Thread: COVERING HIS WORTHLESS RINO BUTT - Jeb Bush defends ‘act of love’

Politico
By MAGGIE HABERMAN
April 11, 2014

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.”

Jeb Bush defends ‘act of love’

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

“To be young and dynamic again we have to be young and dynamic again,” Bush said, adding that people need to view “immigration reform not as a problem, but as a huge opportunity.”

“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?”


http://www.politico.com/story/2014/0...on-105612.html

“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.”

Perhaps worthy but illegal, progressives continue to come up with the same tired statements, everyone who has a different opinion is racist, only they have compassion, what crap. Bush never worked in his life nor has on hand experience in the illegal communities, if he was really interested he may want to come down along the southern border and spend 6 months, only then would I listen to his bleeding heart cries of "I want to be President like my father and brother". Enough GOP pick someone with common sense.

The Bush Legacy ..

Republican Party 2004 Campaign [targeted at Hispanics]



(make sure you rewind this to the start, it has a tendency to begin in the middle)

George W. Bush on Immigration

by Tony Lee 11 Apr 2014, 5:09 PM PD
breitbart.com



Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush defended his characterization of illegal immigration as an "act of love" on Thursday, but he also refrained from using those words again in his speech.

"This past weekend, I made some statements about immigration reform [that] generated a little more news than I anticipated," Bush said at a Connecticut GOP event, according to news reports. "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... 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."

Bush also said, according to reports, that keeping illegal immigrants "in the shadows" was not an American thing to do.

In an interview with Fox News's Shannon Bream on Sunday from his father's presidential library in College Station, TX, Bush also said that Americans should not get "riled up" about illegal immigration.

As Breitbart News has reported, though the Republican establishment is clamoring for Bush to try to become the third Bush to occupy the White House, a national Washington Post-ABC News poll found that a majority of Americans would not even consider voting for him.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...-Same-Rhetoric

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Earth to Jeb Bush

Exclusive: Joseph Farah whomps 'gilded prince' over comments about illegal immigration

Published: 16 hours ago

It’s infuriating to listen to Jeb Bush talk 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.

• The idea that a great country should politely ask those in the country illegally to leave is puzzling to me. The Internal Revenue Service doesn’t politely ask me to pay my taxes. If I break the law as a U.S. citizen, the government doesn’t politely ask me to stop or give me a chance to make amends. Why does Jeb Bush think illegal aliens should be treated better than U.S. citizens?
• It doesn’t “rile people up” that destitute, hard-working, good people from other countries want to come to the United States. That’s what Jeb Bush thinks about people like you and me – that we’re just mean and xenophobic. We understand that people act in their own best interests. We’re not angry at the illegal aliens who come to America for a better life. We’re angry at our government for all but inviting them here with an engraved invitation and for not maintaining the most important definition of a nation-state – secure borders.On the basis of this kind of thoughtless, demeaning claptrap, Jeb Bush is wholly unfit to be president of the United States. We need another Bush like we need a hole in the head. We don’t need a dynasty of dilettantes. We don’t need a royal priesthood in America. And we don’t need another scion of the establishment lecturing ordinary Americans not born with silver spoons in their mouths about morality and the difficulty of providing for their families. Experience more of Joseph Farah’s no-nonsense truth-telling in his books, audio and video products, featured in the WND Superstore
  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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Jeb is Worthless, Mr. Irrelevant... the man flip flops like a fish out of water; depending whom he is speaking too

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