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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush sure looks like a politician who is not running for office.
Bush offered praise for President Obama and said Republicans should be willing to raise revenue to get the deficit down.
The brother of Obama's predecessor noted that Obama had chosen the head of the Chicago public school system, Arne Duncan, as his education secretary and they had worked to focus more on school children and less on the adults running the schools.
"Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit," Bush said.
"I don't have to play the game of being 100,000 percent against President Obama. I got a long list of things that I think he's done wrong. And I, with civility and respect, I will point those out if I'm asked. But on the things that I think he's done a good job on, I-- I'm not gonna just say, 'no, no,' " Bush said.
Bush also expressed optimism that Republicans and Democrats would come together in the next couple of years to make a "grand bargain".
"Here's what I know to be true. Next year or the year after there's going to have to be a grand bargain. We are on an unsustainable course. It is not possible to continue to do what we are going-- what we're doing today. It's just not possible," Bush said.
Asked about comments to Congress that he would be willing to take a hypothetical $10 in budget cuts for every $1 in higher revenue, Bush said his willingness to take that deal shows that he is no longer seeking office as a Republican.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505267_...eb-bush-offers-light-praise-advice-for-obama/
Bush offered praise for President Obama and said Republicans should be willing to raise revenue to get the deficit down.
The brother of Obama's predecessor noted that Obama had chosen the head of the Chicago public school system, Arne Duncan, as his education secretary and they had worked to focus more on school children and less on the adults running the schools.
"Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit," Bush said.
"I don't have to play the game of being 100,000 percent against President Obama. I got a long list of things that I think he's done wrong. And I, with civility and respect, I will point those out if I'm asked. But on the things that I think he's done a good job on, I-- I'm not gonna just say, 'no, no,' " Bush said.
Bush also expressed optimism that Republicans and Democrats would come together in the next couple of years to make a "grand bargain".
"Here's what I know to be true. Next year or the year after there's going to have to be a grand bargain. We are on an unsustainable course. It is not possible to continue to do what we are going-- what we're doing today. It's just not possible," Bush said.
Asked about comments to Congress that he would be willing to take a hypothetical $10 in budget cuts for every $1 in higher revenue, Bush said his willingness to take that deal shows that he is no longer seeking office as a Republican.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505267_...eb-bush-offers-light-praise-advice-for-obama/
