"I think it’s appropriate to recognize the climate is changing and invest in the proper research to find solutions over the long haul, but not be alarmist about it," Bush said. "Not say 'end is near,' not de-industrialize the country, not create barriers for higher growth, not just totally obliterate family budgets."
Bush addressed climate as part of an interview Wednesday with the New Hampshire Union Leader. "Ultimately," he said, "there's going to be a person in a garage somewhere that's going to come up with a disruptive technology that's going to solve these problems and I think markets need to be respected in this regard."
Okay somebody remind me, why did we think Jeb was the smart brother again?
I think he is acknowledging that they have climate scientist held hostage in garages somewhere - and eventually they will be free to save the planet.
ReplyDeleteSadly, you may be right.
Deletedude's a bad cartoon character ..
ReplyDeleteStraight out of Walt Kelly's Pogo.
Delete"Okay somebody remind me, why did we think Jeb was the smart brother again?"
ReplyDeleteBecause Duh-bya was so stunningly, demonstrably, inconceivably stupid that it seemed that anyone more mobile than pond scum would be smarter.
Guess again.
I suppose maybe , one brother may not be quite as dumb as the other.
DeleteNot convinced any of the brothers,Larry (george) Daryl (jeb)and his other brother Daryl (Neil), possess any real intelligence.
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Ever hear of their other brother Marvin?? Strange connection to WTC. Google him for a giggle.
DeleteWait, what the fu*k he just said?
ReplyDeleteCompared to his other brothers, he IS the smart one in a very shallow gene pool. Google Marvin ad Neal Bush. Hope to God they never decide to jump on this family bandwagon of the presidency being their birthright. Jeb! is as dumb as W.
ReplyDeleteJebro is a putz.
ReplyDeleteWe simply thought that as stupid/vapid gwb (sic) was, there was no way someone could be more stupid.
ReplyDeleteI guess we are finding out there is no bottom in that abyss of idiocy.
Just like $arah and her MiniMe, Bar$tool.
Can this man ever be photographed not looking like the ID-10-T he is? Of course he can't, because he is one.
ReplyDeleteEvery photo of him makes him look dumber than the one before. I didn't think anyone could match W and his idiotic expressions but Jeb! is surpassing him. The one of him making finger "horns" is just unbelievable. This is someone who thinks he should be president? He is so juvenile. And--he is so stupid as to actually say that President Obama, SS Clinton and SS Kerry use too big words.
DeleteBushes have used up their share of any respect that they receive. Actually they should give some respect back to all of us. But they seem not to respect anything but money and priviledge.
I can't stand any of them. Wish they would all get on one of their yachts and sail off the edge of the world.
His whole attitude is -- What? Me Worry? I'm rich. Fuck the rest of you losers.
ReplyDeleteI don't think he even WANTS to be President...nominate HIM, GOP!
DeleteOnce again the republicans outdo The Onion.
ReplyDeleteHe is staggeringly stupid. By the way Jeb!, it's crazy evangelicals that run around screaming "the end is near!" You know, all of your rapture bullshit? Own it, Jebbie, it's yours.
Great point!
DeleteThe fact that this scion of wealth and privilege is now neck-and-neck with Donald Trump, a scion of a different sort, tells us all we need to know about the GOP.
ReplyDeleteMoney, education, environment do not automatically create intelligent or compassionate people. The odds are just as great that, like the Koch brothers, the opposite is true.
Both Bush and Trump are racing to get as many uneducated, resentful, tea baggers as they can.
We're a long way from Dwight Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater,
Thomas Dewey, Alf Landon. Even Herbert Hoover, not a great president, was an intellect, a force, a great man in many ways.
Didnt Shrub promise that climate change would be solved by prayer and/or magic, also too?
ReplyDeleteWhen you have no good Neil,and hard drinking,Christian soldier,invade and torture the World to get your way,lying,idiotic W as competition for the "smart one" label of the family spawn,it's easy to figure out.When the competition for brainiac child involves a slug,a shrub and a buffoon,it is not much of a race to the finish...
ReplyDeleteDidn't anyone ever teach you to put spaces in between punctuation marks? It's nearly impossible to read what you write, so your point is lost with the lack of proper spacing. Why don't you put spaces where they belong? Are you ignorant of this, or are you just lazy?
DeleteI hope for some guy in his garage because the people with bibles in their hands praying aren't getting anything done.
