether-us-needs-500-million-for-womens-health/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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The Big Jeb Bush Charter School Lie: Why His Florida Education "Miracle" Is Hogwash

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32277-the-big-jeb-bush-charter-school-lie-why-his-florida-education-miracle-is-hogwash

[boutons_deux]

the not-so-smart brother dubya2 said he knows how to obtain 4% economic growth indefinitely. The longterm avg is 2%.

FL economy grew 4% that JEB claims as his own, but it was all due to the housing/credit bubble, which of course screwed FL very badly in the Banksters Great Depression.

[DMX7]

Jeb Bush backtracks after questioning whether US ‘needs’ $500 million for womens’ health


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/jeb-bush-backtracks-after-questioning-whether-us-needs-500-million-for-womens-health/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

He knew exactly what he was saying... can't blame it on misspeaking.

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Jeb! Bush on the run from the fact that he once belonged to organization that does good things (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/10/1410709/-Jeb-Bush-on-the-run-from-the-fact-that-he-once-belonged-to-organization-that-does-good-nbsp-things)


One of the big "gotchas" of last Thursday's Republican debate was directed at Jeb! Bush for having been on the board of the Bloomberg Family Foundation director from March 2010 until he stepped down in late 2014. Jeb! said he was only on the board because it did stuff with education, he didn't know about the Foundation's work with Planned Parenthood, and that he had a solid record of forcing Florida's women to have limited reproductive health choices and to have babies whether they wanted them or not.So here is the work of the Foundation (http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/jeb-bush-role-in-michael-bloomberg-charity-planned-parenthood-121168.html?hp=t4_r) that Jeb! thinks he has to run away from.


Since 2006, the foundation has invested (http://www.bloomberg.org/program/public-health/maternal-health/solution/) more than $12 million alone in a maternal health program in Tanzania. The additional $50 million Bloomberg announced in 2012 helped to expand the Tanzania project, which provided family planning, as well as post-abortion care, in several health centers. Abortion is largely illegal in Tanzania except to save the life of the mother, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights.The money also paid for “advocacy grants” to organizations in Nicaragua, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Uganda to improve access to reproductive health services, contraception and family planning information.

Those four countries were jointly selected by Bloomberg’s philanthropy and Planned Parenthood Global, the international division of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

“When women have the power to decide if and when to have children there are fewer unintended pregnancies, fewer maternal deaths, and greater opportunities for women, families and their communities,” Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement in 2014. “To do this, governments need to play a stronger role to ensure that all women have access to the health care they need, no matter who they are, no matter where they live.”


Saving non-American women's lives clearly is not something Jeb! wants to be associated with. Not that Jeb!

"I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women’s health issues" Bush has such a stellar record on women's health issues (http://factivists.democrats.org/jeb-bushs-record-and-plans-on-womens-health-speak-for-themselves/) here at home, either.

This is the guy who blocked Medicaid funds from paying for women's health services when he was Florida's governor.

This is the guy who used his line-item veto power to axe $2 million in funding (http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/marco-rubio-2016-campaign-norman-braman-117134.html) for a breast cancer research institute AND a measly $30,000 (http://www.gainesville.com/article/20050527/WIRE/50527009) for a cervical cancer tax force.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/10/1410709/-Jeb-Bush-on-the-run-from-the-fact-that-he-once-belonged-to-organization-that-does-good-nbsp-things?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

As has been pointed out, Trump says nasty misogynist shit ABOUT WOMEN, but the Repug politicians wannabe-Pres have actually DONE misogynist shit TO WOMEN

[boutons_deux]

Jeb Bush says Hillary Clinton shares blame for Islamic State rise


http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/12/us-usa-election-bush-idUSKCN0QG09E20150812?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews

not-so-smart-brother, your cretinous sibling is 100% to blame for ISIS.

you still struggling with Iraq, "finding your footing"? EXCELLENT! :lol

[boutons_deux]

Shallow JEB

The former Florida governor was supposed to be the GOP’s next foreign policy statesman. He just proved he’s not.

Most presidential candidates who deliver a “major foreign policy address” have something original, potent, or insightful to say. On Tuesday night, as with most other aspects of his campaign to date, Jeb Bush defied expectations.

His 40-minute speech (http://www.reaganfoundation.org/details_t.aspx?p=PE40004PUAF&h1=0&h2=0&sw=&lm=programandevents&args_a=0&argsb=N&tx=3186), at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, was a hodgepodge of revisionist history, shallow analysis, and vague prescriptions.

The history—his effort to hide the scar of his own family history—was where he placed most of his chips, and he lost them all.

As a preface, he admitted that “no leader or policymaker” got “everything right” in the Middle East, “Iraq especially” (his single indirect acknowledgment of his brother’s mistakes). But, he added, “one moment stands out in memory as the turning point” of the war in that country—namely, the “surge,” which “turned events toward victory.”

“Why,” he asked, “was the success of the surge followed by a withdrawal from Iraq?” The “fatal error,” he answered, was the “premature withdrawal” ordered by President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who “stood by” as our “hard-won victory” was “thrown away” in “a blind haste to get out”—leaving a vacuum that Iran and ISIS filled.

Jeb Bush’s foreign policy speech was a hodgepodge of revisionist history, shallow analysis, and vague prescriptions.

Bush got a crucial fact wrong in this chronicle: His brother’s administration—not Obama’s—signed the status of forces agreement (http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/122074.pdf), on Nov. 17, 2008, which stated, in Article 24: “All the United States Forces shall withdraw from all Iraqi territory no later than December 31, 2011.”

Article 30 of that same agreement stated that its terms could be amended “only with the official agreement of the Parties in writing and in accordance with the constitutional procedures in effect in both countries.” These “constitutional procedures” included a vote by the Iraqi Parliament—and at no time between 2008 and 2011 was the Iraqi Parliament going to take such a vote.

Granted, President Obama did want to get out of Iraq; he won the White House in large part on that promise, and there was no more support in the United States than in Iraq for a continued presence of American troops. And yet Obama did send emissaries—among them former aides to George W. Bush—to seek an amendment to allow a few thousand residual forces. The Iraqi government refused. Unless Obama wanted to re-invade the country, there was nothing to be done.

There was another fallacy in Bush’s description of the surge: Though it was a huge tactical success, it did not pave the way toward “victory.” As its architect, Gen. David Petraeus, said on several occasions, the surge was meant merely to create some “breathing space,” a “zone of security,” so that Iraq’s political factions could form a unified government. The problem was that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki didn’t want unity: He didn’t want to make a deal on power-sharing, oil revenues, or land settlements with Sunni or Kurdish leaders; he wanted to maintain Shiite dominance—and it was Maliki’s stubbornness that revived the sectarian violence and left a lane open for ISIS, whose leaders exploited their fellow Sunnis’ resentments.


Later in Tuesday night’s speech, Bush said that the Iraq surge can serve as a model for how “Islamic moderates can be pulled away from extremist forces” in Syria. I doubt that he was proposing to send 100,000 U.S. troops to Syria, as his brother did in Iraq—an idea that would appeal to almost no American generals or voters. But what he was proposing isn’t at all clear.

Bush also decried Obama’s “limited strikes and other half-measures” against ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria. But does this mean that he’s proposing all-out strikes and full measures? As president, he said, he would “take the offensive” and “prevail” against radical Islam. He would embed the current U.S. advisers in Iraq alongside local forces—though here, he added, “We do not need, and our friends do not ask for, a major commitment of American combat forces.” Isn’t this some sort of “half-measure”? Or might embedding troops (essentially turning the advisers into combat forces) escalate our involvement to a full measure, “a major commitment”—the sort of slippery slope that Obama is taking care to avoid, rightly or wrongly. And would Bush escalate the fight if mere embedding didn’t do the job? He didn’t say.

He did say, “In all of this,” referring to the fight against jihadists, “the United States must engage with friends and allies, and lead again in that vital region.” Which friends and allies does he mean? The Saudis try to rope us into a savage, fruitless war against the Houthi rebels, whom it portrays as Iranian proxies. The Turks lend us an air base to step up strikes against ISIS but then use the moment of goodwill as cover to attack their bigger enemy, the Kurds, who rank as the jihadists’ most potent foe (and to whom Bush promised in his speech to send heavy armaments). ISIS derives much of its strength from the deep disunity of its natural foes, some of whom are our allies, some of whom aren’t. “Action, coordination and American leadership,” the solutions Bush calls for, are more complex than he—and many other Republicans who have never held national office—seems to recognize.

He criticized Obama for drawing a “red line” against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons, then failing to follow through. Many of Obama’s defenders have filed the same complaint. But what would Bush do? “Under my strategy,” he said, “the aim would be to draw the [Syrian] moderates together and back them up as one force … not just in taking the fight to the enemy but in helping them to form a stable moderate government once ISIS is defeated and Assad is gone.” How would he do this? By replicating his brother’s surge in Iraq.

After all, he added with blithe confidence, “the strategic elements in both cases are the same”—thus demonstrating that he and his speechwriters have[I]no understanding of the tangled politics in Syria or of what made the Iraqi surge work to the extent that it did.

As a first step to boosting American influence, Bush said he would reverse the “significant dismantling of our own military” ??? of the past seven years, ignoring that defense spending has been on the rise and that the current budget (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2015/02/president_obama_s_enormous_defense_budget_it_favor s_big_weapons_systems.html), amounting to $620 billion, is larger than at any time since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. One could argue for some sort of rejiggering in defense spending, but Bush didn’t do that.

Finally, Bush made a strong showing in the competition to see which Republican candidate can most pummel Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.

Like the others, he promised to undo the deal “immediately” upon taking office—ignoring that five other nations also signed the deal and are unlikely to follow such a lead. He mischaracterized the accord in a number of ways.

He lambasted “the Obama-Clinton-Kerry policy of treating the mullahs in Iran as a stabilizing force” (there is no such policy),

complained that the deal says nothing about Iran’s support for terrorism (true, but a generation of Soviet-American arms-control treaties, including some signed by the hero of this speech, Ronald Reagan, said nothing about the ravages of Communism), and

scoffed that “least of all does it prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability” (when, in fact, it does and, despite another common claim, for more than 10 years).

Throughout the speech, Bush spoke of restoring trust in American leadership. But what he proposed doing in his first days as president—scuttling a deal that the nation’s top diplomats and scientists negotiated alongside five great powers of Europe and Asia, and that the U.N. Security Council then unanimously endorsed—would shatter that trust and diminish that leadership.

When Jeb Bush entered the race, pundits and politicians proclaimed him the front-runner. At the moment, the most encouraging poll (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/11/us-usa-election-poll-idUSKCN0QF1WL20150811) puts him barely into double digits, drawing half as much support as “Undecided.” A poll out Tuesday night has him in seventh place in Iowa (http://www.politicususa.com/2015/08/11/trump-leads-jeb-bush-drops-7th-place-iowa-suffolk-poll.html), luring just 5 percent of those surveyed. Of course, all this could change, especially after—or if—Donald Trump flames out. Meanwhile, if Bush hopes to get a boost from his ideas in foreign policy, this speech isn’t likely to do the trick.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2015/08/jeb_bush_s_major_foreign_policy_address_the_former _florida_governor_s_speech.html

Listening to not-so-smart-brother's simplistic vocab, simplistic sentences, weird delivery, and generally stupid "ideas", I think he's just a ignorant, dumb, uneducated, incurious as dubya.

[boutons_deux]

he shows himself to be dumberer with every mouth opening

Jeb Bush Said The Iraq War Was A ‘Good Deal.’ Here’s Exactly What It Cost.

Speaking at a national security forum yesterday in Iowa, Jeb Bush asserted that “taking out Saddam Husseinturned out to be a pretty good deal (http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/jeb-bush-defends-george-w-bush-iraq-legacy-iowa-121337.html).”

In his remarks, Bush also refused to rule out the use of torture as an interrogation tactic and mimicked his brother’s famous declaration, saying that the “mission was accomplished (http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-13/jeb-bush-says-his-brother-s-security-mission-was-accomplished-in-iraq).”

