Dems suck but it is all that keeps us from facism - Jeb Bush

Submitted by DonMidwest on Mon, 03/23/2015 - 9:45am

A friend living in St. Petersburg FL sent me a link to this Politico article on Jeb Bush and the Schaivo affair.

This note is about the article and the fact that Jeb is worse than W Bush and there are too many who would champion his further destruction of the government and the environment.

I had not spent much time on Jeb but he will be out there during the presidential race

The case showed he “will pursue whatever he thinks is right, virtually forever,” said Aubrey Jewett, a political science professor at the University of Central Florida. “It’s a theme of Jeb’s governorship: He really pushed executive power to the limits.”

“If you want to understand Jeb Bush, he’s guided by principle over convenience,” said Dennis Baxley, a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives during Bush’s governorship and still. “He may be wrong about something, but he knows what he believes.”

And what he believed in this case, and what he did, said Miami's Dan Gelber, a Democratic member of the state House during Bush’s governorship, “probably was more defining than I suspect Jeb would like.

Here are some additonal quotations from the article. I added the bold about the KING

Bush couldn’t do anything. Laws didn’t let him. But that didn’t mean he didn’t want to. He did.
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“Authority for the Governor to Issue a One-time Stay …”
Gelber looked up.
“I don’t have to read anymore,” he said. “It’s clearly unconstitutional.”

“The governor can’t just change an order of the court,” Gelber explained this month. “It’s one of the most elemental concepts of democracy: The governor is not a king.”

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The seven state supreme court judges took less than a month to dismiss unanimously “Terri’s Law.”
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The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review it.

“It means that the governor’s interference in this case has ended,” said Felos, Michael Schiavo’s attorney.
“This matter is now at an end for the governor,” said Ken Connor, another one of Bush’s attorneys.

It did not. It was not

The article goes on to describe how Jeb went after her husband after she died and the autopsy showed that her brain was only 1/3 the size of normal and she didn't feel anything.

Glenn Greenwald blasted Politico right from the start. I never go to their web site because I take them to be an inside the beltway rag. But this article from Politico is excellent.

Jeb ‘Put Me Through Hell’
Michael Schiavo knows as well as anyone what Jeb Bush can do with executive power. He thinks you ought to know too.]

In the comments to this article there was a link to a story about Jeb in prep school. What a jerk

http://www.mediaite.com/online/new-jeb-bush-profile-reveals-troubled-yea...

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Submitted by Big Al on Mon, 03/23/2015 - 11:08am

I'll be honest and say that I don't see a

difference between Clinton and Bush. Not relative to the big picture. Clinton is as big a jerk as
Bush, there's no doubt in my mind. Her history of jerkiness actually goes back further than Jeb, but not the
Bush crime family of course. The Bush crime family is what might put Jeb over the top when analyzing
the situation, but I don't think that applies as much now, they are what they are.

There is no lesser evil choice in my opinion. If I had to choose which was could be the greater evil, honestly
I'd pick Clinton. She has a hard heart and she's a creature of the machine. Hell, she was fired from the
Watergate investigation for lying and unethical behavior when she was in her 20's, and she proved her warmonger
mettle beyond a doubt when SOS.

Then there's the matter of her being a war criminal that should be brought to trial, convicted and put in prison
for the rest of her life. She should be disqualified from ever seeking public office again.

We have no choice and that makes me believe we need to boycott the next Presidential election.

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Mon, 03/23/2015 - 12:49pm

I remember this case very well

I have family that lives in the St. Pete area and they are Republicans. Even they thought it was terrible that Jeb Bush tried to meddle in the private decision of Michael Schiavo and the court ruling on this case. This case was a peek into the character of Jeb Bush.

I should remind folks that Jeb Bush is greatly responsible for a lot of what is wrong in Florida and the reason that Rick Scott has been able to get away with so much. Under Jeb, the role of the Governor was strengthened considerably. He also gutted career service protections for a significant number of state employees including any employee that is classified as a professional. By removing the career service protections, it opened up long term professional employees to the whims of the governor as shown with the edict that Dept. of Environmental Protection employees are prohibited from using the words climate change or sea level rise or other similar terms. Immediately upon taking office, Rick Scott fired at least one DEP employee who had been named employee of the year. I believe it was a message to other DEP employees as to how Rick Scott wanted the dept to be run. The lack of career service protections also allowed Rick Scott to do away with the Dept. of Community Affairs which was changed with administering the state wide growth management laws. Nearly all of the several 100 DCA employees were fired.

Jeb Bush began the privatization of many state functions, some of which have been disastrous and nearly all of which have ended up costing the tax payers more than they did in house. Jeb Bush was on the fore front of mandatory testing of school children and tying of school and teacher reviews and funding to test scores.

Jeb has a lot of skeletons in his closet, besides his daughter's drug problems. His wife was caught trying to smuggle about $20,000 worth of undelcared merchandise into the US upon her return from a trip to Europe. She was let off with fine and a slap on the wrist. Jeb himself was long rumored to have been engaged in an affair with Cynthia Henderson whom he had appointed as a dept. head.

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Submitted by Unabashed Liberal on Mon, 03/23/2015 - 11:31pm

Thanks for the diary, Don. It will

be interesting to see how "Bush Versus Clinton Baggage" plays with the American public.

Jeb is totally running as a corporatist neoliberal like FSC--not at all embracing the rhetoric, or the policies, of the Tea Party faction of the Republican Party.

He has very little conservative Republican Base support, at this point, but apparently he doesn't care.

He states in his speeches that he is determined to run a "general election" campaign during the Republican primary.

I'm figuring that 2016 will be deflating and boring for Dems.

(Maybe we'll get lucky, and someone will run a faux contest against FSC. Other than O'Malley and/or Webb, I sorta doubt it.)

At least there will be a few interesting moments (I would think) coming from the Republican side. Surely a few will implode, and that will provide some comic relief.

I think that Rand Paul, Scott Walker, and maybe even Arkansas' Mike Huckabee will stir up quite a bit of populist fervor on the right.

I tend to think that Paul will be FSC's biggest threat from the Republican side--on foreign policy issues, and matters relating to Big Brother surveilling Americans. Especially after the email brouhaha.

I would think that Paul would likely peel off some of the youth vote, and Walker and Huckabee will easily pickup many white conservative Dems (IMO).

But we'll see . . .

Mollie

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