That certainly is an odd thing to say for a Republican trying to win over other Republicans!!!
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3:45 PM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > *Jeb Bush: I Would Govern Like Lyndon Johnson as President > **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. > *by Tony Lee 15 Feb 2013 > > > According<http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/14/3234145/former-gov-jeb-bush-talks-immigration.html#storylink=misearch%23storylink=cpy>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." > > Instead, he was referencing Johnson's mastery of the so-called > sausage-making process in Congress. > > He vowed to approach the presidency as "master of the Senate," as > biographer Robert Caro described Johnson. > > 滴e went and he cajoled, he begged, he threatened, he loved, he hugged, he > did what leaders do, which is they personally get engaged to make something > happen,鋳 Bush said of Johnson. Bush cited Caro's latest book about Johnson, > *The Passage of Power, *which covers the first part of Johnson's > presidency. > > The wheeling and dealing Johnson loved and relished is what will be needed > to pass bills such as immigration regulations. That process is also how > government gets expanded and cronyism thrives, as Peter Schweizer's > nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute and directer Stephen K. > Bannon documented in > "Boomtown."<http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/25/Boomtown-Special-Assails-D-C-Permanent-Political-Class-for-Extracting-Wealth-from-Taxpayers> > > Bush, who has a book on comprehensive immigration reform due out next > month, said it was "un-American" to have illegal immigrants living in fear > of exposure. > > 典o me -- and I知 here at this great Catholic institution and this is what > my church teaches me -- it is completely un-American to require people > living in the shadows," he declared. > > > http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/02/15/Jeb-Bush-I-d-Strive-to-Be-Like-Lyndon-Johnson-if-Elected-President > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PoliticalForum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- brine http://brineb.blogspot.com/ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
