The original report of Jeb Bush's speech is reproduced below from C4P as it appeared in the Breitbart report from the Miami Herald
The comments at Breitbart are in the main massively unfavorable, here is a taste;
1. Arguably, the worst president of the 20th century. Good to know you've raised the bar.
2. Over 58,000 men and women died because of LBJ. Millions of people are on welfare because of his war on poverty. Even though he may have had a knack for cajoling people to get what he wanted, for any Republican to use the man in anyway favorably is a disgrace."
3. Over 1 million Vietnamese also died. not to mention the south Korean troops and the Australian troops. the 2 million or more Cambodians.
4. I remember LBJ very well, he sent me off to war, then he quit on us and when I got home from that war Nixon was President. Ho Chi Minh was 10 times the leader LBJ ever thought of being, he never quit on his people like our leaders have done.
5. If only Reagan had picked Kemp instead of Bush...
these are just a few of many suchlike, especially from those who lived through the Johnson era and its aftermath. Which aftermath brought, amongst many other disasters, Nixon/Watergate/a bloated welfare state/ governments using lies to go to war.
Perhaps it was this last Johnson effort, using the
Gulf of Tonkin incident to falsely commit America to a disastrous, murderous war which is so reminiscent of "weapons of mass destruction" from the Bush/Powell administration that makes Jeb nostalgic for LBJ.
Jeb Bush does not say he wants to govern like LBJ in respect of his social and economic programs, but in the manner in which he got his legislation, for better or worth, with truth and lies, through Congress. The general consensus amongst commentators is "no thanks".
The last thing America wants is a strong arm president who will do anything to get his way. Surely the end result of the last such president is enough to make people run a mile from the concept.
And running they are. At Breitbart, at least, the response is that Jeb has well and truly shot himself in the foot, is a creature of Karl Rove and if the Establishment succeeds in foisting him on them as the 2016 candidate they will stay at home in droves or vote for/create a third party.
"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.
According 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.
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. “He 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,’’ 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."
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. “To me — and I’m
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. "
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. "
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