Betsy DeVos is now The Secretary of The Death of Public Schools.

[SamKnause]

Privatization here we come.

Jesus schools here we come.

2 Republicans voted against the Billionaire fraud.

Republicans are EVIL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They will turn America into a police state Theocracy controlled by Wall Street.

EVIL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bengus81]

1. Two did,we needed one more....

I will sure give them their due and probably faced a load of threats.

[SamKnause]

3. Thanks for the correction.

[Phoenix61]

2. Two repubs voted against her

Which is why Pence had to vote to break the tie.

[SamKnause]

7. Post corrected.

Thanks

[dawg]

14. They were *allowed* to vote against her for political reasons.

But their constituents shouldn't let themselves be fooled. They are just as much to blame as the rest of that sorry bunch. If they were not, they'd be scrambling to get rid of those damned (R)s beside their names.

[progressoid]

22. Yep. You can bet the GOP machine got the word out to the rest to party to toe the line.

[Blue_true]

39. Are they the two that voted for her in Committee

Where her nomination could have been killed? Posers, we should put a strong Democrat up against them when they run for reelection.

[Efilroft Sul]

65. Yes, they were Blue_true.

[pangaia]

4. Pense had to vote to break a tie.

Doesn't that mean that 2 repuks voted against her?

OOPPS sorry 2 of you guys beat me by a matter of mere seconds....

[SamKnause]

8. Post corrected.

Thanks

[Else You Are Mad]

5. There goes our future.

But, on the bright side, the US will soon be #1 in uneducated and illiterate population!

[bdamomma]

12. that is what they want to be in control

the repigs want a uneducated electorate.

DAMN them this fight continues.

[dixiegrrrrl]

40. Can't have an electorate that is smarter than they are.

If my kids were school age now, I would home school them immediately.

[Bettie]

52. I have two in high school

and one in second grade.

I'm very concerned about what will happen, since we're in a very small district. I'm pretty sure the funds will be taken from rural schools first, they usually are.

I'd like my older kids to be able to graduate HS. The little one, we can figure something out for if need be.

[bdamomma]

6. The war continues

with the treasonous repigs.

they will jump ship when lives will be in danger. Party over Country.

SOBs all of them

[n2doc]

9. I am proud of our Senate Democrats

They are our last firewall. We lost this battle but the war has to continue.

[SamKnause]

11. How many more battles can we lose until the war is lost ????????

[n2doc]

27. Many. Fight them every inch of the way, make sure people know what is going on n/t

[Crash2Parties]

64. The Tea Party / Chrsitian GOP has gamed the system.

It's not up to Democrats in Congress any more. There really is little they can do at this point apart from small symbolic displays of disagreement. 2018 doesn't look like it will change much as the GOP is already prepping to game those races, too. And after the 2020 census + subsequent redistrictings & it will be a lock. Not to mention we have Dems like Pelosi.

[femmocrat]

23. I agree. They were stalwart.

I am very proud of our senator, Bob Casey. He has fought hard and kept constituents informed throughout. I will definitely donate to his campaign!

[Cryptoad]

10. GOPism can not exist if,,,

u have educated , well informed populace!

[bdamomma]

15. exactly

they want us to fall in line TOO LATE THE FIGHT CONTINUES.

[BannonsLiver]

13. She'll be hounded to the ends of the earth

There is no shortage of people lined up to make her every utterance, her every act, controversial, problematic etc.

I predict within 18 she quits amid much personal frustration.

[narnian60]

25. Toes and fingers crossed.

[Skittles]

51. she's a sociopath

she won't give a fuck - she doesn't care about poor children, so angry people will be a breeze

and she'll be especially vindictive, just like her piece of shit boss

[BannonsLiver]

59. No doubt. She is vile.

But I'm interested to see how it plays out. In my red state I've seen how far right pols mucking with public education has united those on both sides who oppose said mucking. I see some utility here with DeVos along those lines. Time will tell.

