Jeb Bush Bashes Romney, Obamacare In New Book

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Source: TPM

Jeb Bush’s new tome, “Immigration Wars: Forging An American Solution,” hit bookstores on Tuesday and is already making waves in the immigration debate and 2016 sweepstakes alike.

Bush’s book, co-authored by Goldwater Institute director Clint Bolick, shares a lot in tone and style with other works by plausible presidential candidates. A lot of feel-good American rhetoric, inspiring anecdotes about average citizens, hat tips to popular causes in the party, and reminders of the author’s accomplishments in unrelated areas (in this case, education.) Its core parts are a framework for immigration reform and a political manifesto about GOP outreach to Latinos, both of which are hotly debated within the party and could be directly affected by Bush’s book. Here are some of the highlights:

Obamacare Is Bad Because Citizens Whose Parents Are Illegal Get Benefits

Here’s a surprise. Seemingly out of nowhere, Bush condemns the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, recently accepted by his successor, Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL), for doling out “welfare” to the children of illegal immigrants.

“This is why the Obama administration’s attempt to coerce states to adopt a major Medicaid expansion as part of its national health-care program had the effect of inflaming anti-immigration sentiment,” he and co-author Clint Bolick write. “Although the administration assured the states that illegal immigrants would not be eligible for Medicaid benefits, their children who are born in the United States are eligible because they are citizens. Moreover, if illegal immigrants are offered a path to citizenship or permanent legal residency, eventually they will become eligible as well. Fortunately the US Supreme Court struck down the Medicaid expansion by a 7-2 vote as unduly coercive and therefore contrary to constitutional principles of federalism. The proposal should not be resurrected.”

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[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. A little man screaming for attention (nt)

[groundloop]

2. Obviously Jeb's going after the tea-bag vote for 2016

[neffernin]

3. Third Bush

may be the brightest of them all. I sure hope that doesn't help him in his asperations.

[Lasher]

4. He wasn't even in the room when that book was written.

He gets just as much respect from me as JFK got from Republicans.

[olddad56]

7. he was in the other room coloring in his book.

[BlueStater]

5. More Bushit.

Really does seem like he's setting himself up to run in three years. We're never going to be rid of this horrible family. There'll probably still be fucking Bushes running for office 100 years from now.

[blueclown]

6. The court didn't strike down the Medicaid expansion, you moron.

SCOTUS simply said that the federal government could not take away all of the old Medicaid money that they pay the states if they did not take the new money that the federal government was offering (90%!) to cover newly eligible individuals as defined under the law.

[rocktivity]

8. TRANSLATION: Jeb Bush Begins 2016 Presidential run

rocktivity

[Octafish]

9. Jeb Bush frightened Michael Moore.

That takes some doing.

Beware, America: This guy won't limit drones to those who "deserve it."

[Volaris]

10. ANNNNNDDDDD THAT'S why it's an Imperial Power NO President should have,

unless Congress has Declared War. An Authoriztion for Use of Military Force is a cop-out, not a policy document.