The "Full Ginsburg" is a silly little phrase that refers to instances in which one person appears on all five of the major Sunday morning talk shows -- ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and Fox -- on the same day. As a rule, it's reserved for those commenting on major news events (earthquake in Haiti, H1N1 outbreak, Benghazi attack) or those engaged in national political campaigns.
It was curious, then, to see former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) pull off the feat yesterday -- he actually went further, also talking to Univision yesterday -- for no particular reason. He didn't have any new plans to announce, and he didn't play a direct role in any major news event, but the Republican apparently felt like raising his national media profile, and the Sunday shows were happy to accommodate his wishes.
Of course, it wasn't too difficult to figure out Bush's motivations. The former governor struggled all week to explain his own position on immigration -- ostensibly his signature issue, about which he recently published a book -- and he likely reached out to the Sunday shows to do damage control. After looking rather foolish contradicting himself and flubbing basic policy details, Bush likely hoped to get back on track by blanketing the airwaves.
I'm not convinced it helped. Yesterday, for example, the Florida Republican took his fourth different position on comprehensive immigration reform over the last six days, and his sixth different position since December.
In politics, flip-flops can be problematic, but flip-flop-flip-flop-flip-flops are considerably worse.
Indeed, I have to admit, at this point, I'm still not sure exactly what Jeb Bush's position is on a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already in the United States. I know the former governor published a book last week saying he's against it, and I know he told interviewers yesterday he no longer supports his own position. But as Annie-Rose Strasser noted, on one of the shows, Bush endorsed both positions over the course of a few minutes.
We've all heard the expression about political figures who "aren't ready for prime time," but in Bush's case, it seems he's not quite ready for Sunday mornings, either.
On a less substantive note, the Floridian clearly seems to be positioning himself for a national campaign in the near future -- if Bush weren't thinking about a presidential race, he wouldn't have appeared on six Sunday shows -- and several hosts asked about Americans' willingness to consider yet another Bush for national office.
The Republican seemed unconcerned, arguing, "I don't think there's any Bush baggage at all." On another show he added, "I think history will be kind to George W. Bush."
I'll look forward to Jeb's 2016 slogan: "Vote Bush Again: Third Time's The Charm?"
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I'll look forward to Jeb's 2016 slogan: "Vote Bush Again: Third Time's The Charm?".
Let's take stock.
H.W. couldn't get a second term. W. didn't win his first one.
"Vote Jeb: He already hasn't earned it."
Well, Van, that's one vote for Jeb. While we're at it, let's give Palin a second try. And we could get ourselves entrenched into a couple more expensive "conflicts" that will really seal the doom of our social safety nets and middle class...more human fodder for the military grist mill.
He was awarded the presidency without majority opinion. All very legal, but hardly the definition of "winning".
As for encore performance... wow.
If another Busch gets elected this country will go so far down the toilet that 100 roto rooters could not get it back!
Why wouldn't America vote for Jeb Bush in 2016. Americans LOVE W's policies! By 2016, the United States will have had 16 straight years of them.
Americans have been told they love W's politics. Same as they've been told they hate Obama's politics. Luckily, quite a few Americans appear to have peeked behind the media curtain.
OK, so here's the bit I don't get: Jeb Bush isn't pegged to an imminent or just passed significant news event.
This is a "press tour." It was designed and engineered by Bush's PR people, in other words. Think "Evita" when she goes on her trip (that's such a wonderful song, tho!) Jeb Bush goes on his "Rainbow Tour"-- right?
So my question is, "How is it all the Sunday shows can be so easily played?!"
I mean, is that all it is? A phone call and you get an automatic booking? On five, six shows? Seven? Eight. A PR coup. That's all.
And all the shows sit there, looking duped, played. A joke.
Just flash your Republican membership card, it's everywhere you want to be.
Oh no. Not another President Bush.
It's like having the same groundhog nightmare over again and again
At least in groundhog there wasn't lying to take a nation to war, and there weren't the 1% profiteering off of it all.
And of course Iran and North Korea are idiotically setting themselves up as the next lucrative
contractorconflict areas...They were primed for a Romney/Ryan presidency.Can we get out the money sucking "reconstruction of our destruction" contractors out of Afghan and Iraq first, though, before the next Republican takes the Oval Office?
It is precisely what gives him the best chance of getting the Presidency at any particular point in time.
Low information voters with short memories need to learn about Terry Schiavo.
No, not low information. The fact is, activist right wing enthusiasts gets a diaper-load of information. The problem is that it's all from the same circular source, and it's all twisted, if not out-right non-factual. Senator Ron Johnson participated on one of the Sunday shows this weekend, and his defense of economic nonsense was shocking. Particularly when he had a Nobel price-winning Economist sitting right next to him to explain basic facts.
The proper term is misinformation.
Pity them for being gullible and used. Or be angry with them for defending ignorance; (like Senator Johnson.) But you can't disparage their lack of enthusiasm, however misplaced.
4.2 - So I presume that you support tax breaks for the rich & corporate as your taxes go up, your SS & Medicare get cut and your wages are stagnant. You may not consider that you're a low information voter, but you obviously aren't able to connect the dots.
Van: You blame that "lefty media" for your own guys lack of backbone...
The thankless gop
People like Van took all their money out of the stock market also , after obama was elected , and ended up loseing a fortune , because his kind has been saying obama and the dems are ruining our economy
CBS news featured a man who did just that on the news , he went and invested in gold , and lost a fortune , and was pretty upset , kinda like cashing in on SS and medicare , while complaining about the very people who made it available
Van: Enjoy your "retirement", you earned it. I get a kick out of folks like you who personify greed so eloquently. Here you are enjoying low capital gains rates while you cry and complain... The number of people like you is spiraling downward, yet you pretend your views are viable for regular folks. Only a greedy and selfish person complains about a system that caps SS deductions to the first $110,000.00 of so of income.
Van - Since you obviously seem to have a quite comfortable life-style, you might want to get a better accountant, cause Mittens has shown that a 14% rate is possible if you have a creative accountant.
Now quit your belly-aching, cause you're still making a lot more than many who only have SS to fall on! Selfish!
Van, what about those who lost their retirements at Enron...or the developers who lost money, the homeowners who lost equity when the housing bubble popped, or those who lost their jobs at the economic downturn, ALL before our current President took office....
But it's never the Republicans, it's never them.
It's not them who had to destroy Clinton for raising the economy and sadly he gave them an excuse. It's not them who work to obstruct Obama because he too is raising the economy, but they're having a tougher time...tried birth certificates, tried pastors, tried Kenya, tried race, tried socialism, tried Sandy (Obama's Katrina), tried Benghazi, meh'd Bin Laden's death, and saddled him with not one but two useless Houses in Congress to keep him from succeeding in turning our economic situation around...
But guess what, your party failed. The Republicans failed. They failed to stop the recovery, slow as it is. They failed to make Obama a one-term president. They failed to find the desired dirt to impeach him. They've failed to stop his accomplishments.
For all your monetary success, it sounds like you are suited to your party, a party that's failed to add any national and altruistic benefit to a country struggling to claim a better future. Congratulations, my friend. Glad you got yours...
As long as they are unable to stop the crazy , any Republican candidate will be forced so far right in the primary as to render themselves unelectable See: Conservative , Extremely , Willard Romney 2012.
and on another note having lived under Jeb Bush as a governor for 8 years I can honestly report that he is a duplicitous lying sack of $hit . He will say anything , anything he thinks he needs to get elected.
Sounds familiar
Next G W will pull a romney and come out against the iraq war , and the zombie
conservativemsm will report it as a fact of history , with out one questionI, too, believe history will be "kind" to GWB. "The poor soul", they will say," He was never up to the task."
The only way history will be kind to W is if he ISN"T hauled in front of the ICC for war crimes.
So it seems like anyone can get on the Sunday morning news shows for no reason at all. Whatever happened to journalistic integrity? Yeah, I couldnt stop laughing either while I wrote that! lol
What other choices do they have? You can report on Reid and the gop shutting down obama and the peoples will with the filibuster , only so many times
Did McCain need a weekend off?
Not everyone, JMC of CT. Try being an authentic liberal armed with Mr. Benen's charts and see which Sunday show would take you on.
No honest debate, no factual basis, no big picture, no "bias" liberal sources, nothing to challenge either their views or their ratings.
Unlike the Maddow show, which invites Republicans on to clarify their positions...if they are able.
I look forward to 2016 and Jeb's opponents logo "Fool me one shame on you, fool me twice your won't fool me again" audio of George W Bush with a picture of the smiling moron next to Jeb.
Not to be picky, but you mis-remembered the quite. It was actually dumber.
"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."
...Or, as Mr T would say..."PITY THE FOOL!"
And life-long conservative voters:
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, blame the left. Fool me three times, blame the left..." Ad nauseum...
The kindest thing History can do for W is forget him.
Roberto, that just shows you are a foolish as GWB is. Unless you are part of the 1%, Obama didn't raise your taxes. The only tax raise you got was the 2% payroll tax expiring, as it was always intended to do. That tax cut was from Obama.
And look how well that turned out. Srsly. Worst. President. Ever.
You can't explain gravity to a Flat Earther. Just can't.
Sweet Jesus, not this Maker & Taker baloney again. I swear, sometimes people have no shame at all.
