Friday, July 24, 2015

Jeb Bush's position on most everything is pandering. But, thinking he is entitled to the Presidency, running is a burden.

Donald Trump has a better chance at the nomination with Jeb Bush stating Medicare has to be phased out and seriously meaning it. 

Hello?

This Medicare issue is not new. Not for a Bush. "W" wanted two trillion US dollars to begin to privatize health insurance for Americans. This is an agenda, not simply a passing fancy to find the Paul Ryan voters.

Jeb Bush is dead serious about ending Medicare. 

One might say Jeb Bush isn't even close to the descriptive "Progressive."

July 24, 2015
By David Jackson
So, Jeb Bush (click here) says he was flipping around the television dial Wednesday, and ran across a media phenomenon with which he was unfamiliar.
That’s right: Sharknado!
“It’s kinda weird,” Bush said in a video tweeted out by his campaign Friday....

Bush has been trying to find things that will stick to the wall to remove attention from Donald Trump.

July 24, 2015
 
Jeb Bush, (click here) who is sitting at second place in the Republican primary race, recently endorsed a fairly unusual policy proposal for a conservative: abolishing subsidies for fossil fuels. At a meeting with New Hampshire voters recorded by the environmentalist group 350 Action, Bush said he would abolish all subsidies for all energy sources, be they renewables, oil, or coal.

 
Sacrificing renewable subsidies to abolish the ones for fossil fuel probably wouldn't be a great trade (though it might be in a few years, when renewables are cheap enough). But this counts as relative progress for conservatives, who are typically joined at the hip with the oil industry. Bush couched it in the usual conservative rhetoric about not picking "winners and losers," but that still represents a departure from the typical conservative approach to this issue (read: rank hypocrisy). No doubt he is getting angry calls from the Koch brothers at this very moment....

June 24, 2015
By Adam C. Smith and Kirby Wilson

...Even as Bush (click here) and his allies publicly tsk tsk The Donald's inflammatory rhetoric, many of them are quietly thrilled at how helpful Trump has been, albeit unintentionally.
"When this is all said and done, it will be to Jeb's credit that he had a crazy son of a (gun) riding him in the early going, because it made him look much more sane," said Tallahassee lobbyist and former Bush political strategist J.M. "Mac" Stipanovich. "And for the Republicans in the mid to lower tiers in this huge primary field, Trump has been a huge detriment. They have not been able to gain traction or get attention to make any kind of move."...

July 23, 2015

Jake Tapper compares Jeb Bush's (click here) positive statements on John McCain's military service to his less than enthusiastic feelings on John Kerry's in 2005. 

Jeb Bush thanked Colonel Bud Day for defaming Senator Kerry.

Jeb Bush calls #BlackLivesMatter a "slogan" (Reuters) (click here)

Jeb Bush doesn't have a clue about the peril the African Americans have been facing. Nor does he care. I would think that is obvious. I think it was the former Mayor Bloomberg that recognized the huge chasm young black men face in achieving in life in the USA. There is no shame in recognizing the USA has not treated all it's citizens fairly. There is something right about recognizing there are problems in the USA and seek ways to fix it. Jeb Bush doesn't care. His attitude panders to 'the Republican racist.'