[Skittles]

60. they're well on their way to making college affordable only for wealthy families

they'll do the same for childhood education

[BannonsLiver]

61. Ok.

[raccoon]

54. From your keyboard to god's ears. nt

[Bengus81]

16. Quick...DUMP that ACA,we got us millions of $$$ in vouchers to pay for....

So rich FUCKS can send Thad and Ashton to their ultra expensive private school. Those vouchers paid for by even the poorest in the US will help put fuel in the jet or buying house #5.

[MyOwnPeace]

18. Correction...........

That's Trevor and Tiffany!

Seriously, has there EVER been a less qualified person in a cabinet position (notice I did not mention PRESIDENT - we already KNOW that answer - and I believe it is the same for BOTH!).

Again, GOD help us all (and I suspect they'll be using that prayer in the schools any day now).

[exboyfil]

32. Carson, Perry,

Tillerson, Puzder?

The one that might make the most sense is Linda McMahon.

[3catwoman3]

34. Seeing as Trump does not have any qualifications or experience for...

...the position he now holds, he doesn't think anyone else needs any either.

[Tanuki]

24. Don't forget the millions that will go to fundamentalist Christian madrassas,

where your tax money can indoctrinate a generation of children into believing in young earth creationism and parents of special needs students can be forced to sign away their due process rights to federally mandated accommodations.

I intend to hang this around the necks of both of my senators, Alexander and Corker, like a decaying Albatross corpse.

[libtodeath]

17. The nightmare that wont end.

[narnian60]

26. +1000

[Freethinker65]

19. Let the for profit feeding frenzy commence

[Initech]

20. God damn them all to hell!!

[Hortensis]

21. Sickening. Hopefully, her actions will cause some on the right

finally realize their party has been taken over by extremists. Not holding my breath for at least half, though, who have become so corrupted in their thinking that they no longer have a bottom to hit.

[Sunlei]

28. Republicans and their take our public school tax payments & hand them to 'for profit' schools.

[GallopingGhost]

29. Public schools are

beyond fucked now.

This is really laughable, except it isn't funny.

[Rex]

30. And Ben Carson is in charge of HUD.

The nightmare continues on...

[SunSeeker]

31. She will run her ADHD cure scam and theocracy push using tax dollars.

[elmac]

33. elections have consequences

for those who didn't bother to vote, for those who voted for sniffles or 3rd party, its 4 years, probably 8 years of watching your country disappeared and replace by the Fourth Reich.

[Rustyeye77]

36. What about those who voted for HRC?

and gave money to HRC?

[elmac]

41. Which includes me

we did the right thing, we bare zero blame for the coming calamity.

[FairWinds]

35. Building the US public school system took . .

well over a century of hard work by millions of Americans.

The GOP wants to destroy it, along with any other vestiges of
we're-all-in-this-togetherism.

[sarcasmo]

37. Mike Pence owns the mess Devos will create.

[SamKnause]

38. Own what mess ???

They intentionally want to destroy the public school system.

They don't view this as a mess at all.

They view this as a victory.

They want to turn America into a police state Theocracy controlled by Wall Street.

[elmac]

42. they want the mess

they want public schools to fail just like they want the postal service to fail, they want to destroy the unions at any cost + giving corporations a great big privatizing gift.

[njhoneybadger]

43. Government for sale to the highest bidder

This is the most dishonest,unscrupulous,unethical bunch of scumbags ever assembled.

[bucolic_frolic]

44. To get a good job, follow Jesus

no thinking required

[Crash2Parties]

62. No sarcasm tag needed; I've worked for such a company early in my career.

Since I was raised conservative Christian I had the right schools, etc. on my resume. I was assured I was "qualified" and would be trained. I later found out there were far more qualified applicants who were simply "not the right kind of people". Same company had periodic "purges" of any employees they felt slipped through the cracks. They'd downsize a position then immediately fill it again via the local church congregation with someone about as qualified as one of Trump's nominees.

[Lanius]

45. Another step in the Republican plan of destroying all branches government (minus the military)

But I have hope, as there are lots of people and organizations who will fight every pro-charter school, pro-Jesus school, and pro-privatization initiative she and her masters put forward. This woman was rewarded for giving $200 million to Republican candidates and supporting charter schools and religion in schools, not because she's an education expert.

[workinclasszero]

46. This will be the death knell for science based public education in the USA

Dominunist theocracy will be force fed to your children from now on.

