Some choice words from Laura Ingraham reacting to Jeb Bush re-affirming that he would re-invade Iraq if he had it to do all over again.
I wanted to flag a point about Jeb Bush’s response about the Iraq War. I don’t think it’s so much a gaffe as a tell that this is something like Kryptonite for Bush’s campaign.
If you watch Bush’s exchange it’s clear he’s trying desperately to nudge the question back from ‘what we know now‘ to ‘what we knew then‘. As well he should. My take on this is actually a little different from David’s. I think ‘based on what we knew then’ is a relatively easy one for Bush or other Republican candidates to answer because you have the ‘out’ of flawed WMD intelligence and the reality – for better or worse – that a majority of Americans remember being in that situation twelve years ago and agreeing with the final decision to invade Iraq. It’s hard to criticize someone saying they would have done something at the time that you did do at the time or at least supported.
We’ve updated our epochal “A (Short) History of Violence: The Post-Acquittal George Zimmerman Timeline.” Your new edition is available here.
Utah is considering final approval of a plan that would dig a 10 foot deep ditch the size of 75 football fields to store depleted uranium which should settle down to an inert lead in a couple billion years.
Here’s your primer on what’s behind the Obama/Elizabeth Warren Feud.
I always try to remind myself not to criticize with stories like the one I’m about to describe, or perhaps better to say, not to forget the core reason for providing a comprehensive national plan to provide health insurance for everyone who needs it. But this story really puts that sentiment to the test, as well as exposing the perverse politics and perceptions on this issue in Republican-run states.
Luis Lang needs an expensive eye operation to save his eyesight. But he can’t afford it, can’t get covered for the procedure and he blames President Obama and his over-complicated ACA legislation.
This looks to be a long, long day for Jeb Bush. A former staffer who is close to Jeb, Republican strategist Ana Navarro, just said that the former Florida governor told her he’d misheard Megyn Kelly’s question about whether he still thought invading Iraq was a good idea with all we know now.
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And here it is.
We’ve now seen Jeb Bush make what many saw as an eye-popping statement yesterday and now seen a former top advisor saying he now claims that he misunderstood the question which prompted that statement. There are some details to work through. Ana Navarro does not currently work for Gov. Bush (at least that’s my understanding), so we don’t know for certain yet whether she is speaking for him in this case or providing the campaign’s position. (This isn’t to doubt her. We just need to hear this from an official representative.) But the upshot is that Jeb Bush’s campaign is looked pretty screwed at the moment. And here’s why.