Posted on 10/09/2009 12:35:28 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) reached across the aisle to praise President Obama on education reform this morning.
President Obama has angered teachers' unions by supporting merit pay, a policy that would pay teachers based on their students' test scores.
Obama has also called for a longer school year, while teachers' unions have proposed shorter school weeks to prevent layoffs.
"I am very, very encouraged, and excited that the president has taken on a core constituency of his party, which is the teachers union," Bush said on MSNBC's Morning Joe.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I thought the humor threads were petering out. A good one though.
Praise when applicable...
I will believe Barry’s commitment to merit-pay when I see it. If he does follow through...I think it’s a good thing.
This isn’t necessarily praising his initiatives. It comes down to this:
“I am very, very encouraged, and excited that the president has taken on a core constituency of his party, which is the teachers union,”
But the determination is what are the results? Talk is cheap.
So, let’s get this straight.
0 “wins” Nobel “prize”.
It enters public consciousness massively that there is NO reason for this, NO good 0 has done.
HUGE opportunity for 0 to TANK.
And Jeb Bush comes out and is like “0 has done something”.
Yeah I think those conspiracy dudes must have been right. It’s a cabal. OK everyone, it’s time to organize militias.
Wonderful. Jeb Bush-McCain for President. I love those aisle reachers.
"....In the back room afterward, Mr. Axelrod scolded Mr. Obama for not getting Mr. Bush to reach just a little bit farther, so he could get that knife all the way into his back.....Mr. McCain couldn't hide his resentment, that Mr. Bush took the knife that was meant for him...."
Curious, which Leftist propaganda outfit pays your salary? Moveon.org? Act Up? Acorn?
A contender, now, for the Nobel Across-the-aisle-reaching Compassionate-conservative Award. Can’t wait to vote for this man!
Do you see me trash talking Michele Bachmann? Or Jim DeMint? Or J.D. Hayworth? Or Sarah Steelman? Or Marco Rubio?
Or do you just have a problem with my bashing of RINOs like Charlie Crist, Lindsay Graham, Juan McCain, Rudy Giuliani, and Myth Romney?
Curious, which Leftist propaganda outfit pays your salary? Moveon.org? Act Up? Acorn?
A salary? Haha. LOL.
I don't have a DU, HuffPo, or Kos account.
I don't work for MoveOn.org, La Raza, George Soros, or ACORN, unlike Juan McCain and his lap dog.
I'm a disgruntled libertarian conservative and former Republican who is now unaffiliated with any party.
I agree with Jeb.
For those of you who thought it might be a great idea to have ANOTHER Bush in the WH....
Am I comparing Obama to these people??? YES I AM.
Whatever one good thing these degenerates might have done, doesn't even begin to deserve mention because of all the despicable things they have done. Obama is INDEED on that level. He is EVIL. He HATES America. He is destroying our country. Taking away our freedom. Stealing the inheritance of our children. Changing our way of life.
What do I admire about Hitler? The same thing I admire about Obama....NOTHING.
“Let me ask you, what positive thing has Obama done so far?”
Let me answer by first listing all the NEGATIVE things he has done so far...how long is this show?
Not a chance of that happening. Dems and Independents would never vote for another Bush, and many Republicans wouldn't, either. Jeb is toast as a presidential candidate. Thank goodness.
There is not enough merit pay in the soros accounts in the world to improve education in State controlled schools.
And longer school years? You mean more time for propaganda indoctrination?
No way. Jeb is just as irrelevant on mis-education as his dubya was on expanding the feds control over drug coverage in health care and the all the other fuzzy wuzzy wobblie stuff with Dems he did while in office.
So explain to me this. See this from a dozen or so Freepers. Never have anything to say or post but "hate the GOP" commentary on every thread.
What do you Democrats in everything but name think you accomplish spending 100% of your time shooting your own side in the back?
Sure there are problems in the GOP but you people want to throw out all the good solid ones, the Joe Wilson-Demint-Coburn-Pence-Bourn Conservatives over the side with the Rinos. Are you just this clueless that you don't realize all you are doing with these pr blasts is helping Dems?
or are you like the McCainbots where during the Bush years?
Figure if you trash talk the GOP 24-7 somehow your chosen candidate will be the only untarnished one left standing in 2012?
Don't be a sucker!
You can believe this when BO pushes as hard for merit pay as he has for Socialized Medicine. Until then, it's all lip-service.
BO is all talk, all the time.
The president is good at education. Even if only to serve as a warning to others.
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