Jeb Bush’s terrifying W. strategy: How he’s sucking up to extremist billionaires—with the help of th

[DonViejo]

Jeb Bush’s terrifying W. strategy: How he’s sucking up to extremist billionaires—with the help of the worst president ever

Jeb recently said he goes to his brother for Israel advice. That should scare you for a billion different reasons

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

With these thirteen simple words GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush struck terror into the entire world yesterday. He said,

“If you want to know who I listen to for advice, it’s him.”

To whom was he referring? As hard as it is to believe, he was talking about his brother, George W. Bush.

Now it’s true that the question referred to Israel and the Middle East specifically, but it doesn’t really matter. There isn’t any area of policy or interest in which it would be smart to make such an admission. After all, it was during George W. Bush’s tenure that we had the nation’s most catastrophic terrorist attack, that we made the most notorious foreign policy blunder in American history, and that we suffered the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression. Indeed, when you look at it that way, you have to give Jeb points for chutzpah, for daring to run at all. It’s only been 7 years since his brother left office with a 34 percent approval rating — which was actually quite an improvement from where he’d been mired for his final year in office. But for Jeb to actually suggest that he would listen to his brother or ask him for advice seems rather reckless.

It must be noted that Bush II’s ratings improved substantially once he retired from public view and has limited his appearances to self-portraits of himself in the tub, and Instagrams of his cute grandkids. But even after presenting himself for seven years as the nation’s slightly dotty old uncle who only shows up for Thanksgiving and Christmas, he is still loathed by half the people in the country. And one assumes that when they are reminded of his actual presidency, many of them will go back to the negative column. Those weren’t good times.

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[world wide wally]

1. Does this surprise anyone?

His advisors are all former Dubya advisors.
Is America ready for that shit all over again?

[Hekate]

2. KnR

[hifiguy]

3. Titanic II is in the drydock.

Cap'n Jeb is ready to take command.