Many of the architects of the Iraq War (http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/02/18/3624114/people-lied-iraq-now-charge-jeb-bushs-foreign-policy/) are currently advising Jeb Bush on foreign policy.

http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/08/14/3691738/jeb-bush-said-the-iraq-war-was-a-good-deal-heres-exactly-what-it-cost/

[boutons_deux]

Jeb just can’t help himself: The myth of his electability continues to fadeCalling Saddam's ouster a "pretty good deal" and name-checking Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb keeps rivals' hope aliveNot only is Jeb! now fully embracing his brother’s disastrous, bloody war of choice. He’s talking about it in a glib salesman way, reminding us that the war was in fact

“a pretty good deal” for his cronies (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7f435f04-8c05-11e2-b001-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3inZc3YQv):

for Halliburton spinoff KBR,

the entire defense industry, and

a metastasizing web of private security contractors including disgraced giant Blackwater.

The families of the dead and wounded in Iraq might disagree.
Things got worse in his speech Friday, where he volunteered that “Paul Wolfowitz is giving some advice.” Wolfowitz, the scowling face of the smug neocons.
I’ve asked this before: Does Bush even want to win?
Donald Trump claimed Bush had his “47 percent moment” – the comment that doomed Mitt Romney — when he suggested we’re spending too much on women’s health. But his dumb remark about toppling Saddam being “a pretty good deal” could rival that. Then again,

there are so many contenders for the inconvenient, inadvertent truth-telling moment that could doom Bush (http://www.salon.com/2015/08/05/jeb_bush_worst_candidate_ever_does_this_man_even_w ant_to_be_president/):

suggesting underpaid American workers “need to work more hours;”

that “the federal government shouldn’t be doing this” when asked about the minimum wage;

arguing that we should be “phasing out” Medicare.
http://www.salon.com/2015/08/14/jeb_just_cant_help_himself_the_myth_of_his_electab ility_continues_to_fade/

Maybe Bill Maher's comment should be that "smart brother" ISN'T named JEB? :lol

[boutons_deux]

Bush campaign lied about meeting with Black Lives Matter activists (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/14/1412130/-Bush-campaign-lied-about-meeting-with-Black-Lives-Matter-activists)

If you were suspicious on hearing the news that Jeb Bush, of all people, had a "face to face" meeting (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/13/black-lives-matter-activists-jeb-bush-meet-face-to-face/) with Black Lives Matter activists in order to address their concerns, you were right. It turns out the Bush campaign simply lied about it (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-black-lives-matter_55cdfee6e4b0ab468d9d02ab?4ndn29).


There was a meeting, but no activists from the Black Lives Matter movement participated.

Instead, Bush met with a local elected official, a GOP lobbyist and a staffer from an anti-poverty organization. [...]

There were three people at the table with Bush.

Hooks confirmed that a member of his staff [from the Las Vegas Urban League] was one of them.

North Las Vegas Mayor Pro Tem Pamela Goynes-Brown was the second, and she said the third attendee was Sean Fellows, a registered lobbyist for a communications firm who once ran as a Republican candidate for state assembly.


And without disparaging any of those fine people, none of them are, you will note, activists in the Black Lives Matter campaign and the movement itself was not discussed during the 15-minute meeting.

It may be that Jeb Bush and the people surrounding him genuinely cannot tell the difference between Black Lives Matter activists and a group of other people, some of whom are black, or it may be that a member of the Urban League, a local mayor and a registered lobbyist is about the most grassrootsy crowd the Bush campaign is willing to meet with (commoners give him hives), or it may be that the Black Lives Matter activists were indeed invited to the meeting but got stuck in traffic and nobody on Jeb's staff noticed their absence—but the Jeb campaign pointedly said he met with Black Lives Matter activists before their disruption of his Las Vegas event. And Jeb pointedly did no such thing.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/14/1412130/-Bush-campaign-lied-about-meeting-with-Black-Lives-Matter-activists?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

they all look the same to Repugs.

[SpursforSix]

Bush campaign lied about meeting with Black Lives Matter activists (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/14/1412130/-Bush-campaign-lied-about-meeting-with-Black-Lives-Matter-activists)

If you were suspicious on hearing the news that Jeb Bush, of all people, had a "face to face" meeting (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/13/black-lives-matter-activists-jeb-bush-meet-face-to-face/) with Black Lives Matter activists in order to address their concerns, you were right. It turns out the Bush campaign simply lied about it (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-black-lives-matter_55cdfee6e4b0ab468d9d02ab?4ndn29).


There was a meeting, but no activists from the Black Lives Matter movement participated.

Instead, Bush met with a local elected official, a GOP lobbyist and a staffer from an anti-poverty organization. [...]

There were three people at the table with Bush.

Hooks confirmed that a member of his staff [from the Las Vegas Urban League] was one of them.

North Las Vegas Mayor Pro Tem Pamela Goynes-Brown was the second, and she said the third attendee was Sean Fellows, a registered lobbyist for a communications firm who once ran as a Republican candidate for state assembly.


And without disparaging any of those fine people, none of them are, you will note, activists in the Black Lives Matter campaign and the movement itself was not discussed during the 15-minute meeting.

It may be that Jeb Bush and the people surrounding him genuinely cannot tell the difference between Black Lives Matter activists and a group of other people, some of whom are black, or it may be that a member of the Urban League, a local mayor and a registered lobbyist is about the most grassrootsy crowd the Bush campaign is willing to meet with (commoners give him hives), or it may be that the Black Lives Matter activists were indeed invited to the meeting but got stuck in traffic and nobody on Jeb's staff noticed their absence—but the Jeb campaign pointedly said he met with Black Lives Matter activists before their disruption of his Las Vegas event. And Jeb pointedly did no such thing.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/14/1412130/-Bush-campaign-lied-about-meeting-with-Black-Lives-Matter-activists?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

they all look the same to Repugs.




http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/883100/83074113.gif

[boutons_deux]

Jeb Bush Calls Common Core ‘Poisonous,’ Forgets He Actually Supports It

Former Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush had an awkward conversation about Common Core education standards this week, calling the initiative’s name “poisonous” while attempting to appeal to conservatives who oppose the program — even though he supports it.

While speaking (http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/run-2016/2015/08/14/jeb-bush-common-core-is-poisonous) at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Friday, former Florida governor Bush tried to talk his way around a question about the Common Core Standards Initiative, an education policy initiated by the National Governors Association (http://thinkprogress.org/education/2014/02/20/3010891/obama-common-core-teachers/) that tries to bring education standards into alignment nationwide.

“The term ‘Common Core’ is so darn poisonous, I don’t even know what it means,” Bush said. “[But] I’m for higher standards — state-created, locally implemented — where the federal government has no role in the creation of standards, content or curriculum.”

The evasive answer appears to be an attempt to sidestep widespread Republican opposition to the policy, which is rooted in the misconception that it amounts to a “federal takeover (http://www.freedomworks.org/content/top-10-reasons-oppose-common-core)” of the education system — even though the standards were created by state governors (http://thinkprogress.org/education/2014/02/20/3010891/obama-common-core-teachers/), not the federal government, and developed at the state level.

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/08/15/3692060/jeb-bush-decries-policy-he-definitely-supports/

Repug/tea bagger LIE: Common Core is a Federal fascistic, authoritarian takeover of education, violating (secessionist) "states rights".

... but it's lies that really get you dumbfuck rednecks and Bible humpers lathered up.

[Blake]

Jeb putting on the tweeter gloves

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[boutons_deux]

Jeb is just fucking stupid. His FL is dead set against roof top solar and 1000s of jobs, while protecting the utilities.

nothing specific from Jeb, just drill baby drill in the "tough oil" Arctic. I bet Shell continues to fail up there. what's the price of Arctic oil per barrel? cheaper than US continental fracked oil. which already a lot more expensive than M/E oil?

[Blake]

Nobody is saying you need to hug a tree but damn :lol Jeb is stupid for announcing he is all oil on the twitters

[DMX7]

Low energy prices isn't doing much for the U.S.

Just more job layoffs in Texas.

[boutons_deux]

Top Jeb Bush Adviser Vin Weber Signs to Lobby for Anti-Gay Uganda Government (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/18/jeb-bush-advisor-signs-lobby-anti-gay-uganda-government/)

A top adviser to the Jeb Bush campaign has signed on to lobby for Uganda’s virulently anti-gay government.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni last year signed into law a bill that criminalizes homosexuality, with some acts punishable by life in prison. The move was widely condemned, both internationally and within the United States. President Barack Obama sharply criticized the anti-gay law, telling Museveni that it would “complicate our valued relationship” and mark a “step backward” for all Ugandans.

In desperate need to improve its image in Washington, Uganda has turned to Vin Weber, a well-connected lobbyist who is advising Bush’s presidential campaign.

Uganda hired (http://www.fara.gov/docs/6170-Exhibit-AB-20150813-13.pdf) Mercury Public Affairs, Weber’s firm, for a $50,000 per month retainer with Weber as the only registered (http://www.fara.gov/docs/6170-Short-Form-20150817-90.pdf) lobbyist on the account. The contract calls for Mercury to provide general “lobbying services” as well as communication services to promote trade and investment opportunities in Uganda.

Weber joined the Bush campaign effort in February as an outside advisor. According to the Washington Post, Weber has worked behind the scenes todevelop (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/02/17/vin-weber-signs-on-with-jeb-bush/) ties between Bush and major donors and conservative leaders. He told the Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/06/15/jeb-bushs-k-street-connections/) in June that he intends to “coordinate policy” for the campaign.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/18/jeb-bush-advisor-signs-lobby-anti-gay-uganda-government/

[SpursforSix]

Low energy prices isn't doing much for the U.S.

Just more job layoffs in Texas.

Do you have backup for the Texas job loss? Not necessisarily disagreeing. Just curious.

[CosmicCowboy]

Do you have backup for the Texas job loss? Not necessisarily disagreeing. Just curious.

Seriously?

25,400 in March alone...

http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2015/04/turn-of-the-tables-texas-led-nation-in-job-losses-in-march.html/

[SpursforSix]

Seriously?

25,400 in March alone...

http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2015/04/turn-of-the-tables-texas-led-nation-in-job-losses-in-march.html/

Ah...my bad. I was specifically thinking of energy jobs. And maybe DMX was talking about the broader number like you. But thanks for posting because it answered my question as well.

[DMX7]

Ah...my bad. I was specifically thinking of energy jobs. And maybe DMX was talking about the broader number like you. But thanks for posting because it answered my question as well.

We're losing energy jobs too of course. A quick google search will reveal that. Baker Hughes, Shell, Chevron, Marathon, Halliburton have each announced or already enacted layoffs in the thousands.

[SpursforSix]

We're losing energy jobs too of course. A quick google search will reveal that. Baker Hughes, Shell, Chevron, Marathon, Halliburton have each announced or already enacted layoffs in thousands.

Thanks. It would make sense. I didn't know the extent. And was guessing that other states with more marginal plays might have fared worse. But the gross number including the collateral damage was pretty staggering.

[CosmicCowboy]

Rig count in Texas is about 1/3 what it was last year. Thats a ton of good paying jobs gone.

http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/files/2015/02/AX048_0102_9.jpg

here is a pcture of just some of the drilling rigs stacked in Midland

[SpursforSix]

Rig count in Texas is about 1/3 what it was last year. Thats a ton of good paying jobs gone.http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/files/2015/02/AX048_0102_9.jpghere is a pcture of just some of the drilling rigs stacked in MidlandHoly shit. I didn't realize they could drill wells on that small of spacing. I'm assuming adjacent wells are drilling to different formations?

[DMX7]

Holy shit. I didn't realize they could drill wells on that small of spacing. I'm assuming adjacent wells are drilling to different formations?

These rigs are stacked (i.e., doing nothing).

[TeyshaBlue]

Although dual or triple completion wells are not uncommon.

These share a bore but complete at different depths. The pumpjacks can look pretty wheels off. :lol

[SpursforSix]

Although dual or triple completion wells are not uncommon.

These share a bore but complete at different depths. The pumpjacks can look pretty wheels off. :lol

Lol. America! Fuck yeah!
I guess they can save with less company men on location.

