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Title: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: Balog on May 15, 2014, 12:57:45 PM

http://joemiller.us/2013/02/jeb-bush-i-would-govern-like-lyndon-johnson-as-president/#ixzz31ni4ilkI

I can't wait to hear about the high regard he has for FDR and Wilson. But he'd TOTALLY be better than a Democrat you guys.

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: brimic on May 15, 2014, 01:00:12 PM

Quote from: Balog on May 15, 2014, 12:57:45 PM

http://joemiller.us/2013/02/jeb-bush-i-would-govern-like-lyndon-johnson-as-president/#ixzz31ni4ilkI

I can't wait to hear about the high regard he has for FDR and Wilson. But he'd TOTALLY be better than a Democrat you guys.

I'm betting that if anyone in the Bush family rode the short bus to school, it was Jeb.

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: Balog on May 15, 2014, 01:01:13 PM

Best comment I've seen on this.

Quote

He's going to have a Kennedy shot and increase our involvement in Vietnam?

Bold plan, a little out there... I think I like it!

Title: Re:
Post by: TommyGunn on May 15, 2014, 01:03:46 PM

Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ

Does that mean he'd piss in the Rose Garden and pick his dog up by its ears?  >:D

LBJ was a thug.    [barf]

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: Pb on May 15, 2014, 01:10:47 PM

Maybe he push will massive gun bans too?

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: KD5NRH on May 15, 2014, 02:00:07 PM

Didn't Johnson also leave Air Force One just short of sitting on cinderblocks when he left office too?

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: roo_ster on May 15, 2014, 02:04:07 PM

Quote from: KD5NRH on May 15, 2014, 02:00:07 PM

Didn't Johnson also leave Air Force One just short of sitting on cinderblocks when he left office too?

The day the white trash left the White House.

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: Scout26 on May 15, 2014, 05:41:03 PM

Johnson was moron.  A political hack who pitted one group of advisers against another within the White House and brow beat everyone to get his way, no matter the truth of the matter.

Read Dereliction of Duty by H.R. McMaster  to get a good idea of what working for Johnson was like.  And he was a Stolen Valor kinda guy to.  That Silver Star he received from MacArthur was for being a congressman, since he never saw combat.


from Wikipedia:

Lyndon Johnson said his B26 was also attacked by Japanese fighters but survived, while others, including other members of the flight crew, claim it turned back because of generator trouble before reaching the objective and before encountering enemy aircraft and never came under fire, which is supported by official flight records.[22] Other airplanes that continued to the target did come under fire near the target at about the same time that Johnson's plane was recorded as having landed back at the original airbase. MacArthur awarded Johnson the Silver Star, the military's third-highest medal.

No one else on that aircraft received any medals.  Johnson was merely an observer.

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: Balog on May 15, 2014, 05:46:55 PM

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Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: HankB on May 15, 2014, 05:57:03 PM

Quote from: KD5NRH on May 15, 2014, 02:00:07 PM

Didn't Johnson also leave Air Force One just short of sitting on cinderblocks when he left office too?

Wasn't LBJ the one who had the USPS print up special commemorative stamps in small lots just big enough for HIS stamp collection?

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: RoadKingLarry on May 15, 2014, 10:07:52 PM

Quote from: roo_ster on May 15, 2014, 02:04:07 PM

The day the white trash left the White House.

The first time.

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: Northwoods on May 15, 2014, 10:27:05 PM

Apparently he thought he was endowed well enough to require specially tailored pants, and named the appendage "Jumbo."  And he philandered just as much as JFK, Clinton, and the rest of them.

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: Waitone on May 16, 2014, 08:44:09 AM

There is a story that LBJ bought raw land just across the border in Mexico.  He would frequently travel to the land privately and without secret service protection which is evidently against federal law.  The land was improved by the USAF flying in earth moving equipment.  Seems what he was doing was pretty much an open secret which never made it to the evening news.

