Laura Ingraham's analysis of yet another Bush betrayal

News Max ^ | 6/4/02 | Laura Ingraham

[Ol' Sparky]

The Bush Administration's Foul Ball

Laura Ingraham

Tuesday, June 4, 2002

Feminists and other gender victims nationwide are doing a victory dance. Last week the Bush administration inexplicably turned its back on good sense by supporting the current interpretation of a federal law that has perversely resulted in reverse discrimination of male athletes from coast to coast.

Since its passage 30 years ago, the law known as Title IX, which bars discrimination against girls and young women in U.S. schools and colleges, has been twisted by America's anti-boy left-wing activists.

With the laudable goal of assuring equal opportunities for girls in school, the law has required the elimination of hundreds of boys' athletic programs. Colleges and universities have been forced to cut men's wrestling, golf, swimming, track and other sports in order to comply with Title IX's "proportional representation" regulations. Failure to comply could mean the loss of federal funds.

Last week the Bush administration urged a federal court to reject the lawsuit of the National Wrestling Coaches Association against the Department of Education (which originally wrote the offending regulations). The coaches' suit contends that U.S. rules are illegal, encourage gender quotas, and "mandate the very discrimination that Title IX prohibits." The Bush Justice Department raised procedural objections to the suit (statute of limitations, federal government immunity from suit) and didn't reach the substance of the plaintiffs' case.

President Bush, however, should remember his own words from the campaign trail when he signaled support for the wresting teams. The gender-crats who have distorted the true meaning of Title IX for a radical p.c. agenda should be exposed. The White House should be sending this clear message: We support ensuring girls' sports opportunities, encouraging girls' (and boys') physical fitness, but we will not countenance reverse discrimination.

President Bush should order his Department of Education to rewrite the old regulations that have forced the axing of existing men's sports teams. And if presidential adviser Karl Rove is worried about losing the support of soccer moms out there – he should remember that soccer moms have boys too.

[Ol' Sparky]

Yet, another betrayal By George Jefferson Blythe Bush...

[LarryM]

Bush seems to implement one major betrayal each day, yet somehow expects his electoral base to go out and vote for him.

[UB355]

Laura Ingraham another McCain supporter lashes out. There was a piece on this on tonight's Special Report. I didn't pay a whole lot of attention, but will watch the rerun later. I't didn't have the tone of Laura's alarm

[ThePythonicCow]

We must be careful not to let Bush's actions be misrepresented to us by the lame-stream media, and we also must be careful not to let entrenched liberals in the administration sabotage Bush by setting him up to be blamed by such betrayals of conservative positions.

Even today, it seems possible that Rush was mislead by a New York Times article, presenting the environmental paper sent to the United Nations as a complete collapse on the issue of whether there is global warming, and whether it is caused by humans. Someone else posted on FR that the paper really said something more like "there might be a little warming over the last century, for what causes, human or otherwise, is not clear."

I don't know the truth of this here report on Education funding and Title IX, but would withhold judgement until I did, knowing the extent to which liberal biased administrators, educators and media could be coloring the events anti-Bush.

[newzjunkey]

Better yet, get the Dept of Education (education at all levels, really) out of athletics altogether. Free up millions which go just to cover team insurance and facilities into the classroom so these jocks (and those who couldn't make the cut) can read and do math!

"Athletics" programs are just another money grab (tax dollars and student fees) by a few. Communities of neighbors can and have organized sports teams and leagues at many levels. If you're in it for health or a love of the game, that ought to be more than sufficient.

Too much of professional athletics is supported in the form of corporate welfare (some of the worst offenses are here in San Diego). It's time these addicts, steroid abusers and thugs find real employment, real skills. Cripes, they can't even play clean!

[Huck]

Wasn't Laura Ingraham a clerk for Clarence Thomas? If so, it would certainly qualify her to speak on this subject.

[shuckmaster]

I'm in favor of football in the winter, baseball in the summer, and automobile racing when you grow up.

[ex-snook]

Is Brutus Laura on the neocon shill list?

[ex-snook]

Kristol was also Quale's chief. Neo-cons worm their way in everywhere.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Laura Ingraham's still working?

Oops..never mind. Just realized this is from News Max.

[Redcloak]

Is Brutus Laura on the neocon shill list?

Must be. That would certainly explain the Bush administration's actions in this Title IX case. It's all the neo-cons' fault.

[Ol' Sparky]

Attack the messenger because she exposes yet another compromise by George Jefferson Blythe Bush?

[ex-snook]

"That would certainly explain the Bush administration's actions in this Title IX case. It's all the neo-cons' fault. "

No one can explain what Bush does but only neo-cons criticize Bush. e.g. So Laura must be a neo-con. I don't think Title IX has anything to do with it. Any excuse will do. The word has gone out to all the neo-con pundits to bash Bush. Even Rushbo has joined the gang-bang.

[Huck]

Can you explain for me what differentiates the current administration from neoconservatism?

[Intolerant in NJ]

Laura Ingraham another McCain supporter lashes out. There was a piece on this on tonight's Special Report. I didn't pay a whole lot of attention, but will watch the rerun later. I't didn't have the tone of Laura's alarm...it didn't have that alarming tone because this "reversal" is not seen as a "betrayal" at Fox...the draconian quota requirements now causing so many problems are not a part of the original law, but rather of regulations for implementation written by Clinton's Education Department - the Bush people do not want to dignify these regulations and have them perhaps made permanent by some possibly Clinton-appointed judge, so they want the case to stay out of the courts - probably so eventually they will be able to rewrite the regulations themselves - as Ingraham herself suggests at the end of her article.......

[hauerf]

New campaign slogan:

Support Bush/Gore (or Gore/Bush, either way is the same) in 2004!

[dalebert]

It wouldn't hurt a thing if the media took the time to get its facts straight. If Ingraham is upset with Bush.....well, you can't please all of the people all the time. Considering the problems Bush has faced since the beginning of his presidency and the fact that we have an election comming up I am not surprised at anything I read.

[Jewels1091]

I watcvhed a program this morning on this very subject, and this is NOT what Bush is doing. He is trying to solve the problem with regulations without going through the courts. A lady that is helping him on this very topic talked about what they were doing. please get all the facts BEFORE you start throwing bombs at someone.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Although what you say is quite cute and clever, it's not true.

Every show Laura Ingraham's had has been cancelled; so naturally I assumed she got the hint and went home.

And, I don't consider "News Max" a credible news source.

[glory]

You know this is a great idea and opens the door then for homeschoolers to be a part of athletics(particularly a problem at high school level where the choices for competative sports get limited since the high schools have a monopoly on some of the "big games") I love the way our youth athletics work in this burg I live in and it would be refreshing to see them carry that to the high school level as well and eliminate the high school teams. Would do a bit of good to keep neighborhoods cohesive too instead of being split by two high schools.