[CosmicCowboy]

Although dual or triple completion wells are not uncommon.

These share a bore but complete at different depths. The pumpjacks can look pretty wheels off. :lol

I have seen as many as 7 on 1 pad down in the Eagle Ford.

[TeyshaBlue]

They've got 4 outside of Post, up on the Caprock. They're painted up as donkeys.:lol

[SpursforSix]

Although dual or triple completion wells are not uncommon.

These share a bore but complete at different depths. The pumpjacks can look pretty wheels off. :lol

Oh damn. I thought you were making a joke about the stacked rigs all drilling into the same master bore.
I realize what stacked rigs are but was trying to be funny.

Although pics from Kilgore during the East Tx boom have rigs set up not too dissimilar.

[SpursforSix]

They've got 4 outside of Post, up on the Caprock. They're painted up as donkeys.:lol

I can think of some funny x rated themes that could be done.

[boutons_deux]

JEB, in sync with Americans

Jeb! Bush Thinks We Haven't Given the NSA Enough Power to Spy on Us (http://gizmodo.com/jeb-bush-thinks-we-havent-given-the-nsa-enough-power-t-1724925017)


He’s trailing an openly misogynistic troll doll in the polls, but Jeb Bush has outdone his opponents in the “slavish praise for the government’s surveillance apparatus” department. Bush thinks we need more NSA surveillance, not less.

“There’s a place to find common ground between personal civil liberties and NSA doing its job,” Jeb! said at a national security conference in South Carolina today. “I think the balance has actually gone the wrong way.”

Bush reaffirmed his belief (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-nsa_55d39f5fe4b055a6dab1d777?utm_hp_ref=tw&kvcommref=mostpopular)that the NSA’s old policies didn’t do shit to our civil liberties, and were necessary to thwart “evildoers”:

Bush doubled down Tuesday on his assertions that there is “no evidence” the data collection violated civil liberties. “I’ve found not one” case, he said.

Bush also criticized private technology firms for using encryption to make it harder for their customers to be surveilled. “It makes it harder for the American government to do its job while protecting civil liberties to make sure evildoers aren’t in our midst,” he said.

But here’s the frightening part: Bush might actually mean some of the hawkish twaddle he’s peddling. Back in April, he called (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/04/23/heres-where-the-presidential-candidates-stand-on-the-nsa-scooping-up-americans-phone-records/) supporting the NSA “the best part of the Obama administration.”

In February, he called (http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/18/politics/jeb-bush-2016-nsa-spying/) the NSA’s data collection “responsible” and “hugely important.”


The only thing scarier than an empty suit is a true believer.


http://gizmodo.com/jeb-bush-thinks-we-havent-given-the-nsa-enough-power-t-1724925017?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29

[boutons_deux]

Lehman Brothers Gave Jeb Bush $1.3 Million After He Gave It Control of Florida Pensions

International Business Times' David Sirota, Matthew Cunningham-Cook and Andrew Perez have the scoop (http://www.ibtimes.com/election-2016-jeb-bush-got-13m-job-lehman-after-florida-shifted-pension-cash-bank-2059224) on a conflict of interest that handed former Florida governor Jeb Bush more than a million dollars.

They report that in 2005 and 2006, the bank — which later ended up collapsing during the financial crisis — was given control of $250 million of Florida pension funds belonging to police officers, firefighters and teachers. The bank ended up earning over $5 million in fees from managing the fund, and getting an additional $1.2 billion before it ended up collapsing in 2008.

The collapse left Florida with $1 billion in losses. By that point, Bush had already departed the governor's mansion, but reaped the benefits. He nabbed a job at Lehman that paid him $1.3 million.

“The Bush family is so wired that Jeb Bush would be incredibly valuable to Lehman even without him having thrown some business their direction,” former Senate financial staffer Jeff Connaughton told IBTimes. “The fact that he did shows once again that there is utterly zero deterrence preventing public officials from being on the receiving end of pay to play when they leave office. It’s par for the course— it has the appearance that Bush was using his public office for personal gain.”

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/lehman-brothers-gave-jeb-bush-13-million-after-he-gave-it-control-florida-pensions

[boutons_deux]

Jeb Bush Campaign Rocked by Money Woes, Loss of Three Fundraisers

Already on a rocks from a variety of self-inflicted wounds, the Bush campaign has cut staffer pay and now lost three skilled fundraisers.

John Ellis “Jeb” Bush’s campaign was already in trouble (http://www.politicususa.com/2015/08/25/jeb-bushs-campaign-collapsing-voters-reject-bush-white-house.html) going into this weekend, simply because voters aren’t fooled by his Jeb!persona, minus the Bush.

We all know who he is, even Republicans.

Keep in mind, this was the GOP’s presumptive frontrunner going into the 2016 campaign cycle.As of August 25, The New York Times editorial board was calling him (http://nyti.ms/1LyzXtM) a “forlorn candidate,” and by Friday, August 28, Bush was telling a crowd (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/28/jeb-bush-donald-trump-should-be-treated-like-the-front-runner/) that Trump “is a guy that’s the front-runner, he should be treated like the front-runner.”

Bad as they were, things just got worse, with Politico reporting (http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/jeb-bush-president-2016-fundraisers-problems-213156)Saturday that “Three top Jeb Bush fundraisers abruptly parted ways with his presidential campaign on Friday, amid internal personality conflicts and questions about the strength of his candidacy.”

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/08/30/jeb-bush-campaign-rocked-loss-fundraisers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

[boutons_deux]

Jeb Bush Made Millions Giving Investors Billions Of Florida Pension Funds To Lose

http://i2.wp.com/www.politicususa.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/jeb-dumb.png?zoom=1.5&resize=485%2C309

For Florida taxpayers, their trust in then-Governor Jeb Bush to protect their lifelong pension savings was wasted when he forged a highly-profitable relationship with Lehman Brothers that made Lehman and Bush millions.

That special relationship was ultimately a certifiable disaster for Florida public employees. While governor of Florida, Jeb Bush made some deceitful transfers of funds in 2005 and 2006 that put the Wall Street investment bank in charge of $250 million worth of pension funds for Florida cops, teachers and firefighters.

Lehman profited by more than $5 million in fees on the initial deal with Jeb Bush, and they garnered several additional contracts to manipulate, and then lose, another $1.2 billion of Florida teachers, firefighters, police officers, and other public servant’s pensions.

Of course those horrific losses came after profits for Lehman and Florida Governor Jeb Bush.

When Lehman collapsed into bankruptcy in the fall of 2008, it left Florida’s public employee pension funds with over $1 billion in losses, but good old Jeb kept the $1.3 million (http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-06-30/jeb-bush-made-29-million-after-leaving-office-tax-returns-show) in annual salary Lehman paid him as a consultant, or for giving them access to billions of Florida public workers’ pension savings.

Being Florida’s governor and having access to billions of state employees’ retirement savings, coupled with an “enduring personal relationship” with Lehman Brothers was a very lucrative endeavor for Bush.

It is a similar relationship and lucrative scam to that of several other Republican governors who repay their big-money donors with public employee’s pension savings that Republicans persist in claiming belongs to the rich.

It is prescient to note that Jeb was shifting state pension money to privatization for “management” and predictable losses at about the same time his brother George was crusading to do exactly the same thing with all Americans’ Social Security retirement savings.

It was no coincidence that within a couple of weeks after Jeb Bush left the governor’s mansion and took the Lehman job with a handsome salary courtesy of stolen Florida employees’ pensions, the Florida State Board of Administration (SBA) handed over to Lehman additional pension money, $842 million (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=nw&pname=mm_0208_story2.html), to buy worthless Lehman mortgage-backed securities the company lost.

In fact, to add insult to the billions of dollars in lost pension savings, the Florida SBA shifted an additional $420 million (https://www.sbafla.com/fsb/Portals/Internet/Reports/Annual/2007_2008_AIR.pdf) of pension savings into the exact same fund that good old Jeb initially sent stolen pension money to squander.

It is noteworthy that the Florida SBA, that three-member body that gave away billions of state employees’ retirement savings recently counted Jeb Bush as one of the three.

What makes this theft even more egregious is that Bush’s colleagues in the Florida state capital moved billions of Florida employees’ pension money to Bush’s buddies at Lehman even as dire warnings (http://ijbssnet.com/journals/Vol_2_No_20_November_2011/6.pdf) about its financial troubles began to grow very loud.

However, while teachers, firefighters, law enforcement and state workers lost billions of their lifelong pension savings, Jeb Bush got his millions, and Lehman got its millions for “managing” the pilfered money.

And, it is notable that it was not an isolated Florida Bush incident using employee pensions for profit.

Just a few years earlier another Bush pension scam profited all the Bushes as well as a number of obscenely wealthy investment and financial firms, and it was all with Florida employees’ pension savings to keep George W. Bush in the White House.


In April it was revealed that while he was governor, Jeb also funneled billions of Florida pension money to his brother George’s largest campaign donors as remuneration for their huge political contributions to put and keep a Wall Street friendly Bush in the White House.

The Florida SBA, of which Jeb was one of three members, committed close to $2 billion of Florida employees’ pension money to financial firms whose executives were considered “Pioneer” fundraisers for George W. Bush’s presidential campaigns.

The requirement to reach the highly-profitable “Pioneer status” was amassing a minimum of $100,000 worth of bundled contributions to any one of George W. Bush’s campaigns.

According to a comprehensive International Business Times analysis of Florida government documents, and a list of George W. Bush’s bundlers compiled by Public Citizen, there were no less than 11 firms that received the Jeb Bush pension investments because they were qualified as “Pioneers.”

Further analysis (http://www.ibtimes.com/george-w-bush-fundraisers-whose-firms-received-florida-pension-deals-under-jeb-bush-1880624) of data from the Florida Division of Elections and Political Moneyline determined how much money executives from those firms donated directly to Jeb Bush’s campaigns, George W. Bush’s campaigns, the Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Florida between 1998 and 2006 while Jeb Bush was in charge.

For example, Lehman Brothers, already recipients of Florida pension largesse courtesy of Jeb Bush donated $499,000 to Bush campaigns and received $175 million in pension money from Bush.

Also included in the eleven investment firms was the largest private equity firm in the world, the Carlyle Group, where Bush daddy George H. W. Bush served as senior adviser from 1998 to 2003 during the time all these “Pioneer” transactions were occurring.

The Carlyle Group received $275 million of Florida public employees’ pension savings for donating $69,000 to keep George W. Bush in the White House.

As one pundit noted, the special relationship between Jeb and giant financial institutions really means that the “quid pro quo was a double windfall for the Bush clan,” and contributed to monumental pension losses for Florida public employees.

One can hardly blame the giant investment firms because they all enjoyed unbelievably profitable returns on their political donation investment.

It is noteworthy that what Bush was doing as a matter of course in Florida for eight years is precisely the same scam Chris Christie has been profiting from while running rampant over public employees in New Jersey.

It is nothing less than looting state pension funds to reward political donors and a blatant example of shafting middle class workers who paid into these funds for their retirement.

Instead of reaping the pensions they built up over their working lives, Jeb Bush lost their money while benefitting the filthy rich who bankroll the same Republicans who pledge to repay them with more stolen pension funds.

To be fair to Republicans everywhere, this scam is a well-executed machination of the Koch brothers’ American Legislative Exchange Council and State Policy Network to rob state pension funds in every state in the union; neither Florida or New Jersey are isolated incidents.

The Bush clan are all corrupt and exist for the benefit of their wealthy donors at the expense of all Americans.

It is just how they operate and the only way they know to govern; and yes, for all Republicans giving away everything the population owns to the richest one percent is what they mean by governing.

It should not be a revelation that Jeb Bush, a typical Republican, had no compunction giving away at least a couple of billions-of-dollars of middle class Americans’ pension savings to his favorite campaign donors to lose at their pleasure, or that he made millions in the process; it is what Republicans do.

