Regardless of what you might think of the Bush family and their political legacy, Barbara Bush was by all accounts a highly intelligent and decent woman in her personal life. Furthermore, she was horrified by the emergence of Donald Trump in the 2016 election and spoke out ...read more
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (takes deep breath) HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (gulps water, spits out water) HAHAHAHAHAHA! (dies from laughing too hard) (drifts up to Heaven) HAHAHAHAHAHA! (gets sent to Hell because constant laughter annoys God) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA: Jeb is such a huge dipshit that you ...read more
So, former future Republican presidential nominee Jeb Bush crawled out from under a rock to have his knob polished for an hour by MSNBC, and to remind people why he got beaten so badly by Donald Trump and every other Republican in their 147-person field. Among the many stupid ...read more
Spectacular failure of a presidential candidate Jeb Bush has much to despise his own brother for -- the primary being the toxic name he has been burdened with given his elder brother is synonymous with disaster at every level of government. So when Jeb decided to go on the ...read more
It was a mild shock Saturday night when, in the midst of a weak 7.8% fourth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican primary, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush announced he was dropping out of the race for president, mainly because many observers thought he'd hang in there ...read more
It doesn't take much to impress Jeb Bush. On CNN Sunday morning, he was asked about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, which was the direct result of Governor Rick Snyder's appointment of a city manager, and which he was arguably only moved to action on by the stalwart shaming ...read more
Sorry, science, you lose again. According to former Florida Governor and current Republican presidential no-hopeful Jeb Bush, that thing Carly Fiorina swears she saw wriggling on a Planned Parenthood table isn't actually a fetus. That's what he told CNN's Jake Tapper Sunday ...read more
It is hard to know whether to feel sorry for the hapless Jeb Bush, who cannot gain any traction in this presidential campaign whatsoever. Bush is the one mainstream Republican candidate who isn't completely insane, and if successful in the primaries, would pull the party back ...read more
Over the weekend, President Obama announced plans to take executive action on gun policy, and met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch to explore the authorities he might have at his disposal. One such action involves extending background checks to so-called "private sales," ...read more
Merry Christmas, everyone! There's a Jeb Bush clip making the rounds that will help you occupy a few minutes of the Christmas Eve news dead zone, but folks like Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs are burying the lede a little, I think. Yes, he did say the incredibly ...read more
Tonight is the night! CNN is hosting the last Republican primary debate of the year, moderated by Wolf Blitzer, Dana Bash and Hugh Hewitt at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada. As usual, we will have embeddable clips from the main debate, in near real-time. With Donald Trump ...read more
You can add this to the "Shit Jeb Bus Says" file under the subheading "Things I Wish I'd Never Seen in my Head." During his interview with the Las Vegas Review Journal editorial board, Jeb concluded a riff on Donald Trump with this awkward observation about Trump's general ...read more
Republican presidential candidate and leading polling blip Jeb Bush took a bold stand against Donald Trump on Tuesday, telling Chuck Todd that there's no way the runaway frontrunner will be the Republican nominee. It's the same dodge that Bush has used repeatedly to avoid saying ...read more
As Jeb Bush sinks to "margin of error" territory in Republican primary polls, the former Florida governor is finding it harder and harder to keep a straight face about his chances, and so are mainstream media figures. In an interview with This Week's George Stephanopoulos ...read more
When Donald Trump leapfrogged GOP field in polling over the summer, conventional wisdom said it was only a matter of time before his lead gave way to a more seasoned politician. Over the years we've seen Republican primary voters fall hard and fast for political newbies like Ben ...read more
Your Moment of Jeb - Does that answer your question? Also, this happened: https://youtu.be/chANI0UCYBo ...read more
And now, your Moment of Jeb. I love the look of panic in his eyes when Gangel follows up. Yeah, Jeb, that's pretty much the textbook definition of "attacking." Also, just one more pro tip for Jeb. People who actually eat nails before breakfast don't say that about themselves, ...read more
Last night, the public witnessed the death of not only Jeb Bush as a viable candidate for President, but the end of establishment conservatism in America. Bush had been faltering badly in the polls before the debate and needed a game changing performance to turn things around. ...read more
Welcome to our coverage of the third Republican Presidential Debate on CNBC, moderated by Carl Quintanilla of Squawk on the Street, Becky Quick from Squawk Box, and chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood. As before, we will have debate clips in near-real time, posted in ...read more
Like the son of many a powerful man before him, Jeb Bush believed that his name would carry him to riches and success. His father and brother were both Presidents of the United States and Jeb believed it was his turn to take the keys to the kingdom that were rightfully his. ...read more
(Photo: Paul Zoeller/Post & Courier) "I’ve got a lot of really cool things I could do other than sit around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them. That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want that." -- Jeb Bush Poor Jeb. He ...read more
Former Florida Governor and Future Former Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush grossed out the entire extinct population of Krypton this week when he revealed his sweaty hots for Supergirl during a forum with the LIBRE Initiative, a Hispanic economic organization. Asked to ...read more
Jeb Bush has raised a lot of fuss about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's alleged culpability in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that resulted in the deaths of four Americans. Most recently he was on Fox News on Thursday giving a lame explanation as ...read more
After months of being kicked around by Donald Trump, and getting used to the low altitude of the middle of the GOP presidential pack, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is slimming down his presidential campaign. According to Politico, Jeb's staff is being axed like old timber: ...read more
It must be a truly awful time for white evangelical conservatives. Once an ascendant and seemingly unstoppable political force that helped sweep Ronald Reagan and the Bushes into the White House, the Bible-thumpers are finding themselves culturally isolated from an ...read more