ReplyDeleteYeah, didn't work so well for Perry's drought either..who can forget his three day prayer-athon in Houston with every millionaire preacher there was to be had.
DeleteIf he gets any farther along in this primary race, the stories about his financial dealings will (should) bury him.
ReplyDeleteBut, then, Donald Trump is as sleazy and corrupt a businessman as there is.
There hasn't been a garage in either family for a long time.
We need to elect someone who actually knows how change develops, knows who thinks up innovation, and what it is we need to focus on changing. These guys "have theirs" and they don't give a damn about the rest of the country or the planet.
It doesn't matter who ends up leader of the pack. I found it hard to believe the GOP could do worse than Rmoney or McCain but they did. Every clown in the car is such a loser I find it hard to believe the GOP is seriously considering any of them for the ticket.
DeleteWell, Babs owns these dumb ignorant "boys" A neighbor said there was not a single book in their house when they grew up. Babs was the social buttefly, and GHW was "busy" with Jennifer Fitzgerald. A 10 year affair, plus one night stands in between. She travelled everywhere with him, sharing rooms. James Baker threatened to quit, if he did not start listening to his advisors, rather than Jemnnifer.Georgie just wrote his father's life story. He called the marriage to Babs "a love story" Guess he never investigated all the rumors about his father's dalliances. It was common knowledge in DC. Ah, yes "family values" republican style. Lie your ass off then get irritated when someone points out the truth.
ReplyDeleteI bet little George had no idea...he barely knew his right foot from his left, and was probably shuttled off to private boarding school at an early age too.
DeleteIt will have to be solved by a person in a garage the way the US is cutting research funding. Or it will be solved by a well financed team in China or Europe.
ReplyDeleteSeriously. My husband works in the renewable energy field with some of the greatest scientific minds in the world. There are great people in this country working to get us off the oil/coal treadmill, but it takes a lot of funding and right now there aren't many corporations willing to put the money into research without most of the cash coming from government grants.
DeleteCertainly not presidential material!
ReplyDeleteAnd, why are the Republicans pushing Jeb as the next POTUS? He looks goofy and appears to have less as to brain power than his brother. Plus, he sure favors his mother in appearance!
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump or Jeb Bush? Boy oh boy! Are the Republicans in a pickle!
I'm sure old Reince is just thrilled at his lineup of 'billionaire stars.' He's probably writing that debate questions already:
DeleteGovernor Bush:
Do you think immigrants should be banned from America? Are we 'full?'
Mr. Trump, sir, did Hillary Clinton lie about Benghazi?
Mr. Santorum, what is your feeling about Planned Parenthood clinics being closed, now that we're seeing states with more access to contraceptives reporting fewer abortions?
Senator Graham: (they had to let him in at tthe last minute because he wouldn't stop crying)
How would you deal with Iran, now that the President has agreed to a nuclear deal with them?
Governor Perry: Can you tell us the prescription in your eyeglasses? Can you see without them? Do you have vision coverage with your insurance?
Dr. Carson: What is your feeling about confederate flags and the right of people to fly them in Southern states?
Governor Walker: Can you seriously continue this campaign while you're under indictment in Wisconsin? Tell us how you would help workers in the country the way you have helped them in your state.
Governor Jindal: Is your state prepared to deal with the next hurricane? Are you able to manage without the federal government's interference?
9:55: GHWB's affairs have been rumored for years. I have a friend whose cousin was Secret Service assigned to GHWB when he was president and swore that the rumors were true.
ReplyDeleteMany skeletons in the Bush closets.
With all their multiple mansions, they had a lot of closets to fill.
DeleteTell all!
DeleteI agree with everyone else commenting here AND I actually agree that a techno breakthrough will be a key factor in getting us out of the climate mess. All the other things matter too -- like going toward alternative energy. And I don't mean the sci-fi ideas like putting up artificial clouds to cool the earth, or developing other ways to mitigate extreme climate effects. It will prob be something else -- something that makes the big difference. Just like the thing that will solve the acrimonious pro-choice/anti-choice issues will be the invention of a totally effective, inexpensive, and private means of birth control that is easily accessible (i.e., access not controlled). Then the issue will once again become the personal, private matter that it has been since the beginning of time.
ReplyDeleteNo matter how climate change might be solved, when many people lose their lives due to climate issues, is IS appropriate "to be alarmist about it."
ReplyDeleteYea, this from the supposed 'smarter Bush.' What a joke. Folks, don't be fooled: a Jeb Bush presidency is just another George W. Bush presidency. This country cannot afford that.