But it should be a warning to voters, including Republican voters, that neither Jeb Bush, nor any Republican, can ever be entrusted with the keys to the nation’s, or the people’s, treasures no matter how small, because they will give it all away to the rich. It is just how they operate and what they consider good governance.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/08/30/jeb-bush-millions-giving-investors-billions-florida-pension-funds-lose.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

[boutons_deux]

In Florida Jeb Bush is Running Third




Bush: 18.6 percent
Carson: 24.5 percent
Trump: 28.9 percent


http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/believe-it-or-not-florida-jeb-bush-running-third?akid=13472.187590.KwQix-&rd=1&src=newsletter1042348&t=18

[boutons_deux]

Trump Holds Big New Hampshire Lead While Jeb Falls To Fifth In GOP Poll

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/polltracker/donald-trump-new-hampshire-monmouth-poll?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

and JEB says he's gonna kick Trump's ass in the next debate, no more "Mr cerebral nice guy" :lol

[boutons_deux]

Nearly Half Of Florida Voters Say Jeb And Rubio Should Quit 2016 Race

Florida voters agree, according to a poll released Tuesday: their former governor as well as one of their current U.S. senators should drop out of the presidential campaign.

Forty-seven percent of Florida voters said Jeb Bush should stop campaigning while 48 percent said Marco Rubio should join him, according to a poll from the Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling.

Not only is Florida considered a swing state, but it's also both politicians' home base.

The numbers improve when Florida's Republican voters were surveyed. Fifty-two percent of Florida GOP voters said Bush should continue his bid whereas 62 percent said Rubio should.

The poll was conducted among 814 voters, 377 of whom were Republican primary voters, from Sept. 11 to 13. Eighty percent of participants completed the survey by phone. The margin of error was 3.4 percent overall and 5.1 percent for Republicans.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ppp-florida-jeb-rubio-quit?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

[boutons_deux]

Jeb: I Can Handle Foreign Policy Because 'Yes, I Am A Bush'

"I know how to do this because, yes, I am a Bush," he said, according to CNN.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeb-i-am-a-bush?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

Because you are a Bush (shrub da da dumb), you might be the nominee, but not gonna be Pres.

[boutons_deux]

Very Very Revealing


I'm not sure how much play this will get.

But this poll tells you a lot about the candidacies of Donald Trump and Jeb Bush (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/polltracker/public-policy-polling-iowa-september).

A new PPP polls shows Trump, not surprisingly, at the head of the GOP pack. But when PPP created head to head match ups with the other contenders, Carson, Fiorina, Rubio and Walker all beat Trump and in most cases handily.

Except Jeb.

Trump beat Jeb.

So Trump really isn't that strong.

He's just got a committed following that holds the ground in a crowded field.

Another way of putting it is that as big a plurality as Trump has, the bigger deal is the majority that is clearly against him.

Meanwhile, Jeb is weak and nobody likes him.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/very-very-revealing?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

[DMX7]

I wonder how many people have read any of your 9 consecutive posts on this thread.

[boutons_deux]

Jeb: A 'Multicultural' Society May Lead To 'Retarded' Assimilation

“We should not have a multicultural society,” Bush said. “When you create pockets of isolation, and in some cases, the assimilation process has been retarded, it’s wrong. It limits people’s aspirations.”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeb-bush-multicultural-iowa?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

Like his brother, that man has a way with words. He now seems just stupid, ignorant as his brother.

[boutons_deux]

Fox host corners Bush for giving tax cuts to the 1%: ‘Does Jeb Bush need a $3 million tax cut?’

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/fox-host-corners-bush-for-giving-tax-cuts-to-the-1-does-jeb-bush-need-a-3-million-tax-cut/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Looks like Ailes isn't backing shrub II

[boutons_deux]

As he campaigns for president, Jeb Bush has eagerly reminded audiences of theGodfather-inspired nickname he earned as Florida’s governor: "They call me Veto Corleone because I vetoed 2,500 separate line items in the budget,"

Mother Jones compiled a list of the governor's 2,549 line-item vetoes, accounting for $1.88 billion in spending cuts between 1999 and 2007. Bush cut approximately $100 million for educational projects; $97 million for health care and mental health-related projects; $24 million for emergency preparedness, mainly for shelters and backup generators; $24 million for cancer and Alzheimer's research and treatment; $15 million for children's services, largely related to health care; $11 million for police and fire departments; and $10 million for drug treatment programs.

Bush set a new line-item veto record, cutting $350 million—a total he would surpass in 2006, his final year in office. Among the vetoed items was nearly $21 million (http://floridafiscalportal.state.fl.us/Document.aspx?ID=2875&DocType=PDF) for the state's 20 trauma centers. Unlike regular emergency rooms, trauma centers—which treat the direst injuries, often the result of car crashes and gunshot wounds—run budget deficits due to the cost of high-tech equipment and maintaining a specialized team of doctors on call throughout the night. By 2004, the state's trauma centers were deep in the red, and at least two were threatening to shut their doors if the state didn't help cover their costs.

Bush's political opponents often saw his vetoes as a power play by a strong executive without respect for the legislative process—or, worse, as a means of punishing lawmakers who crossed him. "There was probably a lot of stuff that needed to be vetoed," says Gelber, "but not all of his vetoes were high minded, and sometimes they were downright vindictive."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/jeb-bush-veto-record-florida

[TeyshaBlue]

I wonder how many people have read any of your 9 consecutive posts on this thread.

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[boutons_deux]

1

:lol

the dickless, racist, snark King TB :lol , the most reliable stalker of The Great Bouton's threads and posts. :lol

[DMX7]

The Great Bouton? Is that what you call yourself? :lol

[TeyshaBlue]

:lol

the dickless, racist, snark King TB :lol , the most reliable stalker of The Great Bouton's threads and posts. :lol

The Great Mocker. Get it right fucknut.

[TeyshaBlue]

The Great Bouton? Is that what you call yourself? :lol

Weird, huh?

Fits the whole self-affirmation routine he runs here daily.

[TeyshaBlue]

Btw...GFY Right wingnut. :lol

[boutons_deux]

George W. Bush Enjoying New Status as Smarter Bush

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Borowitz-George-Bush-Smiling-690.jpg

DALLAS — After years of being subjected to unfair ridicule, former President George W. Bush is now enjoying his newfound status as the smarter of the two Bush brothers to have achieved elected office.

Speaking to reporters at his home in Dallas, Bush said he was deriving “quiet satisfaction” from a new poll showing that ninety-one per cent of the American people now consider him the smarter Bush.

“I know that no one’s saying I’m a genius,” he said, modestly. “But I look pretty good when I’m graded on a curve.”

Bush pointed with particular pride to the fact that seventy-four per cent of those polled said that, of the two Bush brothers, he had a “far superior command of the English language.”

“When I was President, I got a lot of grief from people who didn’t think my English was too good,” he said. “I think now they’re realizing it could have been worser.”

The former President said that he hoped the American people’s view of him as the smarter Bush would soon be shared by his parents, George and Barbara Bush.

“At Thanksgiving, Mom and Dad would never let me carve the turkey because they thought I’d screw it up somehow,” he said. “Something tells me I’ll be carving that turkey this year.”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/george-w-bush-enjoying-new-status-as-smarter-bush?mbid=nl_100615%20Borowitz%20Newsletter%20(1)&CNDID=&spMailingID=8131642&spUserID=MjczNzc0Njk0NDAS1&spJobID=780753814&spReportId=NzgwNzUzODE0S0

[boutons_deux]

Jeb Bush Would Not Reauthorize the Voting Rights Act


Republican candidate thinks the law that his brother signed is no longer relevant.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/jeb-bush-voting-rights-act

[boutons_deux]

CNN host destroys Jeb Bush: You blame Hillary for Benghazi but insist brother blameless for 9/11

“Obviously al Qaeda was responsible for the terrorist attacks of 9/11,” the CNN host pressed. “But how do you respond to critics who ask if your brother and his administration bear no responsibility at all, how do you then make the jump that President Obama and Secretary Clinton are responsible for what happened at Benghazi?”
Bush stammered in response: “Well, I — the question on Benghazi, which we will now finally get the truth to, is was the place secure? They had a responsibility at the Department of State to have proper security.”

“And how was the response in the aftermath of the attack?” he continued. “Was there a chance that these four American lives could have been saved? That’s what the investigation is about, it’s not a political issue… Were we doing the job of protecting our embassies and our consulates, and during the period, those hours after the attacks started, could they have been saved?”

“That’s kind of proving the point of the critics,” Tapper noted. “You don’t want you brother to bear responsibility for 9/11 — and I understand that argument and al Qaeda is responsible — but why are the terrorists not the ones that are responsible for these attacks in Libya?”

“They are!” Bush replied. “But if the ambassador was asking for additional security and they didn’t get it, that’s a proper point. And if it’s proven that the security was adequate compared to other embassies, then fine, we’ll move on.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/cnn-host-destroys-jeb-bush-you-blame-hillary-for-benghazi-but-insist-brother-blameless-for-911/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

The US Benghazi wasn't an embassy, was not even recognized by the Libyan "govt" as a US "diplomatic" installation.

And of course the Repugs DENIED FUNDING to State dept for increasing diplomatic security. Austerity rules, and solves nothing.

[TeyshaBlue]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/teyshablue/images_zps2ftcm2xq.jpeg (http://s3.photobucket.com/user/teyshablue/media/images_zps2ftcm2xq.jpeg.html)

[boutons_deux]

Jeb! is firing staff, he's finished

3 Reasons Republicans Must Pull The Plug On Jeb If They Want To Stop Trump

1. Jeb Bush can’t beat Donald Trump.

Jeb has been unable to show any true vigor or backbone against The Donald: sitting there uncomfortably as Trump insults him, attacks his wife (http://www.nationalmemo.com/dear-jeb-heres-how-you-respond-when-they-attack-your-wife/), and is now taking on his brother. And even Republican voters don’t seem to want Jeb around anymore.

A recent national survey from Democratic-aligned firm Public Policy Polling (http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/PPP_Release_NationalGOP_100615.pdf) showed Trump in first place among Republicans with 27 percent, way ahead of his closest competitor Ben Carson with only 17 percent, then Marco Rubio with 13 percent, and Jeb at 12 percent.

But in a specially tested two-way matchup, not only did Trump lead Bush — it wasn’t even remotely close: The Donald at 56 percent, Jeb at 36 percent.

By itself, Jeb being unable to beat Trump would be reason enough for GOPers who really want to stop The Donald to take some action. But it actually gets much, much worse than that.

2. As long as Jeb stays in, he sucks up time, money, attention, and resources that could go to another contender.

That survey from PPP mentioned above also tested several other two-way match-ups, with interesting results: Carson led Jeb, 52 percent to 41 percent; Carly Fiorina edged him out, 47 percent to 45 percent; and Rubio — perhaps the establishment’s last, best hope — was also ahead, 50 percent to 43 percent.

But how is Rubio doing? As a recent report in Politico (http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/rubio-wake-up-call-214890) showed, his campaign his flatlining from a lack of money and on-the-ground organization in the early primary states:

For all the recent buzz surrounding his candidacy — fueled by strong debate performances —Rubio isn’t raising enough money to keep pace with his rivals in the top tier and he’s running out of time to assemble a robust field organization.

“If Trump-mania subsides, you’ve got to have a mechanism and a structure,” said Chip Felkel, a South Carolina Republican strategist who isn’t affiliated with any campaign. “I think you’re being risky if you don’t put a structure in place.”


And for Rubio or any other candidate, they won’t be able to build up the money, organization, or media attention necessary to bring down The Donald — as long as Jeb is still in the way.
This also relates somewhat to my final point…

3. As long as Jeb Bush is in the race, Donald Trump has his favorite punching bag to knock around.

I have previously argued (http://www.nationalmemo.com/the-donald-vs-the-losers-a-guide-to-trumps-insult-wars/) that Trump is a lot like a monkey who walks into a new troop, and then immediately punches the biggest other monkey there in order to become the new reigning alpha-male. From the moment The Donald entered this campaign, he’s been attacking the onetime frontrunner Jeb mercilessly, in ways that other candidates seemed too shy to even attempt.
Jeb didn’t fight back — perhaps wanting to remain above the fray. But instead, he has only succeeded in surrendering his position at the top of the pack. And any attempts to regain it have only resulted in Trump knocking him right back down again.

