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BUSH 45: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE JEB BUSH PRESIDENCY
Breitbart ^ | December 14, 2014 | Virgil

Posted on 12/14/2014 1:16:44 PM PST by Jim Robinson

January 21, 2025

Now that Jeb Bush—known widely as Bush 45, or Bush cuarenta y cinco, or, simply, El Jefe Jeb—has completed his two terms in the White House, we can look back and summarize some of the major events of his administration.

As we know, America has seen great change during the third Bush presidency, starting with its population, which has grown by some 30 percent these past eight years. Indeed, today, well more than 400 million people live in America—most of them either citizens, or citizens-to-be. And while establishing Spanish as the Second Language of America has not been without controversy, such mandatory bilingualism is, as House Speaker Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) has said, a fitting tribute to the historic trailblazing role of First Lady Columba Garnica Gallo Bush.

And so it’s worth pausing over some of the highlights of the Bush 45 era.

We can start, first, with the Milagro de 2016—the Miracle of 2016. In particular, how did Jeb manage to overcome the accumulated “Bush fatigue” of the previous three-and-a-half decades? How did Jeb transcend the instinctive anti-dynastic impulses of the American people?

Part of his success was a deliberate indirection as to his intentions. For the better part of three years, from 2013 to 2015, Jeb seemed to go back and forth, zigging and zagging; that is, he would seem like a candidate one day, and then seem not like a candidate the next day. During that time, many other possible Republican candidates had their brief moment in the sun; yet none were able to gain momentum so long as Jeb was waiting in the wings...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2016election; bush; bush45; election2016; florida; illinois; jeb; jebbush; luisgutierrez
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To: logic101.net

We need to proliferate RINOs. Come on Jeb, Mittens, Fat Boy, Goober, and the rest!


41 posted on 12/14/2014 4:08:20 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Retired Chemist

So is everyone going to stay home on election day if Bush is the candidate and enable other 4 years of advancing the Liberal agenda for our country?

Yes.


42 posted on 12/14/2014 4:10:44 PM PST by Deathtomarxists (It walks up stairs all over in pairs it makes a whispering sound, its obama's stinky slinky)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

“The new budget bill passed permitting donations of $324,000 to candidates. Jebs team will make sure there is no shortage of well-funded conservative candidates.”

What have you been smoking?


43 posted on 12/14/2014 4:14:13 PM PST by Deathtomarxists (It walks up stairs all over in pairs it makes a whispering sound, its obama's stinky slinky)
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To: omniscient

He certainly looks like his mother.


44 posted on 12/14/2014 4:17:06 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: DoughtyOne

Who are your one or two “to the core” conservatives?


45 posted on 12/14/2014 4:18:59 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Jim Robinson

Bush 45 will have two words in it..No way..or maybe three words: ‘No F**king Way!’


46 posted on 12/14/2014 4:24:40 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Retired Chemist

Compared to Charlie Crist, yes he was... compared to Gov. Rick Scott, Jeb sucked. Sorry no more Kennedys, Clinton’s, Rockefeller’s, Bushes, Tafts or any other political families.


47 posted on 12/14/2014 4:31:01 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: ExCTCitizen

Barack won’t be the last Obama politician.


48 posted on 12/14/2014 4:31:44 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

I’m in for Cruz right now. There’s talk of several others, but I’m not dead set on them yet. I don’t want to name them because I’m not.

I could be talked off Cruz too, if I were to find out some things I don’t know about yet.

I’m not one of these guys who picks a guy early, and then won’t change no matter what.

What I do know, is that I won’t be backing Jeb.


49 posted on 12/14/2014 4:51:17 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: DoughtyOne

My first choice is Allen West but I support Cruz as well.


50 posted on 12/14/2014 4:54:17 PM PST by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

I like Allen. I am not convinced he has enough Executive leadership skills yet. That may be an inaccurate perception, but so far that’s my take. With more time, I could back him. I like what I’ve seen.


51 posted on 12/14/2014 5:24:14 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: Retired Chemist
So is everyone going to stay home on election day if Bush is the candidate and enable other 4 years of advancing the Liberal agenda for our country?

Yes, with great joy.

NEVER AGAIN WILL I VOTE FOR A RINO.

52 posted on 12/14/2014 5:42:43 PM PST by sand88 (We can never legislate our way back to Liberty)
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To: Bettyprob

“I have a real hard time imagining the American public electing Jeb Bush as President.”

The purpose of a bush nomination would be to keep democrats in power.


53 posted on 12/14/2014 5:45:31 PM PST by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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To: RedMDer

>>Otherwise we get to vote for bad choice #1 or bad choice #2.<<

THAT is the problem. We let them dictate to us what bad choice to make. No more of this “hold your nose” crap. At this point in our history, it doesn’t matter which wing of the Uniparty is in control.

The solution is simple: take away their power - money, volunteers and votes. It won’t matter who wins; we lose. NOTHING EVER CHANGES.


54 posted on 12/14/2014 7:18:33 PM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Alas Babylon!

dear alas!,

Tbl ‘govoryou po-Ispanski’, dah?

‘yah govoryou po-russki’.

ni kagda nichevaw pahnimaiyou po-ispanski!!!


55 posted on 12/15/2014 7:39:35 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Jim Robinson

He caved on Schiavo when doing so would hurt his ambitions. No mas Bushes.


56 posted on 12/15/2014 11:16:20 AM PST by eleni121 ("All Along the Watchmaker" Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9)
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To: Retired Chemist

“So is everyone going to stay home on election day if Bush is the candidate and enable other 4 years of advancing the Liberal agenda for our country?”

Yes.

I would rather have a democrat in office we can fight tooth and nail than a moderate republican who’ll have his agenda rubber-stamped by conservatives in Congress just because of his party affiliation.


57 posted on 12/20/2014 6:13:52 AM PST by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: highball

That attitude helped elect ad reelect Obama.


58 posted on 12/20/2014 7:56:30 AM PST by Retired Chemist
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To: Retired Chemist

I don’t care. Better Obama to oppose than his doppelgänger Romney, who would have pursued the same agenda with the eager assistance of Republicans in Congress.

If we don’t start standing up for this nation, we’ll never get her back on the right track.


59 posted on 12/20/2014 3:47:43 PM PST by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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