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Jeb Bush: I Would Govern Like Lyndon Johnson as President
Breitbart ^ | 15 Feb 2013 | Tony Lee

Posted on 05/15/2014 2:03:41 PM PDT by george76

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said he would strive to be like Lyndon Johnson, the Democrat famous for expanding the U.S. welfare state through the "Great Society," if he were elected president.

According to the Miami Herald, Bush made those comments Wednesday night in San Antonio, Florida at Saint Leo University, while speaking about education, immigration, and energy policy.

Bush did not address Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty programs, about which Ronald Reagan once famously quipped, "We had a war on poverty, and poverty won."

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amnesty; bush; illegal; illegalimmigrants; illegals; immigrants; immigration; jeb; jebbush; jebbush2016; lyndonjohnson; socialism; uniparty
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1 posted on 05/15/2014 2:03:41 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Thanks for telling us ahead of time. Now I won’t waste my time...................


2 posted on 05/15/2014 2:05:01 PM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: george76

Probably the most truthful thing he ever said.

Which is why he cannot ever be allowed near The White House.


3 posted on 05/15/2014 2:05:32 PM PDT by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period. PALIN/CRUZ 2016)
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To: george76

Jeb just shut UP! You are starting to make Biden look brilliant!


4 posted on 05/15/2014 2:05:38 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: george76

Well, at least he’s honest about how he’s going to govern. That is all I ask from a politician. If a politician is honest about expanding the gov’t and people still vote for him, then people deserve what they get.


5 posted on 05/15/2014 2:05:42 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: george76

Just like his father and idiot brother did when they were in the white house


6 posted on 05/15/2014 2:06:12 PM PDT by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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To: george76

Old Jeb wants his a$$ kissed in the front window of Macys and the folks will say :”ohh that was sweet!”


7 posted on 05/15/2014 2:06:14 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (Some people say that experts agree!!)
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To: george76

Great. We’ll have riots in the streets and get into a long unwinnable war.


8 posted on 05/15/2014 2:06:52 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: george76

go away already! go, go, go! and take Huckabee with you!


9 posted on 05/15/2014 2:07:01 PM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: george76

So would he take a leak in the yard?


10 posted on 05/15/2014 2:07:29 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: george76

He’d unzip his fly and take out his Johnson and show it off to people in the oval office?


11 posted on 05/15/2014 2:07:36 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: george76

Why is this guy a Republican?


12 posted on 05/15/2014 2:07:42 PM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: george76

I won’t vote for this weasel.


13 posted on 05/15/2014 2:08:14 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Kartographer

I’d actually pick Biden over this, my rationale being that he is still somewhat grounded in reality.

I’m not certain that you could find a DEMOCRAT who would make this statement.


14 posted on 05/15/2014 2:08:18 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: george76

Does that mean he will bug the Democrats campaign headquarters or their campaign airplanes,or run a political dirty tricks committee out of the White House?


15 posted on 05/15/2014 2:08:27 PM PDT by ballplayer
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To: george76

Did we just get Semmens’d? I can’t believe he would be that stupid to say something like that unless he planned to run as a closet demonrat.

How close is he to Crist?


16 posted on 05/15/2014 2:08:31 PM PDT by x1stcav ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")
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To: george76

We should send Jeb a thank you card. At least he’s honest, which Johnson wasn’t.


17 posted on 05/15/2014 2:08:32 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (.)
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To: P-Marlowe

“Excuse me while I whip this out.”


18 posted on 05/15/2014 2:08:36 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: george76
On another thread, there's a statement that Allen West might consider running.

It was reported he had said, ". . . not just for me but for the country and for the future of this great constitutional republic."

My response was with West, at the very least, America would have a potential candidate before them who knows from his study of history that ours is a "constitutional republic," not a "democracy" which is bound to adhere to "international norms."

Tocqueville visited in the American wilderness of the 1830's, whom he described in the following manner:

"It cannot be doubted that in the United States the instruction of the people powerfully contributes to the support of the democratic republic; and such must always be the case, I believe, where the in ­ struction which enlightens the understanding is not separated from the moral education ...."

"The American citizen, he said, "..will inform you what his rights are and by what means he exercises them .. In the United States, politics are the end and aim of education ... every citizen receives the elementary notions of human knowledge; he is taught, moreover, the doctrines and the evidences of his religion, the history of his country, and the leading features of its Constitution .... it is extremely rare to find a man imperfectly acquainted with all these things, and a person wholly ignorant of them is a sort of phenomenon .... It is difficult to imagine the incredible rapidity with which thought circulates in the midst of these deserts [wilderness]. I do not think that so much intellectual activity exists in the most enlightened and populous districts of France."

Congratulations to West for correctly identifying the Constitutional structuring of "the People's" form of self-government left to future generations by the Founders! He is in good company, as the following excerpts from an historical document will confirm.

John Adams' son, John Quincy, was 9 when the Declaration of Independence was written, 20 when the Constitution was framed, and from his teen years, served in various capacities in both the Legislative and Executive branches of the government, including as President. His words on this subject should be instructive on the subject at hand.

