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Title: REPOST - COVERING HIS WORTHLESS RINO BUTT - Jeb Bush defends ‘act of love’
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Published: Jul 27, 2015
Author: By MAGGIE HABERMAN
Post Date: 2015-07-27 14:37:52 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
Keywords: JEB BUSH, 2016, AMNESTY, ILLEGAL ALIEN
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Jeb Bush defended his controversial comments about immigration reform, insisting they were nothing new for him and urging “sensitivity to the immigrant experience.”
Bush, who like Hillary Clinton faces the potential challenge of making a long-familiar name in politics seem fresh, repeatedly emphasized the need for the country to be “young and dynamic.”
STAMFORD, Conn. — Jeb Bush defended his controversial comments about immigration reform, insisting they were nothing new for him and urging “sensitivity to the immigrant experience.”
At a Connecticut Republican party dinner Thursday night, the former Republican governor of Florida did not repeat his remarks from last weekend at his father’s presidential library, when he said that people who come to the United States illegally in search of a better life for their children “broke the law, but it’s not a felony. It’s an act of love.”
This time the potential 2016 candidate put it differently.
Bush’s initial comments ignited a firestorm of criticism
“This past weekend, I made some statements about immigration reform [that] generated a little more news than I anticipated,” Bush told the crowd of more than 700 guests at the annual Prescott Bush Award dinner, an event named for his grandfather.
“You know, I’ve been saying this for the last three or four years, I said the exact same thing that I’ve said regularly,” he said. “And the simple fact is, there is no conflict between enforcing our laws, believing in the rule of law and having some sensitivity to the immigrant experience, which is part of who we are as a country.”
“It is not an American value to allow people to stay in the shadows,” Bush added, saying he’d just learned of a high school athlete at Miami Beach High School who’s been in the U.S. since he was a young boy but who was told to go back “to his native land…[the message the young man received was] you’re not worthy of being successful in our country.”
Bush’s initial “act of love” comments ignited a firestorm of criticism from conservatives. Bush hasn’t campaigned for elected office in 12 years, but is weighing a bid in 2016.
Bush has long advocated for immigration reform. But the issue has taken center stage in politics recently in a way it hadn’t in almost a decade, as President Obama and Senate Democrats have pushed for a comprehensive reform package the past year.
The younger brother of George W. Bush began his speech by acknowledging his wife, Columba, and their 40-year marriage, which other speakers before him took note of.
“I wish Columba could be here to hear me applaud with compassion and conviction” when that was mentioned, he said, describing how they met when he was in high school. “Forty years of marriage for me is a big darn deal and I love her very much.”
Bush’s speech sounded every bit like a dry run at a stump address, touching the topics of repealing and replacing Obamacare, the position of the United States in international relations, developing energy sources, fixing the tax code and reforming education.
Bush, who like Hillary Clinton faces the potential challenge of making a long-familiar name in politics seem fresh, repeatedly emphasized the need for the country to be “young and dynamic.”
“We can talk about it, we can yearn for it, or we can” try to fix the broken elements of the economy, he said, painting immigration reform as an economic driver.
He also called for entitlement reform, saying it could only happen once Obama left office. “We must fix our entitlement system before it overwhelms everything else,” he said. “We need to be real with the American people that this is not sustainable.”
He received his biggest applause when he declared that “we must repeal Obamacare and replace it with a consumer-directed, market-oriented” system.
He described a nation in which “economic and social mobility now has stalled out,” and repeated a theme from his recent speeches, that the party needs to stand for something again.
He denounced the phrase “the new normal – every time I hear it I get really sick to my stomach.”
“What we ought to do is to say that the new normal is that we’re young, and energetic and emerging again as a nation,” he said.
And he emphasized “leadership,” saying Republicans need to win in the fall midterm races – especially in governors’ races around the country. He referred only briefly to his own tenure as governor, in relation to his focus on education reform.
He also refrained from attacking Obama by name, but made clear jabs at his policies.
“We’re less of a force for peace and security around the world,” he said, adding that “terms like ‘leading from behind,’ and red lines that seem to have no meaning [are]…creating a tremendous uncertainty. Our alliances are weakened, our friends are uncertain and our enemies seem to be emboldened.”
He never mentioned 2016. But former Connecticut gubernatorial hopeful Linda McMahon, who was honored with the Prescott Bush award, made a passing reference to it in her speech.
So did Bush’s cousin, Debbie Stapleton, who noted that Bush’s mother, Barbara, recently said that Jeb Bush “would be the most qualified person in the country.
Now, what do you think she was referring to?”
