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Jeb Bush Mysteriously Decides That 'Hurricane Katrina' Is A Good Nickname To Give Someone
Forbes:It’s never clear exactly what’s going on in Jeb Bush’s head. On Wednesday, Bush jovially dubbed a South Carolina state senator, Katrina Shealy, with one of his family’s trademark nicknames:
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Forbes again:
“Hurricane Katrina” is not a good nickname. The storm, and the floods that came in its aftermath, killed nearly 2,000 people, including 14 in Florida. Vast areas were laid to waste. New Orleans was nearly submerged when its levees collapsed. The events of the disaster changed many lives. Ten years have passed, but that’s not nearly enough time to assign the events of August 2005 to the history books, or to start getting whimsical with the name. Nor would someone want that nickname. So, mild insensitivity points to Bush.
But “Hurricane Katrina” is also a particularly bad Bush family nickname. There’s something very odd about Jeb Bush specifically evoking the nickname thing in this context, because of his brother’s famous comment to FEMA director Michael Brown, the recipient of his own Bush nickname, when emergency management had totally fallen apart: “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.”
Once again Bush has stumbled into the dusty room of his brother’s presidency. Why does it keep happening? Few people these days are actively contemplating a third Bush in the White House. But Jeb obviously is. And when he contemplates it, on some level his brain stops working. He can’t erase or defend the disasters that haunt George W. Bush’s two terms. But he can’t condemn them either. So we end up with ambivalent – and in this case, weirdly inappropriate – statements. Everybody knows where the minefields are, yet he keeps wandering into them anyway.
But “Hurricane Katrina” is also a particularly bad Bush family nickname. There’s something very odd about Jeb Bush specifically evoking the nickname thing in this context, because of his brother’s famous comment to FEMA director Michael Brown, the recipient of his own Bush nickname, when emergency management had totally fallen apart: “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.”
Once again Bush has stumbled into the dusty room of his brother’s presidency. Why does it keep happening? Few people these days are actively contemplating a third Bush in the White House. But Jeb obviously is. And when he contemplates it, on some level his brain stops working. He can’t erase or defend the disasters that haunt George W. Bush’s two terms. But he can’t condemn them either. So we end up with ambivalent – and in this case, weirdly inappropriate – statements. Everybody knows where the minefields are, yet he keeps wandering into them anyway.
The sob thinks he is so deservedly clever and entitled to adoration.
I can't recall a politician as tone deaf and repulsive as this one.
Republican presidential candidate and former Florida governor Jeb Bush meets with New Hampshire voters at Nashua Community College on December 19. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) Link
We'll still be after this guy in 2016.
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