Monday, April 21, 2014

New York Times takes on favored local Jeb! Bush … by gimleteye


Don't ask at EOM how Jeb! is filtering back into public life, after the mess he made of Florida as two-term governor. Jeb's "my way or the highway" allowed for the rapid back-tracking on quality of life issues like growth management and environmental protection. Education? Elections? But he had the wind of GOP tinker-ers like Karl Rove at his back. Even before even 9/11 he had financiers from the Growth Machine lined up to push him forward. (Check our archives for details.)

As to the New York Times article -- calling attention to the considerable wealth accumulation since Jeb! left office -- it is pretty clear that the reporters had a tough time filling in details. Jeb! is ever the boiled talking points kind of operation.


Too bad the Times failed to include the bit about Florida being the buyer of last resort for Lehman Brothers' crap debt instruments just before the firm's spectacular flame-out, just before Jeb! left office and signed on to the Lehman payroll. And what, exactly, did Jeb do for Lehman? And what does Jeb! do for Barclay's worth $1 million per year? Really?

Then there is R. Allen Stanford … The New York Times: get to Stanford about Jeb! quick. There's gold in them thar hills ...

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

The republican party has no one fit to lead this country. He left this state in an awful state and crippled a whole generation of Florida's kids with high-stakes testing just so he could make money off the testing.

Anonymous said...

Let's not forget election fraud allegations. Don't get me wrong, I'd like a Republican President, just not Jeb.

Anonymous said...

and not one who is a TEA bagger!

Anonymous said...

Hate the game, not the player...player!

Lyin in the bushes said...

JEB is a crook period. Besides the Lehman billion dollar donation. He also gave ONE BILLION Dollars from Florida to Enron right before it went under. Then he had his cronies go after the Florida Retirement system saying it was too much, insolvent, and losing money when he is the one that made it that way.The man is scum............

Anonymous said...

Some posters here have absolutely no idea what they're saying!

Associating JEB with the Tea Party is so way off base that it just gives a black eye to the blog.

JEB is a centrist. He supports immigration reform - and for that the Tea Party has disowned him. He supports Common Core - and for that the Tea Party is ready to hang him!

Anonymous said...

The Tea party is crazy and Jeb is crazy and a crook!

Anonymous said...

re Tea Party comment, I think the operative word was "and." I don't think anyone considers him to be off the right side of the cliff.