The Liberal Republican --Bush

Jeb Bush accepts reality, rejects VP Salon.com 6/1/12 1:22 PM Politics All Salon Jeb Bush Comments Last summer, in one of the first Republican presidential debates, every single candidate on the stage said they would turn down a hypothetical deal with Democrats to cut $10 dollars in government spending for just $1 in tax increases. Today, former Florida governor Jeb Bush broke with his party’s anti-tax theology when he told House Republicans that he would happily take that deal. “If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we’re going to have $10 in spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement -- put me in, coach,” Bush told the House Budget Committee, chaired by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. And in perhaps an even greater conservative sacrilege, Bush told the committee that he has repeatedly rejected signing Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge. Virtually every Republican in the country running for everything from president to state representative has signed Norquist’s pledge, which holds lawmakers to a hardline anti-tax policy that doesn’t even allow for the expiration of corporate subsidies, like those for ethanol production. Continue Reading...