Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Jeb Bush Clash in Heated Budget Committee Hearing
- Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:28pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush does not make it up to Capitol Hill as frequently as other family members. Based on his reception Friday, the popular former governor may not return soon.
Bush was invited by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan to speak on the House Republican budget and removing barriers to free enterprise. At the hearing, the potential Vice Presidential candidate testified on a wide range of issues, and was met with a list of aggressive questions from another powerful Sunshine State politician, DNC Chairwomen; Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Mediaite reports that Wasserman Schultz spent four minutes grilling Bush for his decision as governor to use tax dollars to lure the private research institute Scripps to Florida, rather than spending more on public education or healthcare. Wasserman Schultz said the deal cost the state more than a million dollars per job created, and said similar policy is double-downed in the “Romney-Ryan budget plan” that benefits large corporations and the wealthiest Americans.
Throughout the questioning, body language from both Floridians suggested neither were thrilled to be in the other’s prescence.
In the midst of the lecture, Ryan asked if Wasserman Schultz would allow Bush to respond. To this, the DNC chairwomen answered “I’m trying,” and then requested seconds added to her time as retribution for Ryan’s interruption. At the end of questioning, Ryan joked “Welcome to the budget committee, Governor Bush.”
Following Wasserman Schultz’s questioning, Bush did not back away from the Scripps decision, clarifying that it was a good idea to spur innovation and was hit by the downturn of the economy. Bush also noted that Wasserman Schultz has often flip-flopped her opinion on the initiative.
“It is a premier not-for-profit research institute that does world-class research. The accountability that you voted for — I’m glad that you voted for it,” Bush said. “You weren’t against it before you were for it, you were for it before you were against it. Now I’m happy that we had your vote.”
After Bush clarified that he had finished his answer at the end of heated back-and-forth, the former Florida governor drew laughs from Republicans when he snickered “It’s a joy to be here.”
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Comments (217)
wvgirl
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:13pmWell, looks like The Gov just showed the old gal “how the cow ate the cabbage”! DWS just got bitch-slapped all the way back to gator land….AND HOW!! Way to go Gov Bush!
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 9:16pmHow did this woman ever get elected? She’s dumber than Maxine Waters, and Shelia Jackson Lee in a stupid contest. In fact, I’m wondering how DWS even go through a basic math class with her ideas on the economy.
DWS is nothing but a megaphone for Obama’s talking points memos.
Report Post »THE MAD TACO
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:24pmFirst off Jeb was one of our worst Govs. One rerason we voted him out! Why is he even debating with Wooseyman the bitchhhhhchhhh? He isn’t in government any longer yet pops up like it is a country club. Prime example as to how the 1% feel they need to make their statements and opinons heard even when they have been fired!
dealer@678
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:24pmGold, Dumber than Maxine and Sheila, Surely you jest
Report Post »FLPAINTBRUSHMAMA
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:36pmTaco, Jeb Bush was NOT voted out of office…..get your facts straight.
Report Post »docgreen
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:12pmTaco
Report Post »If you read the story idiot, he didn’t just show up! He was invited to the meeting!
paperpushermj
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 2:45amShe’s a Cartoon Character playing the role of a politician.
Report Post »nelbert
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 6:26am@THE MAD TACO
You’re none too bright, are you?
Bush is the first Republican governor of Florida to have served two full four-year terms, and due to term limits under state law, Bush was unable to seek a third term as Governor.
That doesn’t exactly sound like being voted out or fired.
By now, anyone using the term “1%” should have their crayons taken away and broken. It‘s a red alert that what’s being said is BS.
Report Post »Republic_of_Texas
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 7:50amDo you mean that Debbie Wasserman Schultz is actually the DNC Chairwoman? I thought she was just the Democrat’s version of a “dumb blond joke” at a time when the rest of the world considers them politically incorrect and in poor taste. Her attempts to frame Obama’s economic programs as being highly successful are quite laughable however.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:15amDebbie Schultz’s mien explains the existence of gay men. Just Wow. there should have been a warning before viewing the pictures.
