JEB BUSH: WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING

Jeb Bush was the guest on Morning Joe (MSNBC) ostensibly to sell his new book. The performance was as expected; it followed the Republican presidential candidate’s playbook. There was not one thing he said that he really believed.  Restated, he cannot be a Republican and believe what the said. He talked like a Democrat. He is smart, good-looking, and smooth talking, but he is also a person from you would not want to buy a used car. My first observation was that he is smarter than the presidential disaster his brother George W. Bush, the president who wanted to destroy Social Security to save it.

He reminded me of Scott Walker in Wisconsin and McCrory in North Carolina, and many others. They do not say either what they will do or lie about what they will do. I expect as Republicans, Jeb would do the same. For example, in reference to education, he said he wants every child to have an equal opportunity. No one asked him why he supports a schools voucher program, which Republicans designed to take taxpayers money out of public schools and put it into private school— to destroy public education and promote private schools—church schools. Have you ever wondered why Republicans do not believe in evolution? Or, why Republicans gerrymander legislative districts so they can take over the local governments but also school boards, which put a different face on desegregation of schools. Do you understand how there can be poorly funded public schools in all black school district where the taxed property values are low; this is the Republican version, the Jeb Bush version, of the  “modern” United States?

He wants children to have equal opportunity for an education to train them for future jobs. Did any one ask him how that could happen when the universities charge $40,000 to $50,000 yearly tuition? How does he square that with Republican opposition to increase in minimum wage? Two people, a man and a woman, working two jobs at $7.25 hourly with two children, must be lazy if they can not figured out how to send them to college. Especially if they live in a trailer house and work for the government, then it is important that they do not have a public service union; thus, take away their right to bargain. Mitt Romney, who Jeb thought should have been elected president, sent his five sons to college so shouldn’t you. In Jeb’s Republican mind, Romney’s sons and your kids have equal opportunity.

Everyone saw the people in the state capitals of Michigan and Wisconsin shouting “shame, shame, shame” at illegal manipulations by the Republican legislatures they voted into office. They now know that Republican McCrory in North Carolina has cut employee unemployment benefits (hurt 170,000) and refuse government expansion of Medicaid (hurt 500,000). He is in the process of turning over the State’s utilities regulatory commission to Duke-Progress energy, his former employer, who just happen to be asking for a huge rate increase so the company can build new facilities and produce electricity cheaper—please, hold your breath waiting for the cheaper power.

On, on, and on Jeb went this morning talking like a Democrat but everyone should know he would act like a Republican if ever elected. Scott Walker, Pat McCrory, George W. Bush, did so why would Jeb Bush be any different? His is really a “used car” that you do not want if you work for a living.  Joe Scarborough kept nodding his head in agreement, which means either he want you to believe as Jeb does or he is ready to put a down payment on the car.

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