Well…back to politics….damn, I know I call the repubs hypocrites a lot…because they are…and that is shown again with the hearings for the Education Secretary nominee, Miguel Cardona, who is currently the education commissioner of Conn and who was a classroom teacher and has kids in public school…but, nine of the senators who are not going to vote for him, voted for the completely unqualified Betsy DeVos whose only ties to education in any form was to fund efforts to wreck public school education here in Michigan and give lots of money to repub candidates. Gee, I wonder if this opposition is in any way related to the fact that Cardona is Hispanic and his parents came from Puerto Rico? I’m sure that’s part of it but I think a big part is that the repubs hate anyone who is an expert and actually know something about the department he is going to head and will make a difference for kids here in the US….after all, if Cardona could make the public schools here better, there would be little hope for expanding the for profit charter schools that seem to be the darling of the free enterprise folks…or all damn repubs. Why do the repubs hate our kids so much? Just a bunch of damn hypocrites….but we all know that….
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Typical DeVos bullshit…
Well….I wonder why I can still be surprised by anything that Betsy DeVos and her minions do…after all, I have lived in the state where she has done all her damage to education and see it every day…but, here’s a new one…after the widespread opposition to her nomination to Ed Sec…and the subsequent revelation that she knows absolutely nothing about education policy and plagiarized many sources in her answers to written questions submitted to the senate, her PACs and supporters have started to PAY people to call and write to senators voicing their support…yep, the solution to every problem for Betsy and her ilk is to get out the checkbook and buy whatever position you want…and if you can’t do it by directly bribing someone, then you buy people to create fake support for you when the entire country doesn’t want you anywhere near our kid’s education…..I have seen a lot in my days of following politics but this is a new low…even for the DeVos/Prince clan…oh, remember her brother Eric, the war criminal and founder of Blackwater? That should be disqualifying enough…
Another reason to kick DeVos to the curb…
Well….if another reason was needed to reject Betsy DeVos for Ed Sec, over and above her ignorant performance in her hearings and her avowed hatred of public education, that reason came yesterday in her written responses to questions put to her by the senate….and guess what? The answers were rife with plagiarized passages and one senator went so far to say that the entire thing looked like it was just cut and pasted and had no original thought in it at all…and she used the tired old repub tricks of delaying the submission until the day before the confirmation vote so the senators don’t have time to go through it thoroughly. With all of the baggage this idiot brings, worst of all her ignorance of public education policy, there is no way that any senator from either side of the aisle should vote for her….but the repubs don’t care about the kids of this country…only power….so they’ll fall in line and vote for her money….which appears to be her only qualification…..
Betsy DeVos really is an idiot…
Well…if you have seen or read about the confirmation hearing for Ed sec, you can see that the repub party has sunk to new lows of pay for play….where a totally unqualified person buys her way to a cabinet post. EdSec is a position that is supposed to think about and guarantee a good education to all of the children in this country..but, to hear ole Betsy, that stops if you are not a christian, or if you have disabilities, of if you go to a public school….in fact she has said that no one deserves a public education and has spent her time and untold millions of dollars screwing up the public schools here in Michigan…supporting taking public money and giving it to for profit schools run by repub cronies so to bleed the public schools dry and kill them off. This is all part of the coordinated repub plan to use public money to support religious schools (if they are christian of course) and damn the constitution that provides for the separation of church and state. She has shown that she knows nothing about education and has no training or experience in public education policy…but, that doesn’t matter since her family gave 200 million to the repubs over the years and that makes her qualified in her mind…but that is the only place she is quaified…geez….