Posted on 01/17/2005 7:34:45 PM PST by Pikamax
Susan Estrogen has been awful quiet since election night, where she went out on a limb and had to eat crow. :)
A Democrat who wants children taught English was too much too bear for the La Raza Left. I'm no fan of Reed Hastings' being the front man behind the 55% Prop. 39 bonds initiative. At the same time, I have to chortle at the way the Dems stick a knife in the back of one their own. You can't make this one up.
Wow, when even Democrats like Estrich are aghast at California Democrat antics, it says something.
I guess the same is showing in CA at the state level.
Even the super-liberal Sac Bee daily has taken to being critical of the democrats.
The party caucus here is way to the Left of most Californians. 60% of the people of this state voted to ban bilingual education. And the Democrat establishment in Sacramento thinks teaching Hispanic kids English is "racist." Wow - good politics!
I have never met a parent(in California)of a child who did not want their child to learn english.
Estrich was truely awful on election night (and the one time I had to turn off some news channel to avoid hearing her blather on in the aftermath), but this piece suggests that she may actually be engaging in the sort of introspection the demonRATs have supposedly been engaging in since the election.
Too little, too late: the rest of her party is running down the same path as the idiots in the CA leglislature she decries.
Hastings was a LIBERAL Democrat. He's no Zell Miller - in fact he's a tax and spend Lefty. The reason he got in trouble was he committed the unforgivable heresy of crossing the bilingual crowd in the Democratic Party. You can't teach kids English, ever.
Its like we're seeing a different Susan Estrich. Some days she's on her meds and writes in sane and clear English. I look upon it as a blessing we can't say the same about her party. Then I'd be terrified.
Could it be that some Democrats are realizing that the Education lobby doesn't give a hoot about educating children, and is actively working to hold them back?
If that's the level of the DIM zealotry out there, you guys have your hands full.
I've got to ask.
If it is a bilingual school and one of the languages being taught is not English, then what, pray tell, is the second language? Russian? Arabic? Martian?
Or was this "bilingual school" actually "unilingual"...?
A few. Which is why Hastings got shown the door. Democrats better not come up with ways to improve education in California and make sure kids actually learn.
If only we could figure out a way to throw some gas on this fire.
It's nearly as if Mexico has a shadow state of California. It won't be long before there are polling booths in California for Mexican elections, if there aren't already. The surrender is astounding.
And I'm not one who cares how many hispanics come here legally.
Good question. I don't agree with Hastings' politics but between you and me, what was it he did wrong? People in this country, except for a handful of bilingual nuts, want their kids to be taught in English! It speaks volumes about the Democratic Party the one thing missing from it most today is common sense.
There is a momentous shift going on right now, and I don't know what to make of it. Are Rats waking up? Are they getting the courage to start jettisoning the flakes in their party? Estrich has always been the epitomy of the liberal, California, any idea, so long as it's flakey Democrat. Has she finally realized that even she's marginalized in the new, flakier Rat party? Or, is she repositioning herself as a moderate?
While I find the article interesting, it's more interesting that she wrote it.
They must have some kind of manchurian candidate huh?
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