#NoMoreBushes

As he takes steps toward a presidential run, Jeb Bush is resigning from the board of Tenet Healthcare Corp.

The health care company said in a regulatory filing Wednesday that the former Florida governor told Tenet's board of directors that he would step down at the end of the year. Bush has been a director since 2007.

The move comes as Bush explores a presidential run and unwinds some of his business commitments. A Bush spokesman said last week that the potential Republican contender will leave his advisory role with British banking giant Barclays by Dec. 31.

Bush's ties to Tenet, as well as other financial firms, could complicate a potential campaign. The health care giant supported and promoted President Barack Obama's health care law, which remains deeply unpopular among the conservative activists who play an outsized role in presidential primaries.

Bush, however, has been a vocal opponent of the health care measure, calling it "flawed to its core."

In its filing this week, Tenet noted that Bush is "not resigning on account of any disagreement" with the company.

Advisers have long said that Bush would review his business ties should he run for president. Opposition researchers in both parties have already begun sifting through his connections seeking fodder for attack.

According to corporate filings, Bush sits on the boards of three other companies — Rayonier Inc., Empower Software Solutions and CorMatrix Cardiovascular Inc. — and is chairman and manager of Britton Hill Holdings, a Florida-based private equity and business advisory group.

While some strategists have said Bush's private-equity work could open him to some of the same criticisms that dogged the GOP's last presidential nominee, business executive and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Bush himself has said his business record would be an asset in a campaign.

"We're creating jobs. We're expanding business. I'm not ashamed of that at all," Bush said of his private-equity work in a recent interview with ABC's Miami affiliate WPLG-TV. "I think that practical experience is something that might be useful in Washington, D.C., to be honest with you."

Americans Should be Terrified of the Bush Family Dynasty’s Future Aspirations

We’ve already had 12 years of a Bush in the White House. The first was George H.W. Bush, who served one term as president (and tried but failed to win a second term). Then, of course, we had George W. Bush who served from 2001-2009. And I think all of us with any kind of decent memory know what kind of horrific damage his presidency did to this country.

Let’s also not forget that George H.W. Bush was vice president during Reagan’s administration. So if you want to count that, since 1981, we’ve had someone from the Bush family in (or directly associated with) the White House for 20 of the last 33 years.

And you would think that after George W. Bush’s horrific tenure as president, that no other Bush would stand a change in hell at becoming president again. But you’d be wrong.

If all indications I’m seeing are correct, Jeb Bush seems poised for a run at president in 2016. In fact, it’s been my belief all along that Jeb is the son the Bush family really wanted to run for president. It just so happens George managed to get there first.

But Jeb isn’t the only problem. His son, George P. Bush, is another huge issue. Because the Republican party is clearly priming him to run for president one day as well. He’s currently the “up and coming” golden boy in Texas for the GOP. And at 38-years-old, he would be the perfect age of 48 to run in 2024 if his father managed to become president and serve two terms.

Jeb Bush (R-Idiot) Tells Poor People to Stop Mooching

Jeb Bush demonstrated a serious lack of knowledge and understanding about poverty at a fundraiser with some of New York’s wealthiest conservatives.

Jeb Bush demonstrated a serious lack of knowledge and understanding about poverty at a fundraiser with some of New York’s wealthiest conservatives.

Speaking to a crowd of people in black-tie attire, he praised Paul Ryan’s ideas about how to get out of poverty, saying, according to Politico:

“When it comes to the American family, Paul Ryan has it right. A loving family taking care of their children in a traditional marriage will create the chance to break out of poverty far better, far better than any of the government programs that we can create.”

So basically, get married, stay married, and take care of your children, and that’s how you bring your family out of poverty. Then you won’t have to mooch off of the rest of us married-with-children, hardworking Americans. Bush, and Ryan, imply that traditional family values will eliminate poverty here, despite our current dearth of good jobs and quality education in poor areas.

Conservatives like Bush are so out of touch that it’s like they can’t even comprehend that there are real causes of poverty that don’t have anything to do with “traditional family values.” They can’t grasp the fact that generational poverty is an extremely complex problem that’s very difficult to solve. Government programs won’t get the impoverished out of poverty, but they can help while those people try to find their own way out. At the very least, government programs can help ensure that they’re not on the streets.