Heil Trump citizens!


"Children in the Christian schools of America are the Army that is going to take the future."
Joseph Morecraft, Christian educator, 1987

http://www.theocracywatch.org/schools2.htm

[Orrex]

47. No one should have believed that this wasn't inevitable

The two token "no" votes were calculated political moves; if either of them had compromised DeVos' confirmation, they wouldn't have been permitted to vote.

It was a foolish and futile dream to imagine that any of these servile toadies would vote against the will of the party. Toomey received hundreds of thousands of messages pointlessly begging him not to vote for her, and he ignored all of them.

[LudwigPastorius]

48. Your (and my) tax dollars will now be going to teach kids that...

6,000 years ago a talking snake pulled a fast one on a naked chick in a garden because Jesus!

As a bonus, each school will start its very own Academi/Blackwater USA ROTC-styled squads. Let's call them "L'il Mercs for Murica"!

[hibbing]

49. I'm leaning toward giving up again

I keep vacillating between totally giving up and fighting. I wish there was a way to find out just out many contacts my idiot Senator had opposing this nomination. Trump Uber Alles.


Peace

[jmowreader]

50. You know what's going to happen, and we need to be ready for it

Betsy DeVos is going to cause public education to collapse. We know that. Within 5 years, unless we find someone to run for president who's willing to be a one-term president because the things that need to be done to back us out of Trump's Amerika are so severe it'll piss everyone off, taxpayer-funded education will be a string of private Jesus Schools that'll kick your kid out for getting a B on a quiz.

When public education collapses, Kellyanne Conway is going to go straight on Fox News in her bad clothes and worse makeup, and blame it all on Obama. (Come on. You KNOW Trump's minions are working out how to rig California to flip in his direction.)

When SHE does, every right-winger in the US is going to agree with her.

Be ready to counterattack with facts.

[raccoon]

53. I totally agree. Putting her in that position is sickening and disgusting. nt

[Turbineguy]

55. I would think that if she gives federal money

to religious schools, it would (eventually) be found unconstitutional and the government might want the money back.

SS says the Democrats are indulging in a childish game of obstruction. No dickhead, it's called governing. That's what you do when you are presented with the most unqualified candidate in the history of the universe.

I can't watch my TV while armed.

[not fooled]

57. The line between church and state

has been deliberately blurred more and more especially since chimpy. By packing the courts with Federalist Society bots, the 'pukes will stop the courts from preventing taxpayer $$$ going to religious nuttery.

Turning this country around is going to take a long time.

[DesertRat]

56. I'm so disgusted

[Chipper Chat]

58. Textbooks may be her first priority.

Science books will go to be replaced by whatever the Harmitage Foundation and Franklin Graham want our kids to read. The last period of the day might become Religion I, II, III, and IV and a requirement for graduation. And of course, no more sex education allowed in school.

[DownriverDem]

63. One More Time

How's that 3rd party vote or not at all working out for you? Hurt the Dem Party? What fools! You hurt us not the Dem Party! Bitter? You bet I am.

[Thirsty Tree]

66. I jus wants too kongrajulat Besty on er Confrimnation

And may she burn in Hell.

[mvd]

67. There used to be at least a few semi-sane Republicans in the Senate

Now there are only 2. It is absolutely disgraceful and a very sad day for our children.

[Buckeyeblue]

68. One hope

Maybe she'll prove to be too damn dumb to get anything done. In Michigan the public school funding was drastically cut to pay for a business tax cut. The extras have been cut from the schools, teachers were laid off, those who kept their job haven't had a real pay increase in years and the only way to repair buildings is to pass a bound, so the local property tax base shoulders the burden of the cost. Try getting one of those passed in a Republican community.

My guess is that every student that leaves for a private school will get to take a chunk of the schools funding with them. In a small school, that will add up quick.

It seems like it would take a while to get tjis infrastructure in place. 2018 is just around the corner.

[mr_lebowski]

69. BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Well, this friggin' blows.

[pokerfan]

70. Bring on the new textbooks!

[Jim Beard]

71. Does this mean I should start feeding my grandkids Amway soap so they can get ahead of others.