And now, to follow this simian analogy to its proper conclusion, whenever Trump might be in any trouble he can simply start whaling away at Jeb again. It amounts to a new display of pack dominance that not only keeps his followers on his side — but the constant demonstration of strength and lack of any fear might very well attract more voters to his banner.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/3-reasons-republicans-must-pull-the-plug-on-jeb-if-they-want-to-stop-trump/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Morning%20Memo%20-%202015-10-20&utm_term=MM_frequency_six

[DMX7]

^LOL, that's an incredibly primal analysis.

[boutons_deux]

^LOL, that's an incredibly primal analysis.

anything specific, or just your knee jerking?

[DMX7]

anything specific, or just your knee jerking?

All the talk about "pack dominance", LMAO

[boutons_deux]

All the talk about "pack dominance", LMAO

ok, fair point, journalists strive for metaphors, most are shitty gimmicks

but obviously Donny T is the "dominant" bully, Macho Man, driving member of the Repug Klown Kar, esp over an omega loser like Jeb.

Donny T is still a joke, a clown with money and "dealz", a caricature of a Real Man, and even that trumps all the other Repug losers.

[boutons_deux]

Here are 20 things George W. Bush did *after* 9/11. (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/19/1434783/-You-re-Right-Jeb)


http://images.dailykos.com/images/170995/large/youre_right_jeb.jpg?1445262067

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/19/1434783/-You-re-Right-Jeb?detail=email

[boutons_deux]

Team Jeb claims Dubya 'inherited' 9/11 and recession (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/20/1435564/-Team-Jeb-claims-Dubya-inherited-9-11-and-recession)


http://images.dailykos.com/images/29637/large/magic_calendar_600.jpg?1366920709

April 2009 (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_04/017688.php)—just weeks after Obama entered the Oval Office in the midst of the greatest American economic calamity since the Great Depression—Jeb protested:


"If I had one humble criticism of President Obama, it would be to stop this notion of somehow framing everything in the context of 'Everything was bad before I got here' and focus on his duties, which we all want him to succeed. But constantly pushing down the previous president to make yourself look good I think is a bad thing."


Dick Cheney adviser Mary Matalin (http://mediamatters.org/mobile/research/200912270001). In December 2009, she could have been speaking for the entire Bush team when she offered this masterpiece of Republican turd polishing:




"I was there, we inherited a recession from President Clinton, and we inherited the most tragic attack on our own soil in our nation's history." :lol



http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/20/1435564/-Team-Jeb-claims-Dubya-inherited-9-11-and-recession?detail=email

All LIES, Repugs got NOTHNG else.

[boutons_deux]

New Poll Shows Jeb Bush Continuing To Fall Among Republicans Nationally

“The money train may be chugging along for the Bush campaign, but the polling train has been steadily losing steam,” Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute in West Long Branch, New Jersey, said in a statement accompanying the poll.

Bush, the establishment GOP's long-anointed pick for nominee, polled at just 5 percent, barely edging out former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who each polled at 4 percent.

Bush's standing has fallen in every successive Monmouth poll since July, when he led the GOP field with 15 percent.

His current standing is a full 10 points lower than it was when the slide began.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeb-bush-donald-trump-monmouth-poll?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

[spurraider21]

Here are 20 things George W. Bush did *after* 9/11. (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/19/1434783/-You-re-Right-Jeb)


http://images.dailykos.com/images/170995/large/youre_right_jeb.jpg?1445262067

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/19/1434783/-You-re-Right-Jeb?detail=email
lol "20 things he did"

about 75% of these are from one action

[boutons_deux]

lol "20 things he did"

about 75% of these are from one action

cut the semantics as you wish, all 20 are true

[spurraider21]

lol "semantics"

the graphic loses all of its bite

[TeyshaBlue]

It's Kos.... Don't expect accuracy or anything approaching intellectual honesty. Do expect it to be high on the moombat rss feed.

[boutons_deux]

It's Kos.... Don't expect accuracy or anything approaching intellectual honesty. Do expect it to be high on the moombat rss feed.

Nothing specific contradicting those points? or just your standard, snarky, vague bulllshit feed?

[DMX7]

I can't wait to see the victory lap Donald takes when he knocks Jeb out of the race.

It's going to be highly entertaining.

[boutons_deux]

Trump Is Right About 9/11

There’s no way of knowing for sure if Bush could have stopped the September 11 attacks.

But that’s not the right question.

The right question is:

Did Bush do everything he could reasonably have to stop them, given what he knew at the time?

And he didn’t.

It’s not even close.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/did-george-w-bush-do-all-he-could-to-prevent-911/411175/

Thanks, Repugs.

Allowing 9/11 to happen, then using 9/11 as pretext to invade Iraq for BigOil, de-stabilizing the Middle East into a horrendous pile of shit whose victims the American Empire, (esp racist, Islamophobe Repugs), refuses to assist.

[hater]

:lmao FOX analysts say that if Trump can be destroyed the Republicans will flock to Rubio


No mention of Bush :lmao

[DMX7]

:lmao FOX analysts say that if Trump can be destroyed the Republicans will flock to Rubio


No mention of Bush :lmao

He can't be destroyed. Trump is invincible.

[boutons_deux]

Job Creator!

promising 4% national economic growith FOREVER! :lol

Jeb Bush tries to save his flailing campaign by cutting back on staffing—for the second time (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/23/1437828/-Jeb-Bush-tries-to-save-his-flailing-campaign-by-cutting-staff-for-the-second-time)

One Bush adviser told Bloomberg Politics in an interview Friday morning that the team was "unapologetic" about the changes, saying

the moves were from a "position of strength." "This is about winning the race," the adviser said. "We're doing it now and making the shifts with confidence. We expect to win." :lol

Bush's problems, really, begin and end with the one staffer he can't cut: the guy at the very top. Bush is a lousy campaigner who simply is not and cannot offer conservatives what they want. Could he still emerge at the end of a bruising campaign as the establishment pick after more exotic candidates flame out? Sure. But for the one-time frontrunner, this is a sad spot to find himself in, and no amount of payroll slicing can fix Jeb.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/23/1437828/-Jeb-Bush-tries-to-save-his-flailing-campaign-by-cutting-staff-for-the-second-time?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

As always in dubya and jeb world, black is white, bad is good, up is down. "just go shopping"

[Nbadan]

Death throes....

BUSH SLASHING SPENDING, SHIFTING STAFF AMID CAMPAIGN WOES
Source: Associated Press


VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is drastically slashing campaign spending, including an across-the-board pay cut for staff, as the one-time front-runner seeks to salvage his bid for the GOP nomination.

The moves will reduce the campaign's payroll by 40 percent, while also cutting travel costs by 20 percent and eliminating extraneous overhead costs. Most campaign officials were told of the cost-cutting on Friday.

The changes mark a significant setback for a campaign that spent months building a large operation, but there are no signs Bush is on the verge of withdrawing from the race. He was scheduled to attend an event at Regent University in Virginia on Friday afternoon and had events with donors beginning Sunday in Texas.

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOP_2016_BUSH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-10-23-13-11-05

[boutons_deux]

JEB! was Wall St's choice to their lackey.

[boutons_deux]

Jeb Bush: Let's take the Interior Department, and move it over here! (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/24/1437018/-Jeb-Bush-Let-s-take-the-Interior-Department-and-move-it-over-here)


There is just no way that Jeb! Bush isn't the dumb one (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/21/jeb-bushs-moves-against-washington-again-with-call-to-relocate-interior-department-in-the-west/).


Jeb Bush is proposing that the Department of the Interior's headquarters be moved from Washington to the western United States as part of a four-part plan for reforming federal land management practices he unveiled Wednesday, marking yet another attempt to distance himself and his policies from the nation's capital.

So by "distancing himself and his policies from the nation's capital," Jeb Bush literally meansdistancing his policies from the nation's capital. The exact same policies, but what if we moved them over here.


In a post on Medium, the Republican White House hopeful says that in addition to moving the department's headquarters, he wants to expand state power over federal lands, encourage "better" management of those areas, clear the way for more mining and energy development and expand recreational access. Bush will pitch his plan during a campaign stop in Reno, Nevada.



http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/24/1437018/-Jeb-Bush-Let-s-take-the-Interior-Department-and-move-it-over-here?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

iow, let the states allow BigCorp, BigCarbon to fuck up public lands, it they can't outright buy them.

[tlongII]

Jeb's done. His brother is a boat anchor.

[boutons_deux]

Jeb Bush Throws A Fit And Tells America He Has Better Things To Do Than Be President

Bush tells America if they want to elect Trump, go right ahead.

Jeb Bush has better things to do than sit around and be demonized.Speaking in South Carolina today, Jeb Bush said (via CNN’s Jake Tapper), “If this election is about how we’re going to fight to get nothing done, then I don’t want anything, I don’t want any part of it.

I don’t want to be elected president to sit around and see gridlock just become so dominant that people literally are in decline in their lives.

That is not my motivation.

I’ve got a lot of really cool things I cold do other than sit around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and feeling compelled to demonize them.

That is a joke.

Elect Trump if you want that.”

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/24/jeb-bush-america-lot-cool-demonized.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

Maher was so wrong. dubya IS the SMARTER BROTHER. :lol

[Nbadan]

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) on Saturday brushed off speculation that his presidential campaign was struggling, and ... a day after his campaign announced it was cutting payroll and budget by 40 and 45 percent, respectively, Bush said that he was simply making an "adjustment."
...
After an anonymous donor told The Washington Post that Bush's campaign had entered a "death spiral," the former Florida governor said that reports of his campaign's struggling were ... "Blah, blah, blah," he said. "That's my answer -- blah, blah, blah."

While Bush said on Saturday that his October polling was of little concern because the party would select its nominee in February and March, once caucuses and primaries began, he also sounded like a man who had had enough -- fed up with the constant attacks on his stamina by the reality TV star stomping him in the polls, and ready to let the voters make a bad decision if they wanted to.
...
Bush, who was considered a front-runner for the Republican nomination when he announced his candidacy in June, has experienced a slide in the polls recently. According to HuffPost Pollster, he has the support of 7.3 percent of likely Republican primary voters nationally, trailing Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.). He's also not faring well in Iowa, where he only has the support of 5.2 percent of likely caucusgoers. In New Hampshire, Bush has the support of 8 percent of likely GOP primary voters, trailing Trump, Carson, Carly Fiorina and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-campaign-struggling_562bc38de4b0443bb5642da1

[DMX7]

There is a rumor that Jeb may embrace his last name and change is campaign slogan from "Jeb!" to just "Jeb Bush".

[Nbadan]

I think the Jeb! slogan has been the only positive to come out of this campaign...in fact, I suggested it 2 years ago...Bush should change his name....seriously, people are stupid.....

something America like Jeb Tucker...or some shit like that...

[boutons_deux]

JEB! IS SO DED!

The vultures have flown!

Paul Singer, Influential Billionaire, (owner of Argentina and other countries) Throws Support to Marco Rubio for President

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/us/politics/paul-singer-influential-billionaire-throws-support-to-marco-rubio-for-president.html

[Clipper Nation]

JEB! IS SO DED!

The vultures have flown!

Paul Singer, Influential Billionaire, (owner of Argentina and other countries) Throws Support to Marco Rubio for President

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/us/politics/paul-singer-influential-billionaire-throws-support-to-marco-rubio-for-president.html
660431840776470528

Trump

[DMX7]

660431840776470528

Trump

Truth bomb.

[boutons_deux]

Hedge fund billionaire behind swiftboating of John Kerry throws his support behind Rubio

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/hedge-fund-billionaire-behind-swiftboating-of-john-kerry-throws-his-support-behind-rubio/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Now that Jeb is done, looks like Rubio is the BigFinance's Boy Toy.

