Posted on 01/13/2004 11:43:35 AM PST by AndyObermann
I'd "like" to think this is not another CFR, but who knows. If it is, President Bush will be shown the door in 2004, if not, and it leads to actual new(America first)immigration reforms as well as enforcement of existing law, he deserves our appreciation and support.
It's either a brilliant move or a complete act of idiocy during a time of security\economic concerns.
Not these days.
Do you really think President Bush would support increased federalization of education? Do you really think President Bush would support a huge expansion of the Medicare program? Do you really think President Bush would support a huge Farm Subsidy bill? Do you really think President Bush would support legalization of illegals?
Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
I want Bush to be the President till 2008. BUT I WANT HIM TO KNOW THAT HE NEEDS TO GOVERN AS A CONSERVATIVE TO ENSURE THAT IT HAPPENS!!!
Consider yourself 'beyond the sheeple'.
BTW, this issue is being addressed by the President, but won't be obvious until later.
Children, who used to be in their own schools (the mentally retarded, for example ) don't belonged mainstreamed into " normal " classrooms !
Many states are NOT handling education well at all. Perhaps a nationwide takeover, of schools, would be better, than what we have now and before you decide I don't know what I'm talking about, know that I have two Ed. degrees and taught.
Paying to keep the elderly on tranquilizers and uppers, will be out of military necessity? Getting the Federal Government deeper into education is out of necessity? Funding drugs for AIDS patients in Africa is out of necessity?
Tell me, please, just what the necessity is to have the American taxpayers, rather than Iraqi oil, pay to rebuild Iraq?
And yet, I might be willing to cut the President slack on all of that, if he had shown any interest at all, in his immigration policy, in preserving traditional America. He is either completely unable to understand that who lives in a country determines the nature of the society, or he simply doesn't care! Personally, I have nothing at all against the Mexican people. They are one nation, we are another. Every nation has a personality, as it were. That is determined by the characteristics of its people. And if Bush understands this, he shows no interest in facing the obvious consequences. His policy is right out of the parlor pink theories of the Academic Left during his school days, and I no longer care whether that is because he was converted to their pursuit of an undistinguished, interchangeable humanity, or was intimidated by it.
What he offers, now, is not what they fought for; not the America won at Yorktown, and sanctified by the blood, sweat, toil and tears, of all the decent Americans in every generation since.
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Here is the fallacy in your argument!
If being "liberal" is what it takes to win a stronger majority, there will NEVER be a reason to move the country to the right of center.
GOVERNING TO THE RIGHT OF CENTER is what it will take to win a "stronger majority."
"No child permitted to get ahead" is a better title.
A total severance, of government intervention, in education, would be far worse, than the disgusting mess we are faced with today! Home schooling is also NOT the answer for most. A national standard, which has been talked about for decades, but almost impossible to pull of ( blame the various teachers unions and other LIBERALS ! ), would help greatly. Keeping the mentally retarded and emotionally disturbed out of the mainstream would also work wonders, as would the dissolvement of social promotion, the ever changing ( upping ) of when a child may start school, and the reintroduction of " skipping " the gifted. And that's just for starters!
Yeah, President Bush has plenty of time on his hands and should have developed the education bill, while letting the politicians who are elected to do this particular part of the job sit around.
The way to prove to the world that someone is an idiot, is to shut your mouth, and let them open theirs.
Had President Bush crafted the entire Education Bill, it would have been torn to pieces and voted down. Instead, a bill was passed, and even though we should blame the writer for it's details, we are still blaming President Bush.
He managed to get a bill passed on an important subject, which is a better start than most previous administrations have made.
Maybe the people who put Kennedy in office and keep him there should question him about the Education Bill. YA THINK?
Nominations are not coming into fruition, Rick Santorum has alot to do with partial birth abortion but I will give you that, and tax cuts I will give you, if they last...
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