I have said for some time that neither of the candidates from Florida, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush are the sharpest knives in the kitchen.  Josh Marshall over at TPM takes on Jeb Bush. We’ve Met the Doofus. And He is Jeb.

It goes without saying that it’s probably not good politics to say your plan to move the country forward is that everyone needs to work longer hours. It approaches 47% level toxicity. Even more damning is that it makes zero sense in policy terms. Indeed, Jeb’s ‘work harder’ prescription provides harrowing look at the level of derp that can be produced when you take a guy who isn’t all that bright and push him to the head of the national leadership line without ever having put in an honest day’s work or support himself in his life.

Jeb is indeed at out of touch moron.  Industrial robots l are now doing jobs that people used to do.  There simply are not enough jobs for people who want or need them.   France and other European countries lowered the hourly work work week and retirement   age not  to be good to workers but create job opportunities.

Josh continues:

It’s unclear to me whether Bush doesn’t even fully understand the policies his advisors are trying to explain to him or whether this is just standard patrician work ethic morality. Whichever it is, the real structural problem in our economy is stagnant wages for more than a generation for most of the population. Advances or just keeping up have largely been accomplished by working more hours at the same wages (in real terms). Meanwhile, wealth and income from labor productivity gains have tended to go the very wealthy rather than wage earners. This is all known and discussed to the point of being a cliche. But this is the gist. There’s a decent argument that people working longer hours is the problem; it’s definitely not the solution.

What is fairly obvious is that the Bush gene pool is degrading.