In 1839, he was invited by the New York Historical Society to deliver the "Jubilee" Address honoring the 50th Anniversary of the Inauguration of George Washington. He delivered that lengthy discourse which should be read by all who love liberty, for it traced the history of the development of the ideas underlying and the actions leading to the establishment of the Constitution which structured the United States government. His 50th-year summation seems to be a better source for understanding the kind of government the Founders formed than those of recent historians and politicians. He addresses the ideas of "democracy" and "republic" throughout, but here are some of his concluding remarks:

"Every change of a President of the United States, has exhibited some variety of policy from that of his predecessor. In more than one case, the change has extended to political and even to moral principle; but the policy of the country has been fashioned far more by the influences of public opinion, and the prevailing humors in the two Houses of Congress, than by the judgment, the will, or the principles of the President of the United States. The President himself is no more than a representative of public opinion at the time of his election; and as public opinion is subject to great and frequent fluctuations, he must accommodate his policy to them; or the people will speedily give him a successor; or either House of Congress will effectually control his power. It is thus, and in no other sense that the Constitution of the United States is democratic - for the government of our country, instead of a Democracy the most simple, is the most complicated government on the face of the globe. From the immense extent of our territory, the difference of manners, habits, opinions, and above all, the clashing interests of the North, South, East, and West, public opinion formed by the combination of numerous aggregates, becomes itself a problem of compound arithmetic, which nothing but the result of the popular elections can solve.

"It has been my purpose, Fellow-Citizens, in this discourse to show:-

"1. That this Union was formed by a spontaneous movement of the people of thirteen English Colonies; all subjects of the King of Great Britain - bound to him in allegiance, and to the British empire as their country. That the first object of this Union,was united resistance against oppression, and to obtain from the government of their country redress of their wrongs.

"2. That failing in this object, their petitions having been spurned, and the oppressions of which they complained, aggravated beyond endurance, their Delegates in Congress, in their name and by their authority, issued the Declaration of Independence - proclaiming them to the world as one people, absolving them from their ties and oaths of allegiance to their king and country - renouncing that country; declared the UNITED Colonies, Independent States, and announcing that this ONE PEOPLE of thirteen united independent states, by that act, assumed among the powers of the earth, that separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitled them.

"3. That in justification of themselves for this act of transcendent power, they proclaimed the principles upon which they held all lawful government upon earth to be founded - which principles were, the natural, unalienable, imprescriptible rights of man, specifying among them, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - that the institution of government is to secure to men in society the possession of those rights: that the institution, dissolution, and reinstitution of government, belong exclusively to THE PEOPLE under a moral responsibility to the Supreme Ruler of the universe; and that all the just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed.

"4. That under this proclamation of principles, the dissolution of allegiance to the British king, and the compatriot connection with the people of the British empire, were accomplished; and the one people of the United States of America, became one separate sovereign independent power, assuming an equal station among the nations of the earth.

"5. That this one people did not immediately institute a government for themselves. But instead of it, their delegates in Congress, by authority from their separate state legislatures, without voice or consultation of the people, instituted a mere confederacy.

"6. That this confederacy totally departed from the principles of the Declaration of independence, and substituted instead of the constituent power of the people, an assumed sovereignty of each separate state, as the source of all its authority.

"7. That as a primitive source of power, this separate state sovereignty,was not only a departure from the principles of the Declaration of Independence, but directly contrary to, and utterly incompatible with them.

"8. That the tree was made known by its fruits. That after five years wasted in its preparation, the confederation dragged out a miserable existence of eight years more, and expired like a candle in the socket, having brought the union itself to the verge of dissolution.

"9. That the Constitution of the United States was a return to the principles of the Declaration of independence, and the exclusive constituent power of the people. That it was the work of the ONE PEOPLE of the United States; and that those United States, though doubled in numbers, still constitute as a nation, but ONE PEOPLE.

"10. That this Constitution, making due allowance for the imperfections and errors incident to all human affairs, has under all the vicissitudes and changes of war and peace, been administered upon those same principles, during a career of fifty years.

"11. That its fruits have been, still making allowance for human imperfection, a more perfect union, established justice, domestic tranquility, provision for the common defence, promotion of the general welfare, and the enjoyment of the blessings of liberty by the constituent people, and their posterity to the present day.

"And now the future is all before us, and Providence our guide."

In an earlier paragraph, he had stated:
"But this institution was republican, and even democratic. And here not to be misunderstood, I mean by democratic, a government, the administration of which must always be rendered comfortable to that predominating public opinion . . . and by republican I mean a government reposing, not upon the virtues or the powers of any one man - not upon that honor, which Montesquieu lays down as the fundamental principle of monarchy - far less upon that fear which he pronounces the basis of despotism; but upon that virtue which he, a noble of aristocratic peerage, and the subject of an absolute monarch, boldly proclaims as a fundamental principle of republican government. The Constitution of the United States was republican and democratic - but the experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived; and it was obvious that if virtue - the virtue of the people, was the foundation of republican government, the stability and duration of the government must depend upon the stability and duration of the virtue by which it is sustained."

19 posted on 05/15/2014 2:09:11 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: dfwgator

Anther Little Bitty Jesus!


20 posted on 05/15/2014 2:09:20 PM PDT by Internet Walnut
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