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: roo_ster on May 16, 2014, 09:42:35 AM

Quote from: Waitone on May 16, 2014, 08:44:09 AM

There is a story that LBJ bought raw land just across the border in Mexico.  He would frequently travel to the land privately and without secret service protection which is evidently against federal law.  The land was improved by the USAF flying in earth moving equipment.  Seems what he was doing was pretty much an open secret which never made it to the evening news.

Makes sense if you think of most of media now and nearly all media of the time as Democrat/Leftist operatives with bylines.

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on May 16, 2014, 09:47:17 AM

I never heard that one. He did build a lake on the ranch. Big enough for water skiing. And 2 boats one for him one for his ss detail.  And then there were the beauty pageant winners coming to be his secretaries . 


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Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: MechAg94 on May 16, 2014, 10:11:34 AM

Seems to me I have heard there were lots of "stories" of legal/illegal stuff he or his cronies did to get ahead in Texas politics also.  I thought I heard someone mention a story of someone committing suicide in the middle of a farm field via long range rifle shot.  It has been a while.

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: HankB on May 16, 2014, 10:36:44 AM

LBJ saw to it that the lake his family owned acreage on was a "constant level" lake, controlled by dams. This GREATLY increased the value of his family's property.

When LBJ was confronted about being a slumlord, he excused himself by saying "That's my wife's property" . . . in other words, Lady Bird Johnson was the slumlord, HE wasn't.

And there's a persistent story going around - which I haven't been able to absolutely verify - that he got a rule passed locally that required VHF television stations to be at least 7 channels apart; his family had ownership (or at least heavy financial interest in) Channel 7; the rule meant all competing channels were forced into the UHF spectrum, which was especially limiting in the Texas hill country.

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: NickySantoro on May 16, 2014, 12:45:53 PM

Quote from: Balog on May 15, 2014, 12:57:45 PM

http://joemiller.us/2013/02/jeb-bush-i-would-govern-like-lyndon-johnson-as-president/#ixzz31ni4ilkI

I can't wait to hear about the high regard he has for FDR and Wilson. But he'd TOTALLY be better than a Democrat you guys.

He well may be better but so is a dose of the clap. I held my nose in the last two elections and voted for buckets of RINO *expletive deleted*it.  If he is the nominee, I'll vote third party and the RNC can kiss my shiny white behind.

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: roo_ster on May 16, 2014, 01:01:25 PM

Quote from: NickySantoro on May 16, 2014, 12:45:53 PM

He well may be better but so is a dose of the clap. I held my nose in the last two elections and voted for buckets of RINO *expletive deleted*.  If he is the nominee, I'll vote third party and the RNC can kiss my shiny white behind.

UKSIP

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: JN01 on May 16, 2014, 09:32:15 PM

Quote from: sumpnz on May 15, 2014, 10:27:05 PM

Apparently he thought he was endowed well enough to require specially tailored pants, and named the appendage "Jumbo."

Lyndon Big Johnson?

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: Mannlicher on May 18, 2014, 08:33:50 AM

Jeb was decent enough as our Florida Governor, but I'm not so sure I want his RINO butt in charge of America.

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: HankB on May 18, 2014, 10:35:52 AM

Quote from: Mannlicher on May 18, 2014, 08:33:50 AM

Jeb was decent enough as our Florida Governor, but I'm not so sure I want his RINO butt in charge of America.

Don't worry, if he's the GOP nominee he'll be so busy running to the left and attacking Tea Party candidates that Hillary will win in a walk.  :facepalm:

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: Sergeant Bob on May 20, 2014, 10:51:00 AM

Stay out the Bushes![/Jesse Jackson]

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: Ron on May 21, 2014, 04:06:54 PM

So he would govern in his own self interest as a corrupt unprincipled statist without any scruples?

Who is he trying to woo? The bureaucratic class?

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: Balog on May 21, 2014, 04:18:06 PM

Quote from: Ron on May 21, 2014, 04:06:54 PM

So he would govern in his own self interest as a corrupt unprincipled statist without any scruples?

Who is he trying to woo? The bureaucratic class?

People with no knowledge of history.

Title: Re: Jeb Bush would strive to govern like LBJ
Post by: Tallpine on May 21, 2014, 05:18:34 PM

GCA 1968  :mad: