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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush talks with media after his tour of Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011.
By Karoun Demirjian (contact) 
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 | 2:31 p.m.
Harry Reid
Sun coverage
Political America has been in a bit of an uproar over former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s assertion in his new book that immigration reform need not include a pathway to citizenship.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid added his voice to the surprised chorus Tuesday, suggesting that Bush, once a leading voice in the Republican party for immigration reform, is embarrassingly irrelevant to the ongoing national conversation on the subject.
“His opinion on immigration is not evolving, it’s devolving. He keeps going backwards,” Reid said Tuesday afternoon. “I think he’s, frankly, made a fool of himself in the last 24 hours.”
Bush’s sentiments about citizenship for immigrants was an apparent backpedal for a figure who was seen as one of the most moderate voices in the Republican party on immigration.
Reid used to praise Bush for his input. But on Tuesday, he turned that praise instead to Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, the outspoken immigration advocate of whose specific positions Reid has previously been sharply critical.
More recently, however, Rubio joined a group of bipartisan senators drafting an immigration bill, in the process endorsing the idea that certain undocumented immigrants deserve a pathway to citizenship.
“Frankly, on this issue, I don’t think Jeb Bush is a Florida leader; I think Marco Rubio is,” Reid said.
Senators are expected to unveil their draft immigration bill later this month.
2016 has already begun, we are doomed....
"Reid: Jeb Bush has 'made a fool of himself' on immigration issue"
While Reid makes a fool of himself on a daily basis on any given subject.
Congress hasn't a clue one way or another.
It would be virtually impossible to make more of a fool of oneself than Harry Reid has done repeatedly. He is an embarrassment.
His complaint about Jeb Bush is because he sees him as a threat in the next election.
If Jeb Bush has made a fool of himself, he will have lots of company, beginning with Reid saying Nevada does not have large numbers of illegal immigrants in the workforce. (Pew Research estimated that illegal immigrants made up almost 25% of the construction trades at one point, the highest in the nation.)
I think that after the damage that Bush II did to this country, only a moron would consider a Bush III candidacy!
Well if anyone would know what Fool looks like,
it would be Reid! He see's one in the mirror
every morning!!
While saying that Jeb Bush "made a fool of himself" on this issue might be a bit dramatic, I am disappointed that he has regressed to the party line. I considered him one of the few Republicans moderate enough for me to consider voting for in 2016.
Reid is a joke. I am sad to say that Jeb screwed up in this matter. I have no idea what Bush was thinking.
Which only goes to show that there are no bigger fools than the voters in Nevada.
If Reid said Bush is a fool i would take it as a compliment. Do people forget how Dingy Harry won the last election? It was all the so called Immigrants that were working for his campaign getting out the votes (whether Legal or Illegal) BTW how does Harry get to be such a multi millionaire on a Gov salary? Isn't America wonderful?
Reid may be a joke, but the fools in this state keep electing him... So who is more the fool??
Harry Reid called Hugo Chavez a great world leader...yeah...really.
YES!!!
Harry Reid, right again!
And NO, there will never be another Bush in the
White House again.
We're not stupid.
BCDave.......
Chavez called Bush the Devil.
And Harry Reid called George Bush a liar.
Some commenters regard Reid as a fool and lament that we keep electing him. When they send out Sharron Angle as an alternative who's the real fool in this debate?
Chavez called Bush the devil.
Reid calls Chavez a great world leader.
Teamster likes that very much.
"When they send out Sharron Angle as an alternative who's the real fool in this debate?"
The people in this state because you're not given any good choices for representation. Reid and Angle are the worst of the worst. Neither one is worthy of that position.
Harry is absolutely right on this one.
See
Education
Lost in translation: Cuts target non-English-speaking parents of special-needs children.