[Splits]

:lmao the #JebCanFixIt tag is so hilarious: https://twitter.com/hashtag/JebCanFixIt?src=hash

[boutons_deux]

:lmao the #JebCanFixIt tag is so hilarious: https://twitter.com/hashtag/JebCanFixIt?src=hash

Just like his brother, a total LOSER! and his campaign staff, too.

[boutons_deux]

Poor Jeb! For the first time ever, a majority of Republicans say they could never back Bush

http://www.salon.com/2015/11/03/poor_jeb_for_the_first_time_ever_a_majority_of_rep ublicans_say_they_could_never_back_bush/

GTFO public life, and THANKS! for Iraq, you crooked, fraudulent, cheating asshole.

[boutons_deux]

Jeb can’t even fix this: Bush’s campaign forgets to register jebcanfixthis.com

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/jeb-cant-even-fix-this-bushs-campaign-forgets-to-register-jebcanfixthis-com/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[boutons_deux]

In the latest poll, conducted after last week's third GOP debate in which Bush delivered a mediocre performance, just 4 percent of Republican and independent Republican-leaning voters said they would support Bush in their state's primary.

In the September survey, Bush earned 10 percent, trailing Trump, Carson and Carly Fiorina.

And in terms of favorability, no one polled lower than Bush, at a net-negative of 33 points.

Just 25 percent of all registered voters surveyed said they had a positive opinion of him, while 58 percent said they had a negative one.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/quinnipiac-poll-jeb-bush-clinton-trump-215493#ixzz3qdJqCwTd

[boutons_deux]

Waiters Serve Jeb A Heaping Portion Of Metal For Breakfast


Bush said last weekend (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeb-bush-eats-nails-tough) that he was so tough that he eats nails when he wakes up — and then has breakfast.

Here's what Bush was served:


View image on Twitter (http://twitter.com/JebBush/status/663387614016311298/photo/1)https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTTTfxiWwAAnNXu.jpg:large (http://twitter.com/JebBush/status/663387614016311298/photo/1)


✔@JebBush (https://twitter.com/JebBush)

The waiters had a little fun with me this AM. #nailsforbreakfast (https://twitter.com/hashtag/nailsforbreakfast?src=hash)
10:08 AM - 8 Nov 2015 (https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/663387614016311298)




http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeb-bush-served-nails?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

[boutons_deux]

Jeb Bush Allies Threaten Wave of Harsh Attacks on Marco Rubio, an Ex-Mentee

The cash-rich group aiding Jeb Bush (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/15/us/elections/jeb-bush.html?inline=nyt-per)’s White House run has filmed a provocative video casting his rival Marco Rubio (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/14/us/elections/marco-rubio.html?inline=nyt-per) as ultimately unelectable because of his hard-line stand against abortion.

That group, which has raised more than $100 million, has asked voters in New Hampshire how they feel about Mr. Rubio’s skipping important votes in the Senate.

And the group’s chief strategist has boasted of his willingness to spend as much as $20 million to damage Mr. Rubio’s reputation and halt his sudden ascent in the polls, according to three people told of the claim.

Seething with anger and alarmed over Mr. Rubio’s rise, aides to Mr. Bush, the former Florida governor, and his allies are privately threatening a wave of scathing attacks on his former protégé in the coming weeks, in a sign of just how anxious they have become about the state of Mr. Bush’s candidacy.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/us/politics/bush-allies-threaten-wave-of-harsh-attacks-on-rubio-an-ex-mentee.html?_r=1

[boutons_deux]

And Krazy Kruz, the Sharia candidate, also going after Rubio

Ted Cruz Sets Sights On ‘Moderate’ Marco Rubio

For Ted Cruz, the single biggest obstacle to winning the Republican nomination may not be outsider candidates Donald Trump or Ben Carson, but his fellow first-term senator, Marco Rubio.

After strong debate performances, both Cruz and Rubio — two 44-year-old Cuban Americans — saw their poll numbers rise, and interest from donors jump. The two Republican presidential hopefuls are now locked in a third-place tie according to a national Los Angeles Times poll ahead of Tuesday’s debate in Milwaukee. As a result Cruz and his allies have begun zeroing in on Rubio.

“As I look at the race, historically, there have been two major lanes in the Republican primary. There’s been a moderate lane and a conservative lane,” Cruz told CNN on Thursday. “Marco is certainly formidable in that lane. I think the Jeb (Bush) campaign seems to view Marco as his biggest threat in the moderate lane.”

The Texas hardliner’s mischievous branding of Rubio as a “moderate” is the first shot in a showdown that may unfold in the coming days of the campaign.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/ted-cruz-sets-sights-on-moderate-marco-rubio/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Morning%20Memo%20-%202015-11-10&utm_term=MM_frequency_six

[boutons_deux]

Jeb Bush Gets Stumped: GOP Candidate Can’t Explain How Refugees Will Prove They’re Christian


He was unable to explain how refugees would prove they were adherents of the Christian faith.

But the former Florida governor on Tuesday was unable to explain how refugees would prove they were adherents of the Christian faith.

“At a minimum we ought to be bringing in people that have — orphans or people that clearly aren’t going to be terrorists. Or Christians,” Bush told reporters in South Carolina, according to ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jeb-bush-us-syrian-refugees-prove-christian/story?id=35263074). “There are no Christian terrorists in the Middle East, they’re persecuted.”

One reporter questioned what his focus on Christian refugees would “actually look like.”

“Well, you’re a Christian, I mean, you can prove you’re a Christian,” Bush responded.

“How?” a reporter interjected.

“I think you can prove it,” Bush shrugged. “If you can’t prove it, you know, you err on the side of caution.”

http://www.alternet.org/immigration/jeb-bush-gets-stumped-gop-candidate-cant-explain-how-refugees-will-prove-theyre?akid=13670.187590.VuPQrb&rd=1&src=newsletter1045986&t=12

dumb and dumberer to

[boutons_deux]

Jeb Bush has made a stunning revelation, on the subject of his fall from frontrunner status to the lower tiers in the Republican race: He “hated” being ahead in the first place!

“I feel much better back here,” he explained, as he noted the high expectations that were placed upon him by being both brother and son to two former presidents.

“Being the frontrunner made me feel like other people were gonna being to say, ‘the other guy’s just dancing right through this,'” Jeb said. “I have to go earn it. I have higher expectations on me than people have on me. So it doesn’t bother me a bit that the expectations are high. And I want to win — which means that you garner momentum when it matters, and so I feel good about where we are right now.”

Yes, and we’re sure that all the people who helped donate over $100 million to Jeb’s campaign and/or Super-PAC are just delighted that he’s been able to overcome the burden of being frontrunner. It feels so much better now!

http://www.nationalmemo.com/endorse-this-jeb-the-happy-loser/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Endorse%20This%20-%202015-12-21&utm_term=Endorse_This_Sign_Up

[DMX7]

Jebra.

[boutons_deux]

Heckuva job, Jeb!: Bush reminds voters of brother’s disastrous record with awkward Hurricane Katrina joke


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/heckuva-job-jeb-bush-reminds-voters-of-brothers-disastrous-record-with-awkward-hurricane-katrina-joke/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[boutons_deux]

Jeb Bush Has “Mistaken And Conflated” Story About Receiving NRA Award, Campaign Admits

A spokesman for Jeb Bush’s campaign told BuzzFeed News on Monday that Bush had “mistaken and conflated” his story about receiving the National Rifle Association’s “statesman of the year” award.

The former Florida governor has told the story on several occasions, saying he received a rifle from then-NRA president Charlton Heston and was the recipient of the group’s “statesman of the year” honor in 2003.

While the NRA rates the records of politicians on gun issues, the group does not hand out a statesman of the year award. In 2003, the NRA held its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, with Bush as the keynote speaker. The NRA’s meeting page from that year makes no mention of Bush receiving any award.

A BuzzFeed News search of various archive search engines like Lexis Nexis for the “statesman of the year” award and Jeb Bush only turned up comments this year made by Bush.

“In recounting the story, Jeb was mistaken and conflated multiple events unintentionally. Heston met with Jeb at that NRA convention and was the head of the NRA at the time, but it was Kayne Robinson who presented Jeb with the rifle for being keynote speaker,” a spokesman told BuzzFeed News. “Heston had previously said he supported Jeb’s reelection at a 2002 campaign event. Jeb was lauded by the NRA on multiple occasions for his second amendment record, including signing legislation that the NRA dubbed the ‘Six Pack Of Freedom.’ Jeb has a lifetime A+ rating from the NRA.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/jeb-bush-has-mistaken-and-conflated-story-about-receiving-nr?utm_term=.pimkAK9aD#.axGkRXL9Q

No such NRA award :lol

No such Charleston Heston rifle :lol

[boutons_deux]

The problem Jeb Bush doesn’t know how to solve

Jeb Bush was asked the other day about his faltering favorability rating among Republican voters. “Hell if I know,” the presidential candidate replied (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/11/1468437/-Jeb-Bush-on-the-cause-of-his-plunging-favorability-Hell-if-I-know-I-don-t-really-care). “I don’t really care.”

And at a certain level, that’s probably about as a good reply as any. After all, the underlying question – why don’t voters in your own party like you? – is inherently brutal and insulting. Dismissing it as an unimportant distraction makes sense, if only to maintain one’s self-esteem.

But turning a blind eye to a problem does not make the problem go away. Gallup isn’t doing horse-race polling, at least not yet, but it is publishing data on the candidate’s favorability, and the longtime pollster published this report (http://www.gallup.com/poll/188069/jeb-bush-image-among-republicans-deteriorates.aspx)last week:

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s image among Republicans has steadily worsened over the past five-and-a-half months. His current net favorable rating of -1 (44% favorable, 45% unfavorable) among Republicans is significantly lower than his +27 (54% favorable, 27% unfavorable) rating in mid-July. […]

Bush’s campaign efforts since July have clearly moved his image in a negative direction. The percentage of Republicans with a favorable opinion of Bush has dropped 10 percentage points, while the percentage with an unfavorable opinion has increased 18 points.


Of the nine GOP presidential candidates included in Gallup’s survey, Bush is the easily the least liked and the only candidate whose unfavorable scores are higher than his favorable scores. (Ted Cruz fares the best on net favorability, followed by Ben Carson.)

What’s more, it’s not just Gallup. As Rachel noted (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/bush-least-liked-paul-misses-main-debate-cut-600137283866) on the show last night, Bush has the lowest favorability scores in New Hampshire (http://www.monmouth.edu/assets/0/32212254770/32212254991/32212254992/32212254994/32212254995/30064771087/290da493-3987-4ce9-8421-ab5b42f97a41.pdf) of any Republican candidate, and the lowest favorability scores in Iowa (http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/iowa/release-detail?ReleaseID=2313) of any GOP presidential hopeful.

Republican voters aren’t just skeptical about voting for Jeb; they also just don’t seem to like him very much. It’s a problem for which there is no obvious solution.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-problem-jeb-bush-doesnt-know-how-solve?cid=sm_fb_maddow

[boutons_deux]

Jeb Bush’s mother tries to lend a hand

For those who can’t watch clips online, here’s the script, with Barbara Bush’s pitch:

“Jeb has been a very good father. A wonderful son. A hard worker. His heart is big.

“When push comes to shove people are going to realize Jeb has real solutions, rather than talking about how popular they are, how great they are. He’s doing it because he sees a huge need and it’s not being filled by anybody.

“Of all the people running, he seems to be the one who could solve the problems. I think he’ll be a great president.”


The New Republic’s Jeet Heer said (https://newrepublic.com/minutes/128195/jeb-bushs-latest-endorsement-sad-desperate) in response, “There have been many sad moments in Jeb Bush’s ill-fated campaign, but this is surely one of the most pathetic. Down on his luck, Bush is doing the equivalent of bringing his mother to a job interview to vouch for what a great guy he is.”

That sounds about right, though that’s not the part that jumped out at me. Rather, it was the pitch itself that seemed problematic.

“Of all the people running,” Barbara Bush said, Jeb “seems to be the one who could solve the problems.” I guess my question is, what’s with all the qualifiers?

Jeb Bush is a fine candidate, out of “all the people running”? It’s the sort of thing someone says when they think there are superior candidates out there, but they’ve chosen not to compete.

