Too bad vaudeville is dead. During the days of vaudeville great acrobatic acts would come onstage and wow the audiences with their amazing physical feats. As of this morning we’ve now seen an amazing politicat feat: a full 360 on immigration for former Gov. Jeb Bush who may insist he hasn’t decided on running for the 2016 Republican Preidential nomination but is making all the moves — including a breathtaking political 360 — to indicate that he is positioning himself, and adjusting his position, and adjusting it some more. If he doesn’t enter the race, he could become a chiropractor.
Talking Points Memo actually has a detailed timeline:
Jeb Bush completed a whirlwind one-week journey on immigration on Sunday, praising a Senate proposal to grant eventual citizenship for undocumented immigrants after attacking the idea in a newly released book he co-authored that was itself a reversal of his past position.
Bush’s experimental turn as a border hawk was so quick you could blink and miss it.
Here’s a quick timeline of how the flip-flop-flip went down.
Go to the link to read it.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.