Report Post »ArmedAndNotDangerous
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:41am@THE MAD TACO:
Report Post »Jeb Bush served two Full Terms – he didn’t get voted out. He beat DEM Lt. Governor Buddy MacKay by over 418,000 votes in 1998. He beat DEM challenger Bill McBride with 56% to 43% in 2002.
Boy oh boy, you really fired him!
Unix
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 10:10amHey Debbie, the weather is here, I wish you were beautiful!
Ms. Talking Points was sure on her game eh? My dog could debate her and win. Liberals have no business sense, just emotional outbursts of lies and hate for the other side, that’s all folks…her drone voice sounds like that of a former man, has she had any surgery in her life? The last was just an observation and question, not commentary.
Report Post »Eaglesnest
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 10:34amTaco could not be more wrong about Jeb Bush if he were at Taco Bell. Bush was one of the more popular governors in our history here in FL, he was never voted out of office and he raised education from 50th in the nation when he took over from a democrap governor to 8th when he left office.
Report Post »2smart
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 1:02pmSupport Karen Herrington to replace the Seahag (Wasserman-Schultz) in the Dist. 23 Florida election. Hopefully she can get her walking papers along with the Empty Suit.
Report Post »judymac10
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 2:41pmshe is a flip flopper like all demoo’s
Report Post »americo
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 3:22pmYES! Now lets hope she gets bitch-slapped and ass-kicked right out of office! This woman makes a person want to regurgitate. She a misled, out of touch liberal with her eyes wide closed! Jerkette!
Report Post »sixtysix
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 6:57pmWhat an embarrassment DWS is to women and to Florida. But, she will not realize she has been shown up for what she is. She is not capable of introspection. I doubt she is capable of any truly intelligent thought. She just reads the script; but, less clearly than Oboma.
Report Post »Nvrat
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 8:17pmI still believe Wasserman-Shultz is a V.D test. We know she is brain dead.
Report Post »GramSam
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 8:41pmAll the liberals are nut jobs, starting with Pelosi. They don’t have to think because no one will challenge their talking points. And they have their poor constituents believing they are working for them. Let us give you more stuff so you will vote for us. The Dems could not win an election honesty.
Report Post »KateEJ
Posted on June 3, 2012 at 9:26amWhat the teachers of the state of Florida NEED to do is take the students to visit the Scripps Institute. FINALLY the state of Florida has a scientific center that children can firstly learn about, and then aspire to become a part of. Students need inspiration, and they will take off!!! They need to know that if they work hard in school there will be EMPLOYMENT for them!! A place where they can apply all their hard work, and make a great living for themselves. People like Wasserman don’t understand what motivates people, not hand outs, INNOVATION and INSPIRATION!! This is American, this is who wer ARE!
Report Post »ericsez
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:12pmdebbie, i am sorry to say, is a *** on a rampage. she is so far out of her league that it is pathetic. think about what moron(s) put her in office and then doubled down by rendering her DNC head. perhaps laminating bloomingdale’s charge cards would be a tad more appropriate…
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:11pmMr. Bush has his record to back him and his intelligence. Debbie is attractive and would not have been given the job if not – but, it is partisan politics as usual; penning one side against the other , leaving dust in the air for the uninformed.
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:22pmBebbie is attractive? Well, if you‘ve never been frog kissin’, then I guess you don‘t know what you’re missin’……
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:34pmSearching, I know a good optomologist. You must have eye problems if you think Debbie is attractive.
OMG 2012
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:38pmYou need to get your eyes and ears checked, immediately!
Report Post »zupwidat
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 9:44pmAttractive? She looks like Dee Snider. I sure wish we didn’t have to feel or hear “the noize” emanating from her horse sized pie hole.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:27pmA demon posessed Dee Snyder
Report Post »Teufel Hunden
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 1:31amAttractive??? What’s your guide dogs name?