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Jeb Bush’s Employers Getting Rich Off “Love Crime” Illegals and Obamacare
It's something like infuriating to see a rightist pundit use the legal/illegal fig leaf like that. IMMIGRATION, PERIOD, is the problem!
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Earth to Jeb Bush
Exclusive: Joseph Farah whomps 'gilded prince' over comments about illegal immigration
He sounds like Barack Obama.
He’s condescending. He’s rude to people who simply want the duly passed laws of the land to be honored and executed. He’s holier than thou. And he’s clueless.
Here’s what he said last week about the subject at an event marking the 25th anniversary of his father’s presidency: “A great country ought to know where those folks are and politely ask them to leave. … There are means by which we can control our border better than we have. And there should be penalties for breaking the law. But the way I look at this – and I’m going to say this, and it’ll be on tape and so be it. The way I look at this is someone who comes to our country because they couldn’t come legally, they come to our country because their families – the dad who loved their children – was worried that their children didn’t have food on the table. And they wanted to make sure their family was intact, and they crossed the border because they had no other means to work to be able to provide for their family. Yes, they broke the law, but it’s not a felony. It’s an act of love. It’s an act of commitment to your family. I honestly think that that is a different kind of crime that there should be a price paid, but it shouldn’t rile people up that people are actually coming to this country to provide for their families.”
I’m not quite sure where to start in dissecting this touch-feely mumbo-jumbo. But let me take a crack at it.
People who believe that borders, language and culture are critical to the survival of a nation are not haters. They do not impugn the motives of those who long to come to America as most of our ancestors did. They do not want to lynch those who come here illegally. They simply demand an orderly and legal process for everyone to follow – for the safety and security of the nation. They want the law enforced. That’s it. What’s so hard to understand about that?
Apparently Jeb Bush believes only felonies should be prosecuted. Apparently he thinks a crime that is not a felony is an act of love.
This is just nonsense. It shows how severely out of touch with the ordinary citizenry this gilded prince really is. Nominating someone like this for the presidency will ensure the Republicans remain in the political wilderness again in 2016 and beyond.
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Posted on 22 April, 2014 by Rick Wells
The New York Times reports that when Jeb Bush left office seven years ago, he had a net worth of a paltry $1.3 million and a determination to make it grow.
Bush gave it his all with Lehman Brothers, in a frenzied last-minute attempt to keep it afloat that was ultimately unsuccessful. As a paid adviser, he met with Mexican cell phone billionaire Carlos Slim Helú in an attempt to convince him to make a large investment in the firm.
It seems Mr. Bush’s ties to Mexico run deep.
Within a year of leaving the Governor’s mansion in Florida, Bush was onboard at Lehman Brothers, assigned to Project Verde, an attempt to get their hands on Mr. Slim’s Green.
There were other documented conversations between Lehman executives regarding the possibility of Bush enlisting the help of his brother, the President, to persuade the British Prime Minister to allow a merger with a British bank as well as other suggestions. All parties to the conversations indicate that those contacts were never initiated.
Curiously, Barclays, which took over Lehman Brothers now employs Bush to the tune of “in excess of $1 million a year.”
Bush is also tight with Tenet Health Care, a company that aggressively supported and promoted Obamacare due to the profit potential it offered. Perhaps that is why he loves the Mexican “love criminals.” They’re good for his bottom line.
Bush’s corporate track record could someday rival that of his brother Neil. He was employed by InnoVida, a company that went bankrupt in 2011, and whose founder went to prison. The investors lost virtually all of their money.
The company insiders, as it turns out, had utilized faked documents, lied about the health of the business and misappropriated $40 million in company funds.” After a Democrat who lost millions on his InnoVida investment told Bush about the trouble with the company, Bush investigated them.
Jeb Bush also was a board member at Swisher Hygiene, a soap manufacturer. The executives acknowledged at the time that their financial statements were unreliable and that their accounting was inadequate. Once that admission was made, the stock nose-dived and a wave of lawsuits from damaged investors ensued.
Since 2007 Bush has been everywhere, from Wall Street to consulting to real estate.
He’s earned at a minimum $3.2 million from public companies alone, with his speechmaking bringing in millions more.
It’s clear why he’s an establishment GOP favorite and why he’s pro-illegal immigration. He claims it’s his idea of the right thing to do. The assumptions that he is speaking from a humanitarian position rather than from a financial one for his employers might be overly generous.
Rick Wells is a conservative author who believes an adherence the U.S. Constitution would solve many of today’s problems. “Like” him on Facebook and “Follow” him on Twitter.
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It’s infuriating to listen to Jeb Bush talk about illegal immigration.
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