Posted on 02/03/2017 4:41:01 AM PST by abb
What? Collins can’t persuade Graham or McCain to vote against DeVos?
No ... he's totally in the pocket of Big Labor, among other things. He's an 0bamorrhoid democRAT. Has a lot of people fooled, though.
You apparently missed all the talk of Manchin announcing last week that he is voting against her.
No. I didn’t miss it. But Manchin has been known to change his vote. More than once. And he is under pressure. From all sides...
But publicly, they say they feel the nominee deserves an up or down vote on the floor of the Senate even if they are going to vote against the nominee.
The political price to pay is high. The pubs would be wiped out in Congress since the public does not understand.
Even though huge amounts of money are spent on education, the public never, ever, ever thinks it is enough.
I remember reading in the paper several years ago that they took a poll and almost 100% of the respondents did not think enough money was spent on schools. After they responded, the person taking the poll informed the respondent how much money is spent on schools, total, per student, etc. etc. They asked the same question to the same person and it went down to 50/50 thinking that not enough money was spent on schools.
If Trump wants to close the department, they will need to educate the country first as to the expense and how the department has hurt education before they do anything, but it will be a hard sell.
Understood. I did not know that. That is something that may make both sides angry. He must live a horrible life going through that in a lot of votes.
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