Report Post »mrqstixx
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 9:11amKeep searching bro.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:05pmOmg i think i just went deaf,she needs to shut up.Is she married?If she is lets pray this man is just like her,otherwise he is suffering indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:15pmIf she is, Mr. T said it best….I pity the fool….
Report Post »Can’t imagine having to come home to that pig every night.
I’m gonna have nightmares.
rickc34
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 9:31pmWhy do you think men die first? We want to! Just ask scary Debbie the birth control poster child. She is so homely people walk up and give her candy because they think she dressed up for Halloween but to slow to know it is’nt
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 9:40pmThis Deb reminds me so much of annoying children you don’t want around. Always whining and creating discord with all who are around. She makes you want to scream and lock her in a closet.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:39pmcould she be married to her bro sgt. ed from msnbc???????????????
Report Post »19sleep19
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:04pmWhat a dog that “woman is”! Politics aside…just a filthy dog of a human being.
Talking points 100% of the time…aggressive tone, with no intention of having a real discussion…just full of hate.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 9:36pmPlease! My dog is cuter and smarter than she is. This Schultz gal got the job because she is good at arguing, defaming, lying, misstating the facts, all with blank face. I’m convinced the blank face is her weapon. You can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time, and her little trick of misrepresentation is getting notice. She’s not even a nice person from what I see. She exhumes hatred and it shows all over her, her body language, her facial expressions. Bad news gal.
Report Post »FLPAINTBRUSHMAMA
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:03pmYou have NO class,lady! As a Floridan, I am mortified to have you open your mouth and hear the garbage that spews out.
Report Post »yathink
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 7:03amI too am from Florida. We have got some real work to do here in our beautiful state. Check this out on http://planetinfowars.com Look for the Group Floridians for Florida see ya there.
Report Post »Lftcoaster
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:59pmSchultz, Pelosi, Boxer and Jackson Lee are all in competition for the most ignorant statements made by a female Representative. The male Rep title is still held by Rep Johnson (D Ga) for .
Report Post »TurboCat
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 5:55amI cannot decide which is worse….the Wasserman thing or the Pelosi thing…….they need to be locked in mental ward.
Report Post »Deacon1
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:59pmWow, I didn’t know Dee Snyder got into Politics, but I guess I can understand why. It seems his voice has changed and he now speaks through his nose.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:02pmNow that’s funny. She may be a clone from some old stale DNA left on a bong or a bed sheet after a nasty party;.
Report Post »possom
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:59pmShe’s graduated from dnc chairwoman to class clown. Congrat’s debbie!
Report Post »wboehmer
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:58pmTo the DWS & the dems, government spending is always some kind of “investment.”
My question for DWS: When does the government have to account for all of the years of “investment” with NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT?
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:57pmSnaggletooth schultz – All alinsky all the time. Reads straight off TP2 (TelePrompter 2) wherever she goes.. She is incapable of forming a unique thought of her very own.
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:05pmGee…if I read your comment without reading the article, I would have thought that you were referring to “Washington State’s Own” Patty Murray, another National Embarassment.
Report Post »mingfurecon
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:56pmThis is really a sickness with people like Wasserman. It’s a no holds barred affair with Obama, Holder and the rest of these 60′s rejects. The fact that the president is leading the charge with all of his insidious attacks against his supposed enemies is really astonishing. He is out to destroy the country so that he can rebuild it in his image. The lackeys who support him are only interested in making someone pay, even if they go up in smoke as well.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:56pmA Liberal attacking a Progressive over benefits given to a Democrat Contributor! Next… Pigs will Fly!
Report Post »Wannabee
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:53pmTo all my fellow Florida retirees in her district, please do your duty and remove from office this blight on FLORIDA – Debbie Wasserman Schultz. She is worse than any of the imported fruit flies or canker that affects our crops. Do not feed bad for her. She will be well taken care of with her pension and lifetime health benefits. Elect a rep in congress that really supports Israel instead of one that insists that our President is a true supporter when he states publicly that Isreal should return to 1967 borders and be indefensible against all its re-constituted enemies on all sides..
