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Oh My – Jeb Bush Believes in Climate Change?

Republicans are known for criticizing climate and climate change. They call climate change and the science that backs it up a liberal conspiracy. And now this, the Republican savior for the 2016 election, Jeb Bush, is signaling that he too believes in climate change.

Oh the calamity!

Bush (R) acknowledges human activity contributes to climate change but cautioned against actions that would harm the U.S. economy. In written answers to Bloomberg BNA, Bush said the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan is “irresponsible and ineffective” and “oversteps state authority.” He also tells Bloomberg BNA reporter Anthony Adragna that phasing out the renewable fuel standard “over time” is the “proper thing to do.” Bush, who served as Florida governor from 1999 to 2007, also called approving the proposed Keystone XL pipeline a “no brainer.”

Bloomberg BNA:Is climate change occurring? If so, does human activity significantly contribute to it?

Bush: The climate is changing; I don’t think anybody can argue it’s not. Human activity has contributed to it. I think we have a responsibility to adapt to what the possibilities are without destroying our economy, without hollowing out our industrial core.

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Bernie Sanders Responds to Bush’s Call for Longer Working Hours

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has something to say about Jeb Bush’s recent comments that Americans need to work longer hours. Appearing on MSNBC’S The Ed Show, Sanders broke it down so that even a Bush could understand.

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Jeb Bush’s Economic Plan – “People Should Work Longer Hours”

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush speaks during the Wall Street Journal CEO Council in Washington, DC, December 1, 2014. AFP PHOTO / Jim WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
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I guess when your father was a failed president of the United States, and your brother was a failed President of the United States and you are running to carry on their failed legacy, then it is quite reasonable for you to think that working longer hours is the key to success.

Bush told New Hampshire’s The Union Leader that to grow the economy, “people should work longer hours.”

He was answering a question about his plans for tax reform and responded:

“My aspiration for the country and I believe we can achieve it, is 4 percent growth as far as the eye can see. Which means we have to be a lot more productive, workforce participation has to rise from its all-time modern lows. It means that people need to work longer hours” and, through their productivity, gain more income for their families. That’s the only way we’re going to get out of this rut that we’re in.”

Already the Democratic National Committee has pounced, releasing a statement that calls his remarks “easily one of the most out-of-touch comments we’ve heard so far this cycle,” adding that Bush would not fight for the middle class as president.

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Trump’s Deleted Tweet Attacking Jeb Bush’s Wife – PIC

Don’t look for the tweet in Donald Trump’s twitter feed. It has since been deleted by the Republican presidential candidate.

This is the man Republicans apparently love. In some recent polls, he is number one in the race to be their presidential nominee.

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Republicans Fooled Again – New Poll Has Donald Trump in Second Place – #Insanity

In case you didn’t know, Donald Trump is really not running for President. Yes, I know, he made an announcement stating that he is running, but believe me when I tell you that he isn’t. What Trump is doing now is something he has done multiple times in the past – fool Republicans into thinking that he is running so he can sell a book or gain more viewership for his television show or get more reservations in his hotels. It worked in the past, so chances are it will work again in Trump’s favor.

And the Republican voter simply cannot figure this out!

Take this new poll as an example. There are those out there who really believe Donald Trump is running for president! A new national poll has Donald Trump in second place to Jeb Bush. According to the poll by Suffolk University, Bush is sailing away with a grand old 15%. Trump is a distant second at 11%.

No other candidates are in double digits, with 8 percent for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, 7 percent for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, 6 percent for retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, 5 percent for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and 4 percent each for businesswoman Carly Fiorina, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

“Jeb Bush continues to lead, but Donald Trump has emerged as an anti-Jeb Bush alternative in New Hampshire,” said David Paleologos, the director of the Suffolk University poll. “Many of those who like Trump are voting for him, and although many more dislike him, the unfavorables are split up among many other candidates. It’s the politics of plurality.”

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Fifteen Days In June

Ready for the summer? Well hold on because the next 15 days will be key to determining the shape of the presidential race.

First up is Jeb Bush. The smart one. The able one. The one who thinks through his actions before taking them. The one with the long-term policy proposals that are not exactly aligned with the conservative wing of the Republican Party. The one who is daddy’s favorite.

