Question: how can you tell when the “pragmatic” wing of your party is actively working against you? Well, I can’t say definitively, but when they’re appearing at a re-election fundraiser in a swing state for a socialist many of their like profess won’t be beaten in 2012 — and by juxtaposition, actively working against the real reform being pushed in Wisconsin and elsewhere (Obama, after all, himself unleashed the professional union “protesters” on Madison) — that’s a pretty good indication.
Time to face it, folks: many in the GOP hate what you stand for just as much as the left does. They’d prefer to keep big government, so long as they occasionally get their turn at controlling the trough.
It is my desire that the Establicans be driven into the wilderness, or converted to the Democrats they’ve proven themselves to be. I’d really like to see the latter happen, if only because it might give Dem voters something to vote for that wasn’t pure socialism.
This country would be a lot better off if the Dems routinely nominated someone like Christie, and Obama and Nader perennially ran neck-and-neck at around 3% of the vote.
People like Jeb are a shameful waste of the the letter “R”. At least everyone knows what the O stands for in education reform– reforming minds into socialist automatons who can chant slogans on command while eschewing, meat, automobiles and electricity until every person of color has at least $1.23 in his/her pocket pried from the dead hands of the evil Koch-suckers.
Good lord, is J. Bush that thick to believe that it was magical Fed money that improved the school and not
Riddle me this, has education improved or deteriorated since teachers were allowed to unionize 40 years ago?
Riddle me this, has education improved or deteriorated since teachers were allowed to unionize 40 years ago?
Unions per seare only part of the problem. The bigger problem I think is the agendas of the people running those unions, the GOs and NGOs that surround Big Education like blowflies on a rotting carcass. People like Diane Schneider.
Kids these days. They can’t think coherently or make change without the help of technology. But when it comes to getting their debauch on in the grand Byzantine style, they are jaded beyond their years.
Let me recommend the film Waiting For Superman again. Spend a buck at your local RedBox appliance. You will gasp at even this relatively superficial treatment of just what we’ve done to our own children and to ourselves.
Unionized government schooling is akin to jail for kids. It is without question one of the very most harmful and despicable notions in the country, one whose draping in leftist sanctimony and sheer bullshit intentionalism shields it from criticism as the nation-ruining force it is.
We are beyond screwed. We are deluded at the mass level. Thank God we only have, as yet, a passive aggressive approach to our new religion of State. We’re but one national evangelistic fascist in a high place away from the end of the Republic and in a very ugly fashion. The framework is already there and the sacred cows aligned: The sanctity of virtual federal education, a federal medicine dispensary, an approved academy, approved speech, and now, communists like Moore doing bong after bong to come to the blinding realization that positive rights happen and must be redirected by a unique State morality.
I find it hard to believe McCain’s campaign remarks on Obama’s being “a good man” regarded this fact, but who knows. Relatively speaking, he may have had a point.
Let me recommend the film Waiting For Superman again. S
The movie that didn’t even get an Oscar nod? Come on
But at least we can all agree that by warehousing our children in State-sponsored daycare/indoctrination centers for twelve or more years, we have established our moral right to 15% of their earnings in perpetuity. Because we promised ourselves that we’d get their money, and a promise is a promise!
From Chicago radio this morning:
That later bit about there being 6 Reps who don’t like the bill? Pure bullshit. If that was true, they’d stay gone and wait for three of them to cave. The exact opposite is going to happen.
Update: Walker just said on the radio (Charlie Sykes show) that he wouldn’t go meet with Mark Miller as he requested this morning.
[…] or on anything else? No indeed, but we can trust them to do what it takes to stay in power. As Jeff puts it, “Time to face it, folks: many in the GOP hate what you stand for just as much as the left […]
This seems to fit this thread.