…then call me an extremist, too.
And extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.
[Update a few minutes later]
Bring it on, Senator. In fact, that’s a job I wouldn’t mind having.
Interestingly, Brownback is one of the few Republicans to have expressed support for the president’s new space plan. Probably because he asked Pete Worden’s advice.
Abolishing the education dept would probably go a long way to removing the educrat control of the school systems that keeps ruining the public school system at ever increasing costs.
The federal government should get totally out of the K-12 schools and at least let them go bakc to state control. That includes all federal funding too.
I don’t know about repealed; I think some laws should be utterly expunged from the record! Office of the “Official Expunger ” perhaps…..aah, but how long would it be before people were expunged? Perhaps repeal is best!
I think they should kill the Dept of Education, BUT send the $$$ saved over the first 2 years back to the tax payers.
Just killing the dept, only moves the money to some other BS federal program.
If you create a new department you’re a genius, but to get rid of it you’re a cuckoo? Why is that?
At least when I get rid of huge chunks of software code the only thing people care about is the result. Does the media care about results? Have they ever noticed that the department of education has not produced any positive results (just the opposite) and costs a boatload of money?
I heard some newscaster trying to ridicule Sharron Angle the other day. I don’t know much about her, but every point he made had me liking her more and more.
Retroactive vetoes and the power to remove government officials would be lovely powers for a new branch of government. Similar to the old Roman censor, though with checks from the other branches added in.
The cost of education in California is now I think the highest, the standard of education in California is now virtually the lowest. This infers a serious lack of competition, no business would survive if selling a product that was both the most expensive and the worst performing.
Just as there are antitrust laws to ensure that no business becomes monopolistic and too big to fail maybe there should also be antitrust laws to ensure that no government department uses its monopoly to stifle competition.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Reid is just taunting Nevada voters like me, knowing that he’s got what it takes to forge enough votes to steal the election.
In 1998, running against John Ensign, Reid actually ran an ad in which a comedienne was insulting Charleton Heston and the NRA. Nevada not being an anti-gun state by any means, that should have hurt him. As it happened, however, the election was all electronic, and, miraculously, the computers in Washoe County–the area Ensign absolutely had to do well in–went on the fritz on election night. Lo and behold, the next day Reid was found to have won by 200 votes.
Reid also has depended on support from the casino industry, which owns both parties and tells the GOP not to put forth serious candidates against Reid. He got the support in this election of Reno Mayor Bob Cashell, a very corrupt casino magnate who uses his office to enhance his own wealth. Cashell actually held a fundraiser for Reid in 2009, and then protested that he wasn’t really supporting Reid, he just was attending the fundraiser to convince Reid to help Reno out. Surprise, surprise: once Angle was nominated, Cashell found, to his shock, that he couldn’t support such an extremist. Cashell once actually called into the Bill Manders talk show to say–in what has to win an award for hypocrisy–that Tea Partiers were hurting the GOP and should go home if they knew what was good for them.
The irony is that in the mostly Communist city of Las Vegas, they have a fairly good mayor, John Goodman, while in Reno, Cashell plays Beria to Reid’s Stalin.
That’s interesting. So basically Obama sealed Reid’s fate with the masterful stroke of one poorly worded sentence. I am most certainly glad we have such a gifted speaker for our President because this is turning out truly to become a Shakespearean play.
The Office of the Repealer is fucking brilliant. We need one of those at the Federal level and in every State. We can start with repealing all the laws that -actively prevent- free markets from functioning.
Just take the $77 billion mentioned in the article, cut it by 1/3, and then distribute it to the individual states according to the size of their populations for use in their school systems-and then tell them they have to use the money wisely (probably a vain hope), because they’ll never get another penny, ever.