Bush: Jeb ‘would be an awesome U.S. senator.’
By on Dec 16th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Bush: Jeb ‘would be an awesome U.S. senator.’
In an interview with RealClearPolitics, President Bush vouched for the bona fides of his brother, who is considering a run for the U.S. Senate. “He would be an awesome U.S. Senator,” the president said. “He is a proven leader who, when given responsibilities, succeeded,” Jeb’s older brother said. (HT: The Hill’s Briefing Room)
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Now we know for sure… Georgie HATES Jeb.
December 16th, 2008 at 11:37 amMake way for President Jeb in 2016, folks… If you liked the GW Bush years you’re gonna LOVE it when “the smart Bush” is in charge.
God help us all.
December 16th, 2008 at 11:40 amDo something for the Environment.
December 16th, 2008 at 11:42 amKeep all the Bushes out of DC, forever.
Bush I: One war, one recession, one term.
Bush II: One coordinated multicity attack on U.S. soil
followed by a coordinated biologic attack on U.S.
Two wars, two recessions and (remarkably) two terms.
Bush III: If the American electorate allows this to happen,
December 16th, 2008 at 11:46 amwe deserve whatever we get.
The Crime Family name will keep this from happening. We will not recover from the damage of the past eight years in time for him to distance himself from his big brother.
December 16th, 2008 at 11:49 amNO. HELL NO. PLEASE GOD NO.
Haven’t we had enough of the Bushes? That family has had members in positions of power for too long. Bush 41 spent 12 years in the White House. Bush 43 has spent eight. That is twenty years of Bush mismanagement and gross incompetence.
We don’t need another Bush in power, anywhere. Period.
December 16th, 2008 at 11:50 amWhat would really be “awesome” would be to rid ourselves of the entire Bush family, including their spawn, from every level of United States government. Federal, state, county, city, all of it.
December 16th, 2008 at 11:51 amOT:
Where’s Marvin Bush? He disappeared real fast after being in charge of security of the Trade Towers. Are they grooming him for the next gov. of Fla?
Connect the dots.
December 16th, 2008 at 11:52 am#8 after 9/11.
December 16th, 2008 at 11:54 amThe Bolsheviks solved this type of problem after the Revolution. Exterminate them all.
December 16th, 2008 at 11:54 amYou know what would be “awesome”? George Bush breaking rocks in federal prison for the rest of his life and the rest of the Bush crime family run out of America for national security reasons.
December 16th, 2008 at 11:56 amTHE REVOLVING DOOR OF BUSH’S, CLINTON’S AND KENNEDY’S……THE AMERICAN PEA BRAINED PEONS ARE HAPPY TO CELEBRATE THE ROYAL AMERICAN FAMILIES AND KEEP THEM IN CONTROL.
DEMOCRACY IS TRULY DEAD IN THIS COUNTRY
December 16th, 2008 at 11:58 amHow about that nice hotel in Cuba..It’s still open and the outfit’s would fit them all..Bright orange is such a nice color for all the bush’s…Lot’s of vacancie’s I hear and already paid for….Blessings
December 16th, 2008 at 12:01 pmSorry, forgot to add…I think it was approved by bush and cheney so let’s sent them all there…..Blessings
December 16th, 2008 at 12:02 pmRemember – this is the man who said “Heckuvajob Brownie.”
December 16th, 2008 at 12:02 pmThat’s weird. I looked up “awesome” in the dictionary and it doesn’t mean incompetent, corrupt, genocidal, megalomaniac.
December 16th, 2008 at 12:03 pmHe said the same thing about Miers, didn’t he? I guess that means Jeb is severly underqualified and a totally partisan idealogue.
December 16th, 2008 at 12:05 pm“He would be an awesome U.S. Senator,” the president said.
Awesome, as in “That train wreck was awesome.”
December 16th, 2008 at 12:08 pm“awesome”, huh? Reminds one of what Dumbya said after listening to a speech by the Pope — “Awesome speech, your holiness.”
It’ll be nice to go back to having a President who doesn’t sound like a frat boy trying to impress his Saturday night nookie target every time he talks…
December 16th, 2008 at 12:09 pmYeah, Mel Martinez ‘decided to seek ways to spend more time with his family’
…
after finding the head of the family dog on his childrens’ swingset…
December 16th, 2008 at 12:14 pmApparently Jeb is profiting nicely since his Governorship, but money doesn’t always satisfy huge egos like the Bush’s.
December 16th, 2008 at 12:16 pmWe need another Bush like W needs more shoes…
Southern Beale Says:
Make way for President Jeb in 2016, folks… If you liked the GW Bush years you’re gonna LOVE it when “the smart Bush” is in charge.
God help us all.