The one whose brother absolutely ruined the Bush name. Dang.

Jeb is not a bad candidate and he’s making an effort to separate himself from George W. The extent to which he can do that will determine whether he successfully fends off more base-friendly candidates like Scott Walker, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. Right now, it looks like many Republicans are wary and might be looking elsewhere. If Jeb can raise enough money and scare off some other candidates, he can win, but he’ll have to convince many right wing voters of his commitment to their cause.

Governor Chris Christie is also getting ready to announce his run fresh off a victory courtesy of a New Jersey State Supreme Court ruling in his favor on the landmark state worker’s pension and benefits bill he negotiated with the Democratic legislature in 2011. He’s running on his ability to work with the opposite party, but the problem is that he’s repudiated his own law and the court ruled it to be unconstitutional. Now the Democrats have sworn not to negotiate further with him. Will he mention any of this?

Of course not. Christie will shamelessly repeat that he can work with Democrats, but that train has left the station. Plus, he has the Bridgegate scandal to answer to and a problem making himself stand out from the rest of what will probably be a 15 candidate field. His first job is to make sure that he’s polling high enough to be included in the first GOP debate in August. He’s good in debates and in front of crowds, so I wouldn’t count him out yet. But he’s got a tough race ahead of him.

Hillary Clinton also began her push for the presidency yesterday. She gave a good speech and is clearly focusing on the middle class and income inequality. She’s a bit farther to the left than her husband, but the Democratic Party is also more liberal these days. Her problem is similar to Jeb’s in that we know a great deal about her and her past. She has a clearer road to the nomination, but she does need to be mindful about giving too much to the Sanders-Warren wing of the party.

And don’t forget that we have two big Supreme Court decisions yet to be announced between now and June 30 on marriage equality and ACA subsidies. By July 1 we’ll have a good idea of how the candidates will need to adjust their messages in light of whatever the court decides.

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Donald Trump on Iraq “We shouldn’t have been there”

Now that Jeb Bush is totally ridiculed by both Democrats and Republicans for saying that, given what he knows now he would still invade Iraq, other Republican presidential pretenders are jumping on the bandwagon trying to distance themselves from Jeb Bush, George Bush and the whole Iraq invasion.

Enter presidential pretender, Donald Trump. Apparently, he and Preside Obama are in one accord when it comes to the Iraq invasion.

On “Fox and Friends,” co-host Steve Doocy asked Trump about reports that the Islamic State took control of Ramadi in Iraq and whether Trump would call for “boots on the ground” following ISIL’s latest attack.

“Well, I would have never been in Iraq,” Trump answered, according to a clip highlighted by Mediaite.

Co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck later asked Trump if he thinks the U.S. should have left Iraq, given what we know now.

“We shouldn’t have been there, and once we were there, we probably should have stayed,” Trump said. “The Middle East has been totally decapitated. It’s a mess. The balance has been lost between Iraq and Iran.”

Trump then referenced Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who on Sunday struggled to explain whether the decision to invade Iraq was a mistake.

“These characters, like Rubio made a total fool of himself on Chris Wallace’s program, talking about ‘We’re better off without Saddam Hussein.’ Give me a break,” Trump said. “Right now we have ISIS, which is worse than Saddam Hussein. At least Saddam Hussein did one thing: he killed terrorists. He was very good at killing terrorists.”

Trump noted that Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction.

“We had very bad intelligence. He had none,” he said.

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Laura Ingraham on Jeb Bush – “there has to be something wrong with you”

The Bush family cannot do anything wrong, no matter what the rest of the country thinks, no matter what the rest if the world thinks. And that sentiment was demonstrated in a recent interview when Jeb Bush said his brother George was absolutely right to invade Iraq, and that he, Jeb, would have done the very same thing too, even “knowing what we know now.”

In an interview on Fox, Jeb – a potential candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016 – acknowledged that even “knowing what we know now,” he would invade Iraq just as his brother did back in 2004.

“I would,” Jeb said. “And so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody.”