ReplyDeleteO/T: seems like Trump went to a venue that could hold 4200 people. The organizers gave away for free 7000 tickets (which were scalped by some...), and then Trump inflated the whole thing and claimed there were 20,000 people at his rally... Cramming 20,000 people into a space that can only hold 4,200 people... Yeah, right!
ReplyDeleteJust HOW STUPID does he think we are? He is making some serious contention to our resident Troll here on IM...
I think he was trying to claim a bigger crowd than Bernie's. Period. Trump always has to be bigger, better, and richer than anyone else. Wanna bet he does not file his financial papers anytime soon?
DeleteActually, he's right. It's called solar power. He, the Republican party and their carbon-fuel industry overseers have done an effective job in slowing its widespread mplementation.
ReplyDeleteAnd so, if Jeb!s hand slipped while shaving and he slashed an artery, I guess he wouldn't bother trying to stop the bloodloss, he'd just have faith that some guy in a garage would save him.
ReplyDeleteBecause why do something if you can do nothing and hope it solves itself instead?
Moran.
"Okay somebody remind me, why did we think Jeb was the smart brother again?"
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Because we had years of experience with Dubya for comparison?
Admittedly, it is a low, low bar.
dum dum
ReplyDeleteJeb reminds me of the kid that bags my groceries at the full service food store. However, at least that kid is gainfully employed. Jeb is just so "special."
ReplyDeleteWell, the NH Union Leader reporter would never ask a hard question of a GOP candidate; it is an extraordinarily conservative newspaper. Just a knowing grin and maybe a wink at Jeb's "humorous" take on the planet's future.
ReplyDeleteMany years ago, I had to go through copies of the Union Leader and the Boston Globe on a daily basis as part of my job. A little like a newspaper clipping service of old. Thank God for the Boston Globe! It helped keep me rational over a period of many months. Today the experience would be the equivalent of having to read Sarah Pallin's Facebook rants or listen to her recorded ones over and over again.
Beaglemom
No problem! Those guys will spend time in their garages in between working three jobs. Oh, but those guys don't even have garages any more. And they can't afford all the high tech equipment necessary to figure out how to solve the problem of climate change.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, the scientists at NCAR are working tirelessly to do just that with their dwindling resources. Maybe they should have a bake sale.
The End of the 2016 Election Is Closer Than You Think
ReplyDelete...In every game there are decisive moments that determine the ultimate outcome. We like to think that presidential elections are dramatic fall campaigns pitting party against party, but the truth is that the most decisive moments often occur long before the general election kicks off. If history is any guide, the outcome of next year’s presidential campaign will likely be determined before the Republican Party has even selected their nominee. That uncomfortable fact means that the longer and more divisive the Republican primary, the less likely the party will be to win back the White House in 2016.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/the-end-of-the-2016-election-is-closer-than-you-think-119947.html
This reminds me of a mathematical cartoon with two professors in front of a chalk board of mathematical formulas and one is point to a spot and says "And a miracle happens here."
ReplyDeleteThat's Jeb's solution. A miracle. Because Steve Jobs is dead and he didn't do climate.
Besides. If the right wing nutjobs don't believe scientists, what makes Jeb think anyone will pay attention to some garage tinkerer. He would have done better to suggest the solution will be found on Shark Tank.
"..there's going to be a person in a garage somewhere that's going to come up with a disruptive technology that's going to solve these problems and I think markets need to be respected in this regard." Ya but the oil industry owns the government, so it will never see the light of day (so to speak).
ReplyDeleteJeb may want to consider purchasing a bra.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking that he's on his way to be as chubby as Christie.
DeleteBeaglemom
Jeb Exclamation Point brings new meaning to "Bushisms". What I think he's trying to convey, but I'm not giving him credit here, is that someone innovative, smart and saavy as Steve Jobs, Wozniak, Bill Gates, and Hewlett Packard computers were smart enough to invent something that changed the world for the better in their garages when they were young and not making much money, nor had access to seed money or loans from daddy or mummsie.
ReplyDelete"A person in a garage" just doesn't cut it, Jeb Exclamation Point. You could put, say Sarah or Jeb in a garage, and neither could figure their way out without help or calling 411 to get the number for 911, then making the call.
This isn't your father's GOP, folks. It's a crapshoot any way you look at it. Not the brightest bulb in the tool shed, eh???