This is all theater, bluster, chest-puffing and prancing by the liberals. They know they can't stop these nominees, so this is all they've got. They have to get their punches in where they can. Franken's attacks are an example.
I saw a Fox News interview of the woman who's the president of the national teachers union. You could see the desperation in her tenor and face, trying to explain that DeVos was going to close down the public school system and close the Dept. of Education. What she was really concerned about was losing her power as the union chief.
Many of you on this site are old enough to remember when we were in school in the 50s and 60s and US students ranked number 1 in the world in education skills.
Two things happened after I got out of school in the 60s that have caused our education system to now have students who rank 25th to 35th in the world. A huge drop in rankings.
First, Carter created the Education Department and two, the teacher's unions that favors teachers and administrators over the students in the classroom took over the public school system. Both have been disasters in educating students. The system is not working.
Trump wants to shake things up and DeVos is just the one to do that. Just as the media and the establishment politicians are all up in arms over impending changes that will come with Trump's leadership, the education bureaucracies are quaking in their boots if DeVos is the new "educator" in town.
Very true.