Jeb Bush: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Waterboy

[Brian4Liberty]

Jeb Bush: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Waterboy
Michelle Malkin | Dec 17, 2014

Allow me to unite America's left, right and center in just three words: No, Jeb, No.
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Well, I hate to break it to Jeb Inc. There's no popular groundswell for Bush Part III. None, zip, nada. Independents, progressives and conservatives are all weary of the entrenched bipartisan dynasties that rule Washington and ruin America. Only in the hallowed bubble of D.C. and New York City elites does a Jeb Bush presidential bid make any sense.

Jeb's indulgent (and ultimately doomed) enterprise has three privileged constituencies: Big Business, Big Government and Big Media. ... The "Reasonable Republican," anointed and enabled by the statist Big Three, serves as a useful tool for bashing conservatives and marginalizing conservatism.
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To blunt criticism from the grassroots base on the right, Jeb's cheerleaders at the Wall Street Journal cite his "conservative" gubernatorial record of cutting taxes and privatizing jobs. So we're supposed to swoon when a GOP governor acts like he's supposed to act on standard, bread-and-butter GOP issues? Whoop-de-doo.

One thing Jeb's promoters won't be emphasizing: Over the course of his eight years in the Florida governor's mansion, government spending skyrocketed. The libertarian Cato Institute notes that Florida general fund spending "increased from $18.0 billion to $28.2 billion during those eight years, or 57 percent" and that "(t)otal state spending increased from $45.6 billion to $66.1 billion, or 45 percent."

Like big-spending father, like big-spending big brother, like big-spending second son and lil' brother.
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Jeb Bush's agenda is neither left nor right. His agenda is the agenda of the D.C. headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Remember: The chamber is a politically entrenched synod of bipartisan special interests. As I've said before, these fat cats do not represent the best interests of American entrepreneurs, American workers, American parents and students or Americans of any race, class or age who believe in low taxes and limited government.
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The Chamber supports the top-down, privacy-undermining, local autonomy-sabotaging Common Core racket. Jeb Bush spearheaded and profited from Common Core -- and accuses those of us who oppose it of opposing academic excellence for our own children. Jeb's problem isn't just Common Core. It's that he has no core. Instead of retreating from the costly federalized scheme that has alienated teachers, administrators and parents of all backgrounds, Bush has doubled down with his Fed Ed control freak allies and corporate donors.

The reign of Obama ushered in massive cronyism, corporate favoritism and Boomtown boondoggles galore. We've lived too long already under the boot of arrogant D.C. bureaucrats who've exploited their power to serve their friends.
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More: http://townhall.com/columnists/mich...mber-of-commerces-waterboy-n1932835/page/full

 

[erowe1]

When does the Chamber of Commerce water boy ever fail to get the GOP nomination though?

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

When does the Chamber of Commerce water boy ever fail to get the GOP nomination though?

Therein lies the rub.

 

[Spikender]

Malkin on point with this.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Well, I hate to break it to Jeb Inc. There's no popular groundswell for Bush Part III. None, zip, nada. Independents, progressives and conservatives are all weary of the entrenched bipartisan dynasties that rule Washington and ruin America. Only in the hallowed bubble of D.C. and New York City elites does a Jeb Bush presidential bid make any sense.

Jeb's indulgent (and ultimately doomed) enterprise has three privileged constituencies: Big Business, Big Government and Big Media. ... The "Reasonable Republican," anointed and enabled by the statist Big Three, serves as a useful tool for bashing conservatives and marginalizing conservatism.

I'm not seeing how any of this means that "Jeb's ... enterprise" is "ultimately doomed."
Quite the contrary, in fact - it seems like a good reason to anticipate the opposite ...
After all, when has the Establishment scum ever failed to rise to the top?

IOW: "All hail King Bush the Third!" ...

 

[Peace&Freedom]

I'm not seeing how any of this means that "Jeb's ... enterprise" is "ultimately doomed."
Quite the contrary, in fact - it seems like a good reason to anticipate the opposite ...
After all, when has the Establishment scum ever failed to rise to the top?

IOW: "All hail King Bush the Third!" ...

Indeed, it is the tradition of the Bush family of waterboys to always 'fail upwards.' GHW Bush lost two bids for the Senate in the '70's, and was defeated in the 1980 GOP primaries, yet wound up Vice President anyway (as the elite demanded he be on the ticket despite his failures). McCain was beating GW Bush in the early 2000 primaries, only to see the party donors flock to---BUSH, while all McCain could do was look utterly perplexed.

Jeb lost his first bid for Governor of FL, yet instead of being written off as finished by at least some of the MSM, the robotic talking point made after the election was "we'd like to see Jeb run again." Just WHO were these "we" pushing him, even in defeat? The Chamber of the establishment, of course, and their media surrogates.

 

[Origanalist]

I'm not seeing how any of this means that "Jeb's ... enterprise" is "ultimately doomed."
Quite the contrary, in fact - it seems like a good reason to anticipate the opposite ...
After all, when has the Establishment scum ever failed to rise to the top?

IOW: "All hail King Bush the Third!" ...

All she said about him is true, but I have to agree that it doesn't indicate his candidacy is doomed at all. All recent elections indicate just the opposite.

 

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