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JEB!’s the smart one?

Well…as you all know, the repubs don’t really care about the constitution or the law for that matter unless it can be used to hurt people they don’t like…and, a couple of days ago ole JEB! showed just how much they respect the law when he proposed, if he were elected president, that he would unilaterally cut the pay of members of congress if they didn’t show up to vote on everything that is proposed…now, nevermind that their were over 5400 bills introduced last year and that would make it something like 20 a day they would have to vote on…the big takeaway here is that his little scheme is unconstitutional….the executive branch can’t do anything to the legislative…the founders set it up that way to ensure that power is never concentrated in one branch…and, if ole JEB! could control their pay, you can bet he would use it to punish those who didn’t vote ole JEB!’s way….I am not surprised that this idiot would propose something like this….he was supposed to be the smart one…and I am shuddering to think that ole GW may be the smart one compared to JEB! yow…..

Jeb! is done…

Well…given all the stupidity that is coming out of the repubs these days, I was just flabbergasted when I read of this little nugget from ole Jeb! that he said at a town hall meeting the other day…you know the schtick…and the lies that Medicare is an “entitlement” that needs to be “reformed”…and by reformed the repubs mean eliminated unless their billionaires can make profit from it….well…and here’s the stupid part…he’s talking to retirees and people that are near to retiring…and telling them that one of the most popular and efficient programs that the government does is going to be eliminated and the retirees will be thrown back into the private insurance market. One of the people that was there just blew when he used “entitlement” as the slur that the repubs think it is…the woman retorted “Medicare is not an entitlement…I paid for it and earned it…”  So, I think you can say that ole Jeb! is done…this one is going to be looped throughout the general election campaign if he is the nominee…and I don’t think that is going to happen…good riddance…geez…

JEB! is an idiot….

Well…with the tsunami of stupidity that is coming out of the right these days…the candidates over there are doing their best to out stupid each other…not sure if it’s on purpose or not but this week ole JEB! even managed to mangle the days talking points and it is hilarious. At a speech the other day, JEB! was going on about the proposed new overtime rules that would prevent companies from classifying regular workers as management to avoid having to pay them overtime…and JEB! said that it would be bad for workers since employers would just cut their hours and then they would make less money…hmmm…cut hours that they are not getting paid for? Sounds like a good thing for workers to me since they are not getting paid for them anyway….but not to JEB! he still thinks that employers should be allowed to bully workers and steal from them…that’s the way of American business…at least the way the repubs see business being done…don’t pay your workers what they have worked for…poor business owners…I’m crying crocodile tears for them…geez….

One of the funny things I saw when reading of this was the pundits saying that he must really be trying to appear this stupid…I don’t think he’s trying at all…I think it comes naturally to him…

 

Another Bush…more stupidity…

Well…can a rich guy get any further out of touch with anyone who actually has to work for a living that ole Jeb!? I am so fricking tired of rich people who have never had to work a day in their lives trying to tell us how to better ourselves and get ahead…the other day ole Jeb! came out and said that American workers need to work longer hours and through their productivity gain more income for their families…exactly how do you do that Jeb!?  All of the productivity gains of the past 20 years has gone to the top 1% while wages have been stagnant…how would the worker get a share of those gains, a union perhaps? Nope, that is not how to do it…you’re just supposed to work more hours (never mind that US workers already work more hours than in any industrialized country) and then hope all that productivity trickles down into better wages, or full time jobs…but that’s not what the 1% want…they want temp and part time workers they don’t have to pay benefits to…what’s your policy plan to make that happen Jeb!?  I have had enough of blaming workers for their plight when the blame belongs to people like ole Jeb! and his cronies who have rigged the system and weakened unions to the point that the workers have no power anymore…just go back to your boardrooms and shut the hell up…geez..