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Bullshit, Mr. Bush.
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Tell us, Governor Bush, what would leadership look like here?
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“his stance remains something of a mystery.”
Naaaaah. His stance is obvious: wide.
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I thought he was the smart one? He’s using very old talking points. Someone running for President should have new talking points. Well, actually they need the same talking points with slightly different words.
I love the one where Obama destroyed any hope of immigration reform. Republicans have held the White House for the majority of the past few decades. They’ve had a couple times with full control of the government. Immigration never came up. Immigration reform only ever comes up when the Democrats try to do it and Republicans stop them.
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This is all Americans need to know about Jeb Bush. He used his office as Governor to interfere in a family’s private medical and legal dispute. He should have this thrown in his face everyday.
Bush first intervened in 2003 as the Schindlers’ legal appeals were coming to an end. A judge’s ruling that Michael Schiavo, Terri’s legal guardian, could remove her feeding tube had withstood years of court challenges. But the governor took the unusual step of writing the judge and asking him to assign a different guardian.
“I normally would not address a letter to the judge in a pending legal proceeding,” Bush wrote. “However, my office has received over 27,000 emails reflecting understandable concern for the well-being of Terri Schiavo.”
His request was rejected.
On Oct. 21, 2003, six days after the feeding tube was removed, the GOP-controlled Legislature passed a one-page bill granting the governor the power to order the tube reinserted. Bush signed it into law, and a police-escorted ambulance moved her from a hospice to a hospital, where the tube was put back in.
Nearly a year later, the Florida Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional. Bush appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, was rejected and asked Congress to intervene. Lawmakers, including then-Sen. Clinton, voted to give Terri Schiavo’s parents legal standing to appeal anew in the federal courts, which then rejected their case.
In a last-ditch effort, Bush tried to have the state Department of Children and Families take custody of Terri Schiavo, based on allegations that she had been abused by her husband and caregivers. The move was rebuffed by the presiding judge.
On March 31, 2005, Terri Schiavo died.
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icymi - there was a fascinating article on Jeb Bush and how political dynasties work in the Times.
“Shouldn’t there be some compassion?” is awfully close to the line Rick Perry had to walk back.
Side note: I guess we should be thankful that Mitt Romney’s brood aren’t parlaying their contacts into a political dynasty.
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In fairness, W. did bring up immigration reform…and was resoundingly drubbed across the knuckles by his own party for daring such an act. Reagan also took steps to address the issue, but that’s something most of the right just as soon forget, since it detracts from the faux sainthood they have bestowed upon him.
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Yes, it is debatable which one is the smart one. Jeb’s losing votes by the day.
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His “position” will only get murkier and less clear as 2016 gets closer.
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Whiter of course.
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It’s going to be an ugly two years leading up to the 2016 national election. Hopefully, it won’t become even uglier for more years as a result of the election.
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“Last year, the president overstepped his executive authority and, in turn, hurt the effort toward a common sense immigration solution.”
Gov. Bush, we know you don’t want to re-litigate the past, but let’s have a recap anyway:
The House passes the DREAM Act in 2010. Senate Republicans block it.
The Senate passes bipartisan immigration reform in 2013. House Speaker Boehner refuses to bring it up.
President Obama postpones his immigration executive action after being assured by Boehner that it will come up, It doesn’t, and so Obama acts.
Again, I realize this is history – which you’d rather avoid – but as your more-celebrated brother might have said on the subject, those who flunk history are condemned to repeat it in summer school. Or something.
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The Jebster should self-deport…
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Hazy defines everything Jeb Bush stands for…and against. Look for more of these ambiguousky gay/immigration/birth control statements in the future from the supposedly Smarter Brother. The only real attack he ever supported was the unnecessary one against Iraq and veiled ones now against Iran.
Yes, there was such a groundswell toward sensible immigration reform.
Three wrongs don’t make a right.
Jeb is the same double talker, and liar his brother was. Same bs, different brother.
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Jeb is smarter I think, but that’s not saying much.
It is true. I had forgotten W Bush did bring up immigration reform. I have this weird feeling that he would have been a much better President if he had been born into a family of Democrats.