The American Dream is more of a pipe dream for people mired in generational poverty. It is extremely difficult to escape. A strong support structure is very helpful, yes, but it’s not the only key. In fact, it’s not even the biggest key. Just when it comes to education, Bush supports stronger teacher evaluations and tying funding to whether schools meet certain standards. This is what No Child Left Behind tried to do, and it was a miserable failure.

Tying funding to the overall grade a school receives doesn’t work because the poorer schools have more problems meeting those standards. They often can’t afford new textbooks, building maintenance and upgrades, even new desks, to say nothing of whether they can afford the state-of-the-art computer classrooms that wealthier schools can afford. These schools don’t have the ability to provide a quality education, and then they’re punished further because they don’t meet standards. Sometimes they’re even closed, which pushes poor kids into other schools, overcrowding those schools and bringing those grades down. There’s a bit of a chain reaction.

NCLB was a failure because of that, and because it made teachers teach to tests. They couldn’t get very creative with their teaching. They couldn’t go outside the box the tests created to give their students a richer, fuller education. If Jeb Bush truly understood anything at all about poverty, he’d focus much harder on trying to raise the quality of education in the poorer school districts.

He’d also understand that education is only part of the solution, and he’d be courting sociologists for information on other causes of poverty, and what to do about it. Instead, he’d rather push the typical, rich, white, conservative “traditional family values” tripe that much of the rest of the religious right is pushing.

Bush Makes Ridiculous Accusation Against President Obama Over Vatican Embassy Closure

You know, sometimes I think Republicans just sit in rooms playing a game called, “How can we blame _____ on Obama.”  I truly believe that if President Obama cured cancer, Republicans would say he was trying to kill the cancer treatment industry. 

Jeb Bush becomes the most recent Republican to make a completely absurd accusation.  Bush accused the president of closing the U.S. embassy to the Vatican out of spite due to some Catholics opposing the Affordable Care Act.

Bush Tweeted:

Why would our President close our Embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare.

Yes, Bush more or less accused President Obama of closing one of our embassies to “get revenge” on a few Catholics who don’t support his healthcare law.

Former President George H.W. Bush Serves as Witness to Gay Marriage in Maine

Former President George H.W. Bush served as an official witness at the marriage of Bonnie Clement and Helen Thorgalsen, the owners of a general store in Kennebunk, Maine, close to where the Bush family has a home.
Bush's rep. confirmed the news, which Clement and Thorgalsen posted on their Facebook page, writing: "Getting our marriage license witnessed!"
The WaPo reports:

In an email from their honeymoon in London, Clement told us they’ve known the former first couple for years and were thrilled they accepted the wedding invitation. Thinking about “how monumental this time is in our lives” and “how blessed we are to be in their lives,” they decided to ask them “to really personalize it for us” as witnesses.

“This is such a wonderful time for change in our legal system,” she added. “Who would be best to help us acknowledge the importance of our wedding as our friends and as the former leader of the free world. When they agreed to do so we just felt that it was the next acknowledgment of being ‘real and normal.’”

Clement and Thorgalsen have been together for 12 years.

Bush Library Fountain

OMG Who let her in here?

Well this is one thing we can agree on!

Former FLOTUS Barbara Bush Agrees With America on a Jeb 2016 Run: “We’ve Had Enough Bushes”. 

Omar Rivero
25 April, 2013

Former First Lady Barbara Bush on Thursday doused the presidential ambitions of her son Jeb, just as the former Florida Governor has started exploring a possible run for the White House in 2016.

Continuing her “unBush-like” streak of saying reasonable things that agree with the opinions of the American people at large, Barbara was surprisingly candid in her response when the question of Jeb running for the oval office  came up on NBC’s “Today Show”.

“He’s by far the best qualified man, but no. I really don’t. I think this is a great country. There are a lot of great families, and it’s not just for the families, or whatever. There are other people out there who are very qualified. We’ve had enough Bushes.”, Barbara eagerly stated.

While Jeb was always known as the family achiever, his older brother George bounced around between failed family business ventures financed by friends of his parents. In 1994, political pundits all around the US forecast that Jeb would be elected Gov. Of Florida, while George would lose in Texas to popular Democratic Gov. Ann Richards. Of course, the opposite proved to be the case, as George went on to become governor of Texas and Jeb lost to Florida’s Democratic Gov. Lawton Childs.