Typical Tea/Republican Party line of thought regarding immigration...they absolutely refuse to allow them to be citizens...because they believe all the way down to their rotten paranoid souls that once they become an American, they will vote against them. Tea/Republicans love to deflect and make it look like they are acting tough and fighting against immigration and any issue regarding it, but the actual truth is they are fighting....demographics. This great nation is changing and....THEY DON'T LIKE IT.
Anyways, I don't pay attention to the subject of this article. Nor anything he says. I don't care how many books he's written.
I'm pretty sure most Americans have totally rejected this guy too.
Mainly, because there is an informal policy set in stone.
We learned our lesson. And this guy ain't any different. Even though he acts like he has something new and marvelous and astounding that will baffle all of American for all time. In other words, it's nothing but political hoo-eee.
So, therefore, NIDWAMBIP* Policy remains in effect.
But, go ahead, conservatives. You want another Romney, that's on you. Means you didn't learn from the last election.
* Stands for "No, I Don't Want Any More Bushes In Power."
Reid is great he just keeps exposing the crooked Republicans and making Nevada proud. During Nov. 2012 the Republican Party exposed itself for what it really is, a tool for special interest groups with the biggest hand outs to for sale right wingers who tell the people who pay their salaries and benefits they are doing what is best for them,by protecting the very wealthy,special interests,and vowing to end programs that are paid for by the people who benefit from them, Social Security and Medicare.A Republican is somebody who wants someone else to pay his taxes and like it.
@chazbean: I wonder if you even paid attention to the last election. Reid won re-election because his opponent was a raving nutbag, not because of anything dealing with immigration.
More low-skilled. third world immigration is desperately needed. Sen Reid's re-election depends on it!
This opinion is just the tip of the philisophical ice berg for Jeb Bush.
A few years back, Jeb Bush, James Carville and others in a presentation at the Judy Bayley Theater which was narrated by Jon Ralston, made the most incredible comment when he was talking about retirement accounts:
"privatized funds are desirable because they can be defaulted" [sic].
Privatized retirement funds would make millions for a few fund managers which is why the GOP is trying so diligently to eliminate Social Security and channel trillions in funds to private organizations. Should the fund become insolvent, the managers will keep their bonuses, commissions and past salaries and not responsible for the retirement payments. No doubt, the Cayman Islands will experience highly positive cash flow at the same time.
Jeb Bush is looking to take this Country into a time before the Great Depression after all that has been learned from history. I'm not surprised that his position on immigration isn't very different and like Romney, switches back and forth according to the most immediate political winds.
Jeb Bush has had his privileged life handed to him because of his name, not the quality of his character.
The only time that Harry Reid makes a fool of himself is when his lips move.
I am especially proud of Harry's foolishness when he, with a straight face looked at his MSNBC fellow true believer (Larry O'Donnell) and said, "Social Security does not add a single penny, not a dime, a nickel, a dollar to the budget problems we have. Never has and for the next 30 years it won't do that."
How is that for ballsy?
Git 'em, Harry! Don't let them Bush boys steal YOUR thunder!!!
SunJon how about we look at some of what the Democrats said a few years back. If you'd like I can post many. Or does your train of thought only look at what the Republicans say and not the Democrats?
How about this one. "We have to pass it to see whats in it." Nancy Pelosi...or
Or how about Reids assertion that there aren't that many hispanics working in Nevada. Of course the number is somewhere around 25%.
Or how about the president saying that only taxes that will go up is on the rich. I don't know mine went up 2% and I'm a long way from rich.
It appears that "clueless" George's little brother, Jeb Bush, has thrown his hat into the presidential ring...
Why else would he come out against undocumented workers having a path to citizenship?
The reason, of course, is that Jeb knows what McCain & Romney knew or figured out early in their run for the White House.....one can not become the Republican presidential nominee with the support of the nutty Tea Party?
The last sentence should read:
"one can not become the Republican presidential nominee with out the support of the nutty Tea Party?"
Boy, the best attributes of the original gene pool sure get thinned out! Are you sure that picture isn't a baby Karl Rove?