Jeb Bush “seems to be the one” who’ll solve problems? Is Barbara Bush not altogether sure about that?

The GOP candidate told reporters (http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/barbara-bush-appear-ad-jeb-new-hampshire) yesterday, “It’s good to get an endorsement from your mother.” He made the comment before having seen the new commercial.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/jeb-bushs-mother-tries-lend-hand?cid=sm_fb_maddow

Mama seems to know best. What about Pappy?

[Dirk Oneanddoneski]

Jeb Bush’s mother tries to lend a hand

For those who can’t watch clips online, here’s the script, with Barbara Bush’s pitch:

“Jeb has been a very good father. A wonderful son. A hard worker. His heart is big.

“When push comes to shove people are going to realize Jeb has real solutions, rather than talking about how popular they are, how great they are. He’s doing it because he sees a huge need and it’s not being filled by anybody.

“Of all the people running, he seems to be the one who could solve the problems. I think he’ll be a great president.”


The New Republic’s Jeet Heer said (https://newrepublic.com/minutes/128195/jeb-bushs-latest-endorsement-sad-desperate) in response, “There have been many sad moments in Jeb Bush’s ill-fated campaign, but this is surely one of the most pathetic. Down on his luck, Bush is doing the equivalent of bringing his mother to a job interview to vouch for what a great guy he is.”

That sounds about right, though that’s not the part that jumped out at me. Rather, it was the pitch itself that seemed problematic.

“Of all the people running,” Barbara Bush said, Jeb “seems to be the one who could solve the problems.” I guess my question is, what’s with all the qualifiers?

Jeb Bush is a fine candidate, out of “all the people running”? It’s the sort of thing someone says when they think there are superior candidates out there, but they’ve chosen not to compete.

Jeb Bush “seems to be the one” who’ll solve problems? Is Barbara Bush not altogether sure about that?

The GOP candidate told reporters (http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/barbara-bush-appear-ad-jeb-new-hampshire) yesterday, “It’s good to get an endorsement from your mother.” He made the comment before having seen the new commercial.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/jeb-bushs-mother-tries-lend-hand?cid=sm_fb_maddow

Mama seems to know best. What about Pappy?




Yeah here's the ad QTfSQJE6CJE

Somebody watched it

http://i.imgur.com/Y5K5kuV.jpg

[CosmicCowboy]

Damn that's cold. :lol

[SnakeBoy]

I saw that ad and the first thing that came to mind was...Damn, Jeb told his mom Trump was being mean to him.

Unbelievable what a bad campaign Jeb has been running.

[CosmicCowboy]

This is gonna be an epic run up to November. :lol

[boutons_deux]

Jeb Bush adopts new posture, boasts, ‘Mission accomplished’

CBS News’ Major Garrett asked the Florida Republican, “Can Jeb Bush be a surprise story here on caucus night?”

The candidate, bemused, responded, “Yes, since the expectations are so low.”

Garrett, apparently unconcerned about twisting the knife, replied, “Well, you have succeeded there, governor.”

Bush, without missing a beat, raised his arms in triumph. Laughing a bit, he replied, “Mission accomplished.”

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/jeb-bush-adopts-new-posture-boasts-mission-accomplished?cid=eml_mra_20160129

:lol Jeb, proving to be the "dumberer brother", flexes excellent political reflexes, instincts. :lol

[rmt]

Did he really refer to Trump as a teddy bear?

[hater]

:lmao Jeb Bush 6tb place in Iowa with 3% of the vote :lmao :lol

:lmao

[baseline bum]

:lmao Jeb Bush 6tb place in Iowa with 3% of the vote :lmao :lol

:lmao

It's funny Repugs love to defend W but deep down they know how toxic he made the Bush name.

[boutons_deux]

"Jeb Bush had a rough night -- he spent over $2,800 per vote (http://link.huffingtonpost.com/click/6024846.621691/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5odWZmaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vZW50cnkvam ViLWJ1c2gtc3BlbnQtMjgwMC1pb3dhX3VzXzU2YjAzYWRlZTRi MGI4ZDdjMjMwNmVjMj9uY2lkPW5ld3NsdHVzaHBtZzAwMDAwMD Az/4cb49acab61807701f9bf35eBbbfe424f) in Iowa and walked away without any delegates."

[boutons_deux]

Jeb Bush, an Also-Ran in Iowa, May Be Pivotal in New Hampshire

the former Florida governor is facing growing pressure to either demonstrate his appeal to voters or leave the race.

“If Rubio beats him badly in New Hampshire, Jeb is toast,” said Senator Lindsey Graham,

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/us/politics/jeb-bush-an-also-ran-in-iowa-may-be-pivotal-in-new-hampshire.html

[CosmicCowboy]

Rubio is sweeping up the conventional delegates as the others bow out. Santorum just endorsed him.

[CosmicCowboy]

Cruz won't even take Texas.

[Aztecfan03]

Rubio is sweeping up the conventional delegates as the others bow out. Santorum just endorsed him.
I expected him to endorse Cruz.

[boutons_deux]

Watch: Jeb Bush Tells New Hampshire Audience to ‘Please Clap’

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1957635-watch-jeb-bush-tells-new-hampshire-audience-to-please-clap/

[Pelicans78]

Rubio scares me on that side of the aisle. He's a neocon spewing out talking points from the GW era. Not a big surprise that Santorum endorsed who was a fellow neocon himself. All the neocons are siding with Rubio and have far more influence than grassroots type of conservatives who support Cruz or even Trump. We will see 25K - 50,000 troops in Iraq/Syria with Rubio in the White House.

[z0sa]

Theres no doubt in my mind that if Rubio is in the WH, we are putting thousands and thousands more boots on the ground.

[boutons_deux]

Rubio is as fucking STUPID as dubya. His self-regard far outruns his abilities.

[boutons_deux]

Rubio is extreme hard-core right wing economically, socially, so he would sign all the nightmarish shit (for the 99%) Ryan would sent to WH

[Thebesteva]

God damn...this nigga brought his mom out to BEG for him...fucking pathetic family. Thanks for ruining the US from 2000-2008 (and I'm not anti-republican)

[boutons_deux]

God damn...this nigga brought his mom out to BEG for him...fucking pathetic family. Thanks for ruining the US from 2000-2008 (and I'm not anti-republican)

yep, amazingly bad image, esp when he's terminally dead in the water.

[boutons_deux]

twitter fans having a ball

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbXbjS-XIAAU4cJ.jpg

Jeb Bush
✔@JebBush (https://twitter.com/JebBush)

America.
3:27 PM - 16 Feb 2016 (https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/699706718419345408)



(https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=699706718419345408)

19,77419,774 Retweets (https://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=699706718419345408)

19,23019,230 likes (https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=699706718419345408)



https://twitter.com/Slade/status/699711041865969665

:lol yep, America = GUNS, gun violence, gun deaths! America The Bee ee ay you tee ful

[hater]

:lmao Jeb the stupid bush :lol

his entire famioy trying to bail him out. Regardless this will come to bite him if he makes it to the next level

[101A]

This is not a fair fight:

Story (http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/02/someone-redirected-jebbushcom-to-donald-trumps-web.html)

Actual link to jebbush.com (http://jebbush.com)

[SnakeBoy]

This is not a fair fight:

Story (http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/02/someone-redirected-jebbushcom-to-donald-trumps-web.html)

Actual link to jebbush.com (http://jebbush.com)

:lol

"Hang in there, Jebby." :lol

[baseline bum]

:lmao Jeb the stupid bush :lol

his entire famioy trying to bail him out. Regardless this will come to bite him if he makes it to the next level

LOL thinking the worst president since Harding campaigning for you is a good idea.

[baseline bum]

Maybe he should try reading My Pet Goat out loud at the next debate.

[boutons_deux]

There is a new poll out in South Carolina that was conducted after the recent debate there that was so raucous it featured everything but pie throwing. In the poll, conducted by Public Policy Polling, Bush tied with Ben Carson for last place, with 7 percent of the vote.

Consider that for a moment: Jeb, after spending millions and driving himself hard, supported by a famous family, is tied with a guy who is only moderately conscious.

Two debates ago, Carson was baffled when he was asked to walk down a hallway to get onto the debate stage. Even with a producer desperately motioning for him to move, Carson remained frozen in place.

After 1 minute and 18 seconds — a lifetime in television — Carson was finally persuaded to debate on the stage rather than remain in the hallway for the next two hours or so.

And this is the guy with whom Bush is tied, while Donald Trump sits in first place with 35 percent of the vote, five times what Bush and Carson have.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/jeb-doesnt-need-a-heart-or-a-head-he-needs-savagery/

[DMX7]

twitter fans having a ball

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbXbjS-XIAAU4cJ.jpg

Jeb Bush
✔@JebBush (https://twitter.com/JebBush)

America.
3:27 PM - 16 Feb 2016 (https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/699706718419345408)



(https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=699706718419345408)

19,77419,774 Retweets (https://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=699706718419345408)

19,23019,230 likes (https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=699706718419345408)



https://twitter.com/Slade/status/699711041865969665

:lol yep, America = GUNS, gun violence, gun deaths! America The Bee ee ay you tee ful

How many retweets would Obama get if he retweeted that and then added the message "I'm coming for it"? :lol

[Sportcamper]

Just seems weird for an old guy to post a picture of his favorite hand gun on social media...:sleep
I like the restaurant owner who posted a picture of their giant pastrami sandwich with caption "America"…:lol

[CosmicCowboy]

interesting way to show it too...clip in, bolt closed, and safety off?

[Sportcamper]

I don't know what type of gun that is but someone tweeted that it was not made in America...

[boutons_deux]

Oil industry donors flock to Cruz. Sorry, Bush

Bloomberg reports (http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-02-18/surging-cruz-is-big-oil-s-new-crush-as-donors-cool-to-bush):


Cruz leads all presidential candidates in contributions from employees of oil and natural gas companies through the end of 2015, according to the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics.

His coffers have been boosted by scores of smaller gifts and $25 million to super-PACs that back his campaign from two sources: energy investor Toby Neugebauer and Dan and Farris Wilks, brothers who made their fortune in the fracking boom.


It’s not an entirely surprising shift: Despite the Bush family’s deep ties to fossil fuels, Jeb’s decline in the polls is making donations to him look like a big waste.

http://grist.org/climate-energy/oil-industry-donors-flock-to-cruz-sorry-bush/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feedgrist

[DMX7]

Jeb has wasted a lot of money

[baseline bum]

Jeb has wasted a lot of money

Not even close to how much his brother wasted though.

[Nbadan]

Well....maybe this is finally the end...


Several Jeb Bush campaign workers are already shopping their résumés with Florida political consultants as expectations mount inside his team that their candidate won’t push on after South Carolina.

“I can unequivocally tell you that people are looking for work, because they say they’ve been led to believe that they won’t have a job because the campaign won’t be around any longer or their jobs won’t because the campaign won’t have any money,” said one Republican who helps run one of the Florida campaigns and who is a Bush donor.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/jeb-bush-staffers-campaign-jobs-219518#ixzz40fmc1ZkM

[boutons_deux]

Not even close to how much his brother wasted though.

... which is nothing compared to Ms of bodies, minds killed, maimed, Ms of people, families displaced. The evil dubya and dickhed did will continue for decades.

Vote Repug. They're STRONG on national security (but only after 9/11 and for BigOil).

[boutons_deux]

will JEB finally give up?

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=south%20carolina%20results&eob=m.06yxd/R/2/short/m.06yxd/

[DMX7]

Jeb is dropping out... he looks sad.

[Mitch]

I expected the guy to stay in longer :lol

[DMX7]

The presumptive nominee done after 3 states and $100M+ spent.