December 16th, 2008 at 11:40 am
If they were smarter than they were megalomaniacal, they’d wait til ‘12.
But i think they’re confident that they’ve left the country in such a critical condition that hot God and all his angels is gonna fix it, especially against the connivance of a GOPuke party that will be adamantly obstructionist, viciously partisan and recalcitrant to approve ANY changes Obama or his people propose, no mater how ineffectual they will be.
Neither Jeb nor any puke can hope to run against a successful Obama record. Especially given the magnitude of the problems, any ’success’, no matter how minor, will seem a farouking triumph. So there won’t be any.
And if they can make Obama a failure in under 4 years, there’s no reason to wait the full eight.
Bush/Palin ‘12!
Gay-ron-TEE, cher…
December 16th, 2008 at 12:20 pmBy now the word (last name)Bush is synonym of failure, colossal failure!
December 16th, 2008 at 12:22 pmThe very *thought* of another Bush in our government makes me sick to my stomach.
NO MORE BUSH!!!! EVER.
December 16th, 2008 at 12:32 pmrastaman Says:
THE REVOLVING DOOR OF BUSH’S, CLINTON’S AND KENNEDY’S……THE AMERICAN PEA BRAINED PEONS ARE HAPPY TO CELEBRATE THE ROYAL AMERICAN FAMILIES AND KEEP THEM IN CONTROL.
DEMOCRACY IS TRULY DEAD IN THIS COUNTRY
Is there a wingnut conspiracy theory about Obama being a Clinton love child or something? Are you claiming that Bigdog fathered Obama while he was in Oxford smoking pot and dodging the draft? Cuz otherwise, your premise is flawed.
December 16th, 2008 at 12:35 pmJeb is still popular in Florida, though. Particularly the panhandle, where Florida is more like Alabama than South Beach.
December 16th, 2008 at 12:36 pmBefore Jeb inters the race he will have to explain why he was given 1 million dollars from a failed bank on work he never did. He might think the name Bush could help but after 8 years of crime people might think twice. The Bush name now represents corruption at it’s highest level unlike the Kennedy name which still stands for protecting the American people.
December 16th, 2008 at 12:47 pmJackie Says:@December 16th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Yes, but you forget, we still have a corporate media — unless things change with that regard soon — that stuff will never be reported on, just like Bush 43’s cocaine problem, his drunken driving, his drinking, the alleged abortion he paid for, his AWOL service status….ad infinitum…
Re-regulate this country Congress! It’s the only way Democracy survives!
December 16th, 2008 at 1:05 pmJeb’s base
December 16th, 2008 at 1:28 pmAnd what will these fine organizations do without Jeb’s board leadership?
Lehman Brothers Private Equity adviser (now Neuberger Investment Management)
Tenet Healthcare Board of Directors
CNL Bancshares Board
Rayonier Board of Directors
George W. left Tenet’s Memorial Medical Center and their total 34 patient deaths out of his White House Hurricane Katrina Lessons Learned report. A year later, Jeb lands a spot on the Board with over $400,000 annual pay.
Jeb should be in a position of political power to continue Bush’s Corporafornication.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:43 pmI will not give comfort to the Bush Crime Family and predict a bright future for any Bush. After the horrible effect they have had on the USA any American would have to be a complete idiot to want these unAmerican demons in power again.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:58 pmOooo – the Bush kiss of death.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:27 pmJeb would be just as good as a Senator as I’ve been as a Pez-i-dent
December 16th, 2008 at 2:32 pmThe Fed loaned $138 billion to a Lehman subsidiary right after it declared bankruptcy.
Jeb Bush worked as an adviser for Lehman’s private equity division. Bush cousin George Herbert Walker headed up Lehman’s Neuberger Investment Management.
Why did the Fed act secretly, when Treasury wouldn’t intervene publicly? Did it have anything to do with the hot Presidential campaign?
George W.’s bailing out close relatives would’ve been political suicide for Republicans. In mid-September the race was fairly close.
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/how-the-fed-reached-out-to-lehman/
December 16th, 2008 at 2:49 pmJust the thought of having another Bush in office makes my stomach turn. Hillary Clinton has to revise her quote to say: It took a Clinton to clean up the first Bush’s mess, now it will take another Clinton to clean up the mess of the second and third Bush.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:50 pmJeb Bush would be absolutely awesome and admired by all if he was an only child.
December 16th, 2008 at 3:54 pmI don’t see how he can recover from this.
December 16th, 2008 at 7:28 pmI don’t want to see or hear a word from any member of THAT family every…..they have destroyed this country, grabbed everything that wasn’t nailed down for their rich friends and he’s leaving office they way he came in with a big middle finger to the country.
December 16th, 2008 at 8:08 pmOh. I thought he just hated us.
December 16th, 2008 at 9:17 pm