June 01, 2015 10:47 AM UTC

Keep Digging, Jeb Bush

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• by: Colorado Pols

Likely 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush ran into trouble last month when he proudly told America that he would have authorized the invasion of Iraq–just like his brother George W. Bush did in 2003. This didn’t go over well with the majority of the voting public, which is overall pretty certain that the invasion of Iraq was, in retrospect, a very bad thing. A week later, Bush meekly retracted his prior comments, and said he would not have gone into Iraq after all.

Safe to say, this was not a great moment for the Bush Dynasty.

But as Raw Story’s Eric Dolan reports, Jeb was on Face the Nation yesterday, where he finally was able to put last month’s enormous foreign policy blunder behind him.

With a new foreign policy blunder!

During an interview that aired on Sunday, CBS News host Bob Schieffer asked Bush if he felt like overcoming George W. Bush’s legacy was his “main challenge” in running for president.

“No, I don’t,” the potential candidate insisted. “This is hard for me, to be honest with you. I have to do the Heisman on my brother that I love, you know? This is not something I’m comfortable doing. But I’m my own person. I have my own life experience, and I will be successful if I’m a candidate when I share my heart and I talk about what I’ve done as governor of the state, where I cut taxes, reduced the state government workforce by 11 percent, moved the state to a AAA bond rating.”

“As I tell that story, people will begin to say, ‘Yeah, look, he’s a Bush, that’s fine, but I’m for him because he has ideas that will help me rise up,’” he continued. “So, my brother is not going to be a problem at all. I seek out his advice. I love him dearly. I’ve learned from his successes and his mistakes.”

Schieffer pressed Bush to detail what he had learned from his brother.

“Well, the successes clearly are protecting the homeland,” the former Florida governor opined. [Pols emphasis]

Under a certain very careful reading of recent American history, we guess you might be able to make the claim that President George W. Bush “protected the homeland” during his term. Of course, it’s necessary to note somewhere in there that Dubya was President on the morning of September 11, 2001, and was President for enough time before that terrorist attack–the worst terrorist attack in American history, mind you–that Dubya’s legacy of “protecting the homeland” has a rather big exception. Which obviously Jeb is making without, you know, saying so!

Overall, excluding the 9/11 attacks, the subsequent 2001 anthrax attacks, the failure to apprehend 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, the radicalization of millions of Muslims into the next generation of anti-American jihadists by invading the wrong country, not to mention imprisoning innocent people all over the world without trial and torturing them…

You’re right. This is just plain ridiculous.