We also have mental health facilities (and churches) for damaged souls who think that way. Please make use of one or both.
Keep on posting Van, I need a good laugh!
Next Van will complain about the debt , to complete the brainlessness of gop voters
I noticed via newsvine ol' Van has only been with us since March. I do believe they graduated him from troll school before he was quite up to the task.
Makers and Takers? 2012 rhetoric Mr, Van didn't work for Mitt either
Funny,
Those who see others as "takers" are usually dependent on government programs themselves..............................................
The majority of the "takers" are red states.................................
Why do you keep begging us for money?????????????????????????????
He's just building his own, personal Bush baggage.
No way Rand Paul doesn't go after the George W. during Republican debates, just to rattle Jeb. Can we get some enterprising entrepeneur to start hosting and televising these now, please?
That statement alone should disqualify Jeb Bush from the presidency. George Bush lied this country into war. Almost 4,500 US military were killed in Iraq between 2003-2012. There is no accurate count of Iraqi civilians killed, but the number is believed to be more than 100,000. All this happened because Bush lied. His brother will never be able to explain that away.
Oh my! Looks like they're rotating Shooter out and sending Van in off the bench. This should be fun as this is not a fact-free zone the way Fox is, Van!
Jeb is not doing flip flops. The new terminology is "Shaking the Etch-A-Sketch." Every Dem should own an Etch-A-Sketch to wave at Republican politicians.
There are "makers" and "takers" on the left and right Van.
We need to get the money out of politics. Once that's done, we can create a fairer, more progressive tax system, which is what the majority of Americans would support.
When a conservatard uses the saying
The conservatard is saying: "I got mine, f*ck you."
OR
"I want them coloreds to know their place."
Funny: conservatards are too ignorant to know that they are part of Robme's 47% that he speaks so negatively of.
You can't possibly believe the vapid generalities you are spouting, Van. Is that what it takes to keep your ego, lumping millions of people together under one easy label?
I'm a proud liberal, I've worked my whole life, paid all my taxes, and want SS to be there when I get to be 65. Millions of us with opinions differing from yours do not fit your over-simplified pigeon holes.
Your stereotypes peg you as ignorant, having a lot of money buys stuff but it can't buy sense.
Ripvantinkle's post translated: "I am a conservatard troll who is ignorant and selfish.
In other words, instead of sitting around doing meth in your trailer park making your mother who is also your sister turn tricks to support your habit, you should practice what you preach, stop taking those government checks, and make it happen.
And millions of inbred trailer park trash have been "doing it." And therein lies the problem. America doesn't need more conservatards like you.
NeedMore' vantinkle doesn't have any money. he is just another troll who takes money from the government while accusing others of doing the exact same thing he is doing.
Thanks, that answered my question completely.
Sure they are. And the earth is flat.
And you will never be part of the "53%" you carry water for. Never. As a matter of fact you depend on those "entitlement" checks the government sends you every month. You are held in contempt for those you carry water for. And you are too stupid to see it.
btw: 51.1% voted for Obama and 47.2% voted for Robme.
So once again, conservatard, you are wrong.
Better go back to those right wing websites to get another debunked talking point.
And I am sure that YOU are a proud conservatard.
A proud conservatard is a low information voter driven by bigotry and narrowminded simplistic viewpoints. A proud conservatard identifies himself with the 1% when in reality he is what those 1% hate because he is dependent on the government for those monthly checks. Of course a conservatard would stand for backwards, bigoted amerikka because not only is the proud conservative morally bankrupt, but a fiscal wreck as well.
A Bush making a fool of himself in national/international politics? Well surprise, surprise, surprise!
I want to make a campaign contribution to Jeb! Where can I send this large tin of pretzels?
The problem with this FOOL .. (Jeb Bush) is that he figures America still hates Hillary Clinton so much even though she has an 80% aproval rating , That they will elect another Neocon war mongering, Social Security privatizing, Medicare and Medicaid cutting, Immigrant Citizenship Denying (Mitt Romney) Flip Floping BUSH to the white house again in 2016 !
Never mind the Economic Catastrophe that was caused by his brother's George W. Bush policies back in 2008, which brought about this Great Recession !....
Than to elect the first woman in History to become president of the United States!.
Hey Jeb !... Hillary Clinton will CRUSH YOU IN 2016 !... Believe that !...
I'll be laughing all the way to the voting booth in 2016 if the republicans decide it's time to nominate another "Bush"... surrrreeee the Bush name carries no bagage !....Go ahead republicans , nominate "Little Jeb" the baby brother to run for president in 2016...
And then watch as he gets blown out of the water worst than Mitt Romney did!
You will have a better chance, all be it low, if you nominate a Chris Christie...