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:52pmDebbie is a simpleton and has no business being in congress,she’s a progressive without a clue and dear voters of Florida,FIRE THAT MORON.
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:07pmWashington State: take note and do the same for “Mindless” Patty Murray!
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 9:54pmDeb carries the tainted water for the DNC, now patty murry is another story. What a dunce. What’s wrong with you people in Wash. to keep voting such a loser? Get rid of her and get someone with a brain in his/her head for a change. You might be surprised what a good change that would be.
Report Post »football lady
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 8:54amYou are so right! Put Debbie, Murray, and Elizabeth Warren in a bucket and add up their brain power, and you get a very low number.
Report Post »NDPINDNT
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:52pmDragon Lady!
Report Post »ww2daughter
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:50pmThis is a prime example of most of today’s political hacks in DC. Unfortunately, I am in this “dogs” district but I know that she is on the “short list”, and that cannot come soon enough for me.
Report Post »patteel
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:44pmDon’t insult dogs. LOL
Report Post »nighttrainno9
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:45pmSchulz is so ugly in personality and appearance, she should
Report Post »be exiled to an island where she won’t scare children. She is
the epitomy of shakespears “taming of the shrew”.
Skrewedretiree
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:09pmActually, the Taming of the Shrew came out good in the end. Waserman-Schultz is more of an Armegeddon kind of toad.
Report Post »Kathleen3
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:44pmDWS is truly a living example of : You are saying so much I can not hear what you are saying. What an obnoxious, rude, and arrogant woman. Nancy Pelosi must be so proud of her protege.
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:43pmI hate this woman! What word to Bull Maher call Palin? Yeah, I remember and the definition is Debbie Wasserman Shultz.
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:46pmSorry for my typo’s. What word DID he call Palin. But I won’t apologize for spelling DWS name wrong.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 12:24pmForgiven. When we read something that creates passion and we have to make a reply, we make these mistakes, but most of us know what we all mean and just read through it. The spelling police retired.
Report Post »KevINtampa
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:43pm@VOTEBUSHIN2012
You should change your name, ASAP, to:
VOTEBUSHIN2016
Jeb Bush 2016! You really want to piss off the left, give’em 8 more years of Bush! HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Report Post »mlimberg
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:41pmShe makes Nancy Pelosi seem intelligent…..
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:11pmReally? well, maybe….
Report Post »I wonder if DWS and Washington State’s Patty Murray are related. If nothing else, they must be from the shallow end of the same gene pool.
Skrewedretiree
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:13pmAn amoeba would make Nancy Pelosi seem intelligent, but not by much.
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:40pmblabber mouth wonder if her parents are proud of her?maybe the support abortion now?kinda explains why liberals support abortion they hate the filth they’ve created for themselves.just a thought might be wrong……….
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:16pmNah, might be right…..
Report Post »Goldi
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:39pmSorry I can’t watch little debbie (wisconsin is a referdum on obama) Schultz. do you think if Gov Walker wins, they’ll get rid of the cancer on the public?
Report Post »Hoax And Chains
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:32pm“Wasserman Schultz said the deal cost the state more than a million dollars per job created”
Then the moron Schultz must be really peeved at Obama for the trillions he’s spent for no jobs…
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:38pmNo, she is probably mad because the state of Florida did not have to pay tens of millions for the creation of each job, instead of just a million.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:47pmWONDER HOW DebbyWassy spells SO LEND YA??
Thats 500 MILLION Obummer wasted DebbyCakes!!!
She is truly an embarrassment to FLORIDA
Report Post »OMG 2012
CatB
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:50pmYes I heard today .. that Obama’s jobs (temp as they were) were over 4 million a piece.
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