Jeb Bush has a Biff problem, as Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has demonstrated time and again, but if you need any more evidence that the former Florida Guv is weaker than day-old Sanka, you'll find it in the recent tale of how Marco Rubio lied (he really didn't). It all ...read more
There are a lot of difficult things about being a Republican, but none so difficult, it would appear, as remembering things they'll never forget. Whether it's forgetting 9/11 or forgetting the other 9/11, or even just forgetting the third thing on your own list of three things, ...read more
Jeb Bush is having a great deal of trouble understanding Hillary Clinton's position on the Keystone Pipeline, illustrating an apparent genetic inability to comprehend the English language. Here was Bush's tweet on Clinton's straightforward answer about her position on the ...read more
According to the New York Times, Jeb Bush is having such a hard time connecting with Republican activists that his campaign has "Begun exploring whether to bring in the person it thinks may be best equipped to give him a boost with skeptical conservatives: his brother George W. ...read more
While Donald Trump has spent the last several months repelling as many non-white, non-male voters as he possibly can, he's done relatively little to piss off black voters, specifically. Don't get me wrong, Trump has a deep catalog to draw from, but his new stuff has mostly been ...read more
Jeb Bush followed up on Donald Trump's assertion that his brother was an incredibly shitty President: This would be akin to something like this: Whoever is running Jeb Bush's social media outreach needs to look for employment elsewhere. And perhaps Jeb Bush would do well ...read more
Now that the Republicans' Sad Trombone Debate is over, it's time for the main event, this time with more Carly Fiorina! All of the candidates in the main debate have telegraphed their desire to take on frontrunner Donald Trump, which means we can expect to see lots of painfully ...read more
If you need any further validation that Bernie Sanders is right about at least one thing, look no further than Jeb Bush. Money in politics is one of the twin pillars of Bernie Sanders' message to voters, and nowhere is that influence more evident than in the continued existence ...read more
Speaking at an event sponsored by Americans for Peace, Prosperity and Security in Davenport, Iowa, Jeb Bush was quoted by The Daily Beastsaying: "I'll tell you, taking out Saddam Hussein turned out to be a pretty good deal." We have to seriously ask whether Jeb Bush is a space ...read more
I was on the Thom Hartmann show last night squaring off with my old friend Hughey Newsome of Project 21, and libertarian Charles Sauer, Economist/President-The Market Institute. After Thom poked fun at me for the #BlackLivesMatter/Daily Banter debacle, we got into it over Jeb ...read more
Despite the immense entertainment value of watching last night's Republican debates, the reality of the sheer idiocy of one half of the country's political establishment is no laughing matter. The fact that a clown like Donald Trump was able to bully and dominate the rest of the ...read more
After cramming 7 minutes of entertainment into 80 minutes of kiddie-table debate Thursday afternoon, the main event is finally here: the first official 2016 Republican presidential candidates' debate. Frontrunner Donald Trump faces off against former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, ...read more
The latest controversy to light up the sky in the political fireworks show that is Donald Trump involves a Trump Organization attorney named Michael Cohen, who responded to a Daily Beast reporter's questions about a decades-old (and mostly-recanted) accusation rape by claiming ...read more
Jeb Bush recently told a forum hosted by the Union Leader newspaper of Manchester, NH that he aimed to generate 4% economic growth when elected in 2016. Despite the country being massively overworked as it is, Bush wants Americans "to be a lot more productive," by working longer ...read more
Over the weekend, businessman and flaming bag of dogcrap on the Republican Party's porch Donald Trump tweeted and deleted an attack on Jeb Bush and his wife, Columba Bush. He quoted a tweet that said "#JebBush has to like the Mexican Illegals because of his wife," and while ...read more
Former TV host and current President of Racist America Donald Trump livened up the Fourth of July weekend when he posted a tweet that took a hard, racist shot at former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) and his wife, Columba Bush. The tweet, which was quickly screen-captured and preserved, ...read more
The 1988 campaign ads featuring furloughed murderer Willie Horton are considered the gold standard of scummy political ads, but that didn't hurt then-Vice President George H.W. Bush at the time. He easily defeated opponent Michael Dukakis to win the presidency in 1988, in spite ...read more
Potential GOP Presidential candidate Jeb Bush thinks climate change is happening, but doesn't know whether it is man made. Likewise, over 40% of Americans think it is a myth made up by liberal scientists. Meanwhile, Pope Francis - the head of the Catholic Church no less - is ...read more
Jeb Bush is the frontrunner for the GOP primaries, and has in recent times positioned himself as a sensible moderate. The truth is that Jeb Bush is neither sensible, or a moderate. While it may be 'centrist' in America to say things like: 'I don’t think the science is clear what ...read more
Here we go again. The GOP's 'serious' candidate for 2016 is hitting the pre-campaign trail pacifying the crazies with what can only be described as outright lies about climate change. Despite the overwhelming evidence and virtually unanimous scientific consensus that climate ...read more
Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush has just finished putting on a spectacular week-long display of stepping on his own dick after setting fire to it, then setting fire to it again and stepping on it some more, over the question of whether the United States should have invaded Iraq in ...read more
It has become almost a parlor game for White House reporters to try and draw the Obama White House into the 2016 presidential campaign, something they rarely indulge in, and usually on their own terms. At Friday's White House daily briefing, Fox News' Kevin Corke took the best ...read more
When you can afford to drop $600 on a watch it is understandable that your understanding of poor people's needs might be a little skewed. But believing a fancy pulse monitor that also holds all your music can replace a health care system that cares for an aging population with ...read more
Let's see if you can spot the difference between these two statements that were made four days apart: I would have [authorized the invasion], and so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody. And so would almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they ...read more
Stuffing as many people into a compressed space as possible is a long, storied and stupid American tradition, from the 1950s phone booth cramming craze to the ever-declining size of airline seats. Today's Republicans are already applying the same principle to their ongoing ...read more