[boutons_deux]

Jeb Bush Flops In South Carolina, Suspends Presidential Campaign (http://link.huffingtonpost.com/click/6146425.385180/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5odWZmaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vMjAxNi8wMi 8yMC9qZWItYnVzaC1zb3V0aC1jYXJvbGluYS1wcmltYXJ5X25f OTI4MzQ1Ni5odG1sP2lyPVBvbGl0aWNzJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj 0wMjIwMTYmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPUFs ZXJ0LXBvbGl0aWNzJnV0bV9jb250ZW50PUZ1bGxTdG9yeSZuY2 lkPW5ld3NsdHVzaHBtZzAwMDAwMDAz/4cb49acab61807701f9bf35eB9831e3a0)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-south-carolina-primary_us_56c8ba1de4b041136f1736b4?ir=Politics&section=us_politics&utm_campaign=022016&utm_content=FullStory&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Alert-politics

I guess he'll go be an investment banker or BigCorp lobbyist, and make $100Ms.

[AFBlue]

Rubio with strong statements about Jeb, calling him the best governor in Florida's history. It could be heartfelt sentiment, but there's little doubt he's angling for the small grouping of Jeb voters across the US.

[boutons_deux]

Rubio with strong statements about Jeb, calling him the best governor in Florida's history. It could be heartfelt sentiment, but there's little doubt he's angling for the small grouping of Jeb voters across the US.

the Cubans got nada.

[Reck]

Damn, how do you get outlasted by Carson? :lmao

[ducks]

Bush loser

[SnakeBoy]

http://watchmen-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Bush-crying-2.jpg

[rmt]

Rubio with strong statements about Jeb, calling him the best governor in Florida's history. It could be heartfelt sentiment, but there's little doubt he's angling for the small grouping of Jeb voters across the US.

Meanwhile, Trump says nothing about Jeb. I think that's a mistake (even though his super pac spent so much on ads vs Trump) - take the high road and be gracious.

[boutons_deux]

"him the best governor in Florida's history"

I'm sure the current gov, the monstrous, criminal Rick Scott, appreciates that.

[DMX7]

Rubio with strong statements about Jeb, calling him the best governor in Florida's history. It could be heartfelt sentiment, but there's little doubt he's angling for the small grouping of Jeb voters across the US.

He and Cruz bent over backwards to call Jeb great.... OBVIOUSLY they are angling for his supporters (including financial ones)

[DMX7]

Meanwhile, Trump says nothing about Jeb. I think that's a mistake (even though his super pac spent so much on ads vs Trump) - take the high road and be gracious.

He said his weakness is that he doesn't forget.

[ElNono]

At this point, him and Kasich were only taking votes away from Rubio, tbh... As much as I like Kasich from that field, he has no chance and should also really walk away and get behind Rubio if they want to have any hope of making the race against Trump competitive....

[djohn2oo8]

At this point, him and Kasich were only taking votes away from Rubio, tbh... As much as I like Kasich from that field, he has no chance and should also really walk away and get behind Rubio if they want to have any hope of making the race against Trump competitive....

Probably going to end up a brokered convention. They will do all they can to stop Trump.

[spurraider21]

crazy that a guy has to drop out of the running because of results in iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina. such a retarded system

[boutons_deux]

crazy that a guy has to drop out of the running because of results in iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina. such a retarded system

Jeb's been down in the poll noise for months and now voters confirm he's a loser.

[hater]

Bush was getting anally impaled and could nit take it any more.

Trump claims another victim. 3 to go and then he will make Shillary go away in a similar manner

[spurraider21]

yeah, i'm not saying bush woulda won in any scenario, he was unelectable with his last name and with him constantly defending his brother... just commenting on the nomination system in general

[Reck]

he will make Shillary go away in a similar manner

:lol

Never gonna happen. She's leading that dude in all the national polls.

Literally, he has zero chance.

[DMX7]

:lol

Never gonna happen. She's leading that dude in all the national polls.

Literally, he has zero chance.

That's totally wrong. He is going to hit her hard with attacks and they will be devastating. She is not a great candidate to begin with, and Trump won't hold back exploiting that.

[boutons_deux]

The epic nature of Jeb Bush’s failure

The last time the Republican Party won a presidential election without a Bush or a Nixon on the ticket? 1928. This year, they’re going to try to break the streak – unless Jeb somehow ends up as the nominee’s running mate, which seems extremely unlikely.

And speaking of history, the Floridian has earned an ignominious place in American electoral history. Never before has a candidate raised such an extraordinary amount of money, only to fail spectacularly. We’ve seen former frontrunners stumble, but we’ve never seen anything quite like Jeb Bush’s rise and fall.


Remember, Bush had a game plan that seemed sensible: he’d launch his exploratory committee early, position himself as the frontrunner, lock up the party’s biggest donors, and rely on a “shock and awe” perception to keep competitive rivals out of the GOP race. Since the candidate favored by party insiders and the Republican establishment always seems to end up as the nominee, Jeb had reason to be optimistic.

But only part of the gambit worked. Bush did, in fact, raise an incredible amount (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/20/nearly-100-million-in-super-pac-money-couldnt-save-jeb-bush/) of money, but competitors entered the race anyway, and his stacks of cash proved to be inconsequential: the more Team Bush invested, the worse the candidate fared.

There wasn’t a single moment that doomed Jeb’s candidacy, though his week-long struggle with a question about whether the war in Iraq was a good idea still stands out as a turning point in the race. What’s more, he didn’t falter as a result of a scandal or humiliating gaffe.

Bush’s problem was more fundamental. He was the wrong candidate with the wrong message at the wrong time. He had strengths – a conservative record, a family pedigree, a willingness to talk about public policy in a half-way serious way – which just happened to be the exact opposite of what Republican primary voters were looking for in 2016. Bush, who hasn’t run a successful campaign since 2002, at times seemed surprised to discover a GOP electorate he hardly recognized (http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/jeb-bush-leaves-behind-party-he-can-barely-recognize).

This morning, I dug up the post (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/jeb-bush-set-launch-far-where-he-hoped-be) I published on the day Jeb formally kicked off his campaign, and I noted at the time that, as a result of his last name, Bush would face a natural, unavoidable resistance, which he could only overcome by being an exceptional candidate.

But there was simply nothing exceptional about his candidacy. He was a clumsy and underwhelming campaigner, with poor instincts, and lackluster debating skills, who seemed wholly unprepared – not only for Donald Trump’s bullying, but also for the national spotlight.

Quitting must have been difficult, but it was a merciful end to an epic failure.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-epic-nature-jeb-bushs-failure?cid=sm_fb_maddow

[Reck]

That's totally wrong. He is going to hit her hard with attacks and they will be devastating. She is not a great candidate to begin with, and Trump won't hold back exploiting that.

He can attack her all he wants. He simply doesn't have enough supporters nationally. He will get crushed without assistance from the independent vote which will undoubtely go to to the dem side if Trump is nominated.

[rmt]

He can attack her all he wants. He simply doesn't have enough supporters nationally. He will get crushed without assistance from the independent vote which will undoubtely go to to the dem side if Trump is nominated.

I actually think that a lot of Bernie supporters will go for Trump if Hillary is nominated - they are kinda similar.

“The candidate is considered a political outsider by all the pundits. He’s tapping into the anger of the voters, delivers a populist message. He believes everyone in the country should have healthcare, he advocates for hedge fund managers to pay higher taxes, he’s drawing thousands of people at his rallies, and bringing in a lot of new voters to the political process. And he’s not beholden to any super PAC. Who am I describing?” Brzezinski asked.

Without missing a beat, Trump added that he is not beholden to any special interests or donors, before confidently asserting, “You’re describing Donald Trump.”

There was only one problem: she wasn’t. Instead, Brzezinski told the billionaire businessman that she was describing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, a self-avowed Democratic socialist.

“Actually, I was describing Bernie Sanders,” the MSNBC host said with a smirk, as the audience began to awkwardly laugh.

Trump, who appeared surprised, simply said, “Well, that’s good.”

He went on to say that he and Sanders agree that the U.S. is being “ripped off big league on trade,” but he said the Democratic candidate can’t do anything about it “because he doesn’t understand it.”

And if Bernie is competing so well with Hillary without attacking her personally, what's gonna happen when Trump starts in on her - you know there's nothing he won't say.

[Reck]

I actually think that a lot of Bernie supporters will go for Trump if Hillary is nominated - they are kinda similar.

“The candidate is considered a political outsider by all the pundits. He’s tapping into the anger of the voters, delivers a populist message. He believes everyone in the country should have healthcare, he advocates for hedge fund managers to pay higher taxes, he’s drawing thousands of people at his rallies, and bringing in a lot of new voters to the political process. And he’s not beholden to any super PAC. Who am I describing?” Brzezinski asked.

Without missing a beat, Trump added that he is not beholden to any special interests or donors, before confidently asserting, “You’re describing Donald Trump.”

There was only one problem: she wasn’t. Instead, Brzezinski told the billionaire businessman that she was describing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, a self-avowed Democratic socialist.

“Actually, I was describing Bernie Sanders,” the MSNBC host said with a smirk, as the audience began to awkwardly laugh.

Trump, who appeared surprised, simply said, “Well, that’s good.”

He went on to say that he and Sanders agree that the U.S. is being “ripped off big league on trade,” but he said the Democratic candidate can’t do anything about it “because he doesn’t understand it.”

And if Bernie is competing so well with Hillary without attacking her personally, what's gonna happen when Trump starts in on her - you know there's nothing he won't say.

They're outsiders--about the only thing they share.

Sander's ideals and what he wants to do doesn't even come close to what Trump is having in mind.

[DMX7]

He can attack her all he wants. He simply doesn't have enough supporters nationally. He will get crushed without assistance from the independent vote which will undoubtely go to to the dem side if Trump is nominated.

This is not your usual election cycle like 2012. Bernie Sanders supporters aren't going to flock to Hillary unless maybe she makes him VP. Trump is going to appeals to more people than you think. The pundits keep doubting him and he keeps proving them wrong.

[hater]

Shillary is 100x more unlikeable than Trump. He will run circles around her. It wont be a fair fight

[hater]

This is not your usual election cycle like 2012. Bernie Sanders supporters aren't going to flock to Hillary unless maybe she makes him VP. Trump is going to appeals to more people than you think. The pundits keep doubting him and he keeps proving them wrong.

Nuke truth

[RandomGuy]

Trump takes another step closer to the GOP nomination.

Holy F***.

[RandomGuy]

I actually think that a lot of Bernie supporters will go for Trump if Hillary is nominated - they are kinda similar.

“The candidate is considered a political outsider by all the pundits. He’s tapping into the anger of the voters, delivers a populist message. He believes everyone in the country should have healthcare, he advocates for hedge fund managers to pay higher taxes, he’s drawing thousands of people at his rallies, and bringing in a lot of new voters to the political process. And he’s not beholden to any super PAC. Who am I describing?” Brzezinski asked.

Without missing a beat, Trump added that he is not beholden to any special interests or donors, before confidently asserting, “You’re describing Donald Trump.”

There was only one problem: she wasn’t. Instead, Brzezinski told the billionaire businessman that she was describing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, a self-avowed Democratic socialist.

“Actually, I was describing Bernie Sanders,” the MSNBC host said with a smirk, as the audience began to awkwardly laugh.

Trump, who appeared surprised, simply said, “Well, that’s good.”

He went on to say that he and Sanders agree that the U.S. is being “ripped off big league on trade,” but he said the Democratic candidate can’t do anything about it “because he doesn’t understand it.”

And if Bernie is competing so well with Hillary without attacking her personally, what's gonna happen when Trump starts in on her - you know there's nothing he won't say.

No, no we won't. Haven't talked to a single Bernie supporter that would vote for Trump without a gun pointed to their head.

[hater]

Bernie supporters will most likely nit vote which that equates to a vote in favor of Trump :lol

[rmt]

Bernie supporters will most likely nit vote which that equates to a vote in favor of Trump :lol

Yep. And GOP voters are turning out - not so much on the dem side.

[boutons_deux]

Yep. And GOP voters are turning out - not so much on the dem side.

If it's Trump, Cruz, Rubio on the Repug side, the Dems will come en masse to vote negative, against any Repugs, just like they did in 2008, absolutely didn't want anything to do with more Repug fuckups, wars, etc.

[rmt]

Didn't they turn out to vote for Obama (the 1st black president) - not necessarily against the repubs?