But as I mentioned above, the vast majority of Americans and the world disagree with the Bush family on this one, even some in the higher echelons of the Republican party. Laura Ingraham – another candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016 – concluded that Jeb Bush must be insane.

“You can’t still think that going into Iraq, now, as a sane human being, was the right thing to do,” Ingraham said on her radio show. “If you do, there has to be something wrong with you.”

But it should come as no surprise that “knowing what we know now,” Jeb would still invade. In another bombshell recording, Jeb told a group of donors that his brother George, the same former president who authored the failed foreign policy of the Iraq war, was one of his top foreign policy advisers.

This is not a joke people. These Bush (es) just don’t get it. Although everybody see the fault in starting a war based on lies, Jeb is prepared to walk in his brother’s footsteps again even given what we know now.

Maybe Laura Ingraham is right. Maybe there is something insane about that family.

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OMG – Jeb Bush Says George Bush is His Top Foreign Policy Adviser – #Insanity

Here we go again. Another unwanted and unnecessary trip down Bush lane. Do we really want George Bush advising anyone on foreign policies? What is he advising Jeb on, telling him what not to do?

Bush cited his brother, former President George W. Bush, as one of his main advisers on the Middle East in a private meeting in Manhattan on Tuesday, according to three people who attended the off-the-record event.

The comment came as a shock to some who were in the room because Jeb, a likely presidential contender, has taken pains to publicly distance himself from his brother and his controversial policies, particularly in that area of the world.

In a national security speech in February, Bush said, “I am my own man,” and he has insisted he would develop his own policies on foreign affairs if he decides to run for president.

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Glenn Beck – “Jeb Bush is Hillary Clinton LITE” – Video

Glenn Beck went back to his home turf, Fox News, and was interviewed by his good friend and comrade, Bill O’Reilly on his recent comments about leaving the Republican party. And after detailing a long long long list of areas where he said the Republicans have failed him and the country, Beck then concluded that voting for another Republican like Jeb Bush, is like voting for Hillary Clinton.

He likes Ted Cruz for 2016 so that alone should give you an idea of where Beck is coming from. But listening to him detail some of the areas where Republicans have failed him, was wonderful. Beck listed immigration and Taxes as areas of contention with his party, and of course, included in his long list of reasons why he’s leaving the Republicans is Benghazi.

O’Reilly tried, but failed to convince Beck that voting Republican is the best way to go. Beck however, was adamant and concluded that voting for Jeb would be the same as voting for Hillary Clinton.

“Jeb Bush is Hillary Clinton lite”, Beck said, as Bill O’ once again lied to his audience with the unfounded claim that the economy was “pretty good” under George W. Bush. Bill O’ then accused Beck of living in “fantasy land!”

Watch the exchange below.

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Ludacris To Jeb Bush – The Bush Outside is My Favorite

Okay, here’s the lead up to the Ludacris and Jeb Bush encounter!

Apparently, Ludacris’ foundation is doing some great charitable work so he was invited to the House of Representatives in Atlanta GA., for a formal recognition of said work. Jeb Bush was there on other business and someone thought it would be great if Bush was seen with Luda. Let’s call it their black outreach attempt.

The meeting happened and a pic was taken. Then Jeb tweeted with excitement that Luda was his “opening act!”

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Look, It’s George Bush… Oops, I Mean Jeb

I mean come on! Do you really think that because Jeb went on television and tried his best to throw Georgie under the bus by saying he’s his own man, that he’s really that different to Georgie?

“I recognize that as a result, my views will often be held up in comparison to theirs,” Jeb Bush said, speaking about his father and his infamous brother, Georgie. “But I am my own man.”

If you really think so then just take a quick look at Jeb’s advisors. They’re the same group of misfits that advised Georgie to lie us into a war in Iraq.

The Washington Post said, “the 21 names announced by his campaign-in-waiting as supporters and advisers on foreign policy did not provide much indication of what direction Bush would take.

“The list represents the full spectrum of views within the Republican foreign policy establishment — from relative moderates, including former secretaries of state George P. Shultz and James A. Baker III, to staunch neoconservatives such as Iraq war architect Paul D. Wolfowitz.”

Yea Jeb, you’re not George,  *wink wink*

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