Comments on: 58 Senators Vote Against Poor D.C. Kids

By: mom2oneson

mom2oneson — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:58:52 +0000

why republicans are for mandatory attendance laws and gov funded schools and republicans also want the gov to fund private schools.

I’ve seen two first ladies have a “reading” campaign but to my knowledge neither one called the educational system out on it’s goal to produce a illiterate adults and they didn’t provide an accurate solution. Children do not learn to read by listeng to their parents read. They do not learn to read by having books in the home. Those things are usually present but they are not the factors that make them learn how to read.

I wish I could write better because every time I see some type of bogus “we need more money or we need earlier education for literacy” article, I want to write a letter!

By: avgamerican

avgamerican — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:41:10 +0000

I believe I read once that at some time around the turn of the century 1900, those against our system of representative democracy feared that its prosperity would stomp out the marxist elitist systems. To stop it a grand scheme was plotted to infiltrate our education system. Liberalism really means power and control. It pertains to ignore the natural prospertiy effects of Judeo-Christian democracy in exchange for secular humanistic controlled totalitarianist socialistic systems. In short, if given the choice enough of us would choose a loving God and His promises over evil and it’s control. This is one reason why marxism praised atheism as it’s state religion. Here is a big clue for the overly arrogant educated narcissists. Our founding fathers were not atheists. They believed in representative democracy. Karl Marx and Lenin were atheists and founded totalitarian socialism. Liberalism is simply another name for marxism. It has been the dominat belief system in our education system for decades and it is now assuming power in our country, and it will destroy us unless stopped.

By: Praying

Praying — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:03:30 +0000

the Dems HAD to kill all the amendments (and the appropriations committee went along with them) because Harry Reid promised queen Botox – er Nancy Pelosi that the bill would be passed exactly as it came out of the House. She didn’t want it to have to come back to the house for another vote (I guess she was worried more of her members constituents would have had time to write them and tell them to vote against it?). So it’s pretty much politics as usual – the politicians win, the American people lose. I am getting very tired of this. I want TERM LIMITS!!

By: maddog

maddog — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:20:26 +0000

Is Arlen trying to lose the primary? Seriously. It’s as if he’s provoking a backlash. He has to understand that poking us in the eye so closely together is bound to hurt, Sure he’s done that in the past, but he eased up on In election years in a cynical and phony attempt to placate enough of us conservatives. Besides this is the kind of bill where opposing it should not upset his lefty allies to much (not nearly as much as voting against card check will)

Run Pat, run

By: pilgrim

pilgrim — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:51:05 +0000

I’m not saying that excuses her for her vote. I’m just saying that her along with six other Republican members of this committee had an interest in getting the omnibus bill passed with no amendments to go back to the House. There were six Republican members of the appropriatiions committee who voted against final passage. I haven’t a clue to explain Crapo’s vote.
http://appropriations.senate.gov/members.cfm

By: Rod_Patrick

Rod_Patrick — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:09:34 +0000

Dems. Who knows?

By: Elizabeth Christian

Elizabeth Christian — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:22:54 +0000

n/t

By: JLenardDetroit

JLenardDetroit — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:21:03 +0000

They will approve endless Billions for Education that never ever improves the Education Kids get…. but never ONE DIME for Parents to have a say/control in using to get better education for their kids…. School Administrations are a joke, recycled failed teachers that cover for each other and work to drive up one another’s salaries….

By: bobojake

bobojake — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:07:52 +0000

Every one of these Senators should have their shoe strings tied together and then have a 50 yard race to get their purple kool-aid.
When Senators votes are controlled by thugs we are in big trouble. Not one of them has any shame or consciences left. God pity our poor children.

By: Rapunzel46

Rapunzel46 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:41:57 +0000

Mike Crapo and, Lisa Murkowski??????? Snow and Specter don’t surprise me, but more and more Murkowski is voting democratic.

By: icbm

icbm — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:07:26 +0000

voting for such a bill? Is he actually a liberal Republican, or did he get bought off with pork?

By: tankertodd

tankertodd — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:58:32 +0000

They also don’t care about helping each American have an equal shot at success.

Pigs.

By: red4ever

red4ever — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:46:23 +0000

Oh heavens no, let’s leave them in failing schools where they have to pass through metal detectors to get to class and the police are arresting students on a regular basis. Nope, can’t have that.

Why?

Because we have to fund scholarships for foreign kids:
http://chronicle.com/news/article/6092/clinton-announces-million-dollar-scholarship-program-for-palestinian-students

By: Carol Tarasewicz

Carol Tarasewicz — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:42:09 +0000

I wish the people in those states would remember this when it is time to reelect these clowns. None will, Once the dems are in office, it is as if it’s for life, that’s how it is here in MA,.

I am not in Barney Frank’s district. But he was reelected with almost 70% of the vote and he had two opponents. You do not know how hard it is for a congressman or senator from here to have any opponent, never mind two. Tonight I had Bill O’Reilly on and someone from Investor’s Business Daily said Barney should be in jail. I get those daily but hadn’t read that one from the 6th yet.

I sometimes spend too much time here on Red State. I had to share Saturday’s email about the San Francisco mayor with a few friends, where do you find these things? I was laughing out loud when I read that one.

By: stanpulle

stanpulle — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:41:18 +0000

Rides the backs of the poor to power. Over one-third of public school teachers send their kids to private school- no different than what the Clintonistas, the Obamots, and the Jesse Jacksons do. Let the poor eat the crap that our public school system dishes out. The Durbins, Feinsteins and Boxers of this world need to be horse-whipped and dragged through main street with a scarlet letter “H” for hypocrite and liar strung around their necks.

By: anotherindyfilmguy

anotherindyfilmguy — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:20:24 +0000

Fiscal responsibility has to start somewhere, even if it is veiled racism on the left etc… they wouldn’t want those kids to stand in the way of the pork going to their districts now would they?

It’s not like Congress really wanted to break the US economy and all that… I guess everything has limits and a program that actually does something, well that’s just to much to expect when we’re talking about raping the rest of the country to serve those supportive special interests back home in with the congresscritters in their pockets etc…

Hypocrites…

By: The Political Class

The Political Class — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:11:28 +0000

…of the kids voted.