Pro-DeVos ads air, saying liberal critics are full of rage and hate, as anti-DeVos protests are
Source: Washington Post
The unlikely battle over the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as President Trumps nominee for education secretary is becoming even more pitched in the final days before a Senate vote with the airing of hundreds of thousands of dollars of advertisements attacking extreme liberals full of rage and hate who oppose her while protests against her were being staged around the country.
The controversy over the nomination of DeVos, a Michigan billionaire, is the most ferocious of any education secretary in the nearly 40-year history of the Education Department, and of any Trump nominee and it is only likely to deepen until there is a vote early next week on the Senate floor. The vote stands, it is believed, at 50-50, including two Republicans who have come out against DeVos despite enormous pressure from the GOP to support her. If no senator changes position, Vice President Pence would have to break the tie to confirm her.
Republican leaders and a White House spokesman said they are sure she will be confirmed, but her opponents are still hoping to persuade one Republican senator to switch sides this weekend. Senate offices in Washington and in the states have been swamped with phone calls and emails in some cases unprecedented numbers.
Supporters of DeVos say that she is a champion of school choice who wants to help students find the best educational opportunities and that the opposition is coming from partisan Democrats playing politics. Her critics say that her advocacy for charter schools and vouchers and support for religious schools shows her determination to privatize public education and that she is out of the mainstream even in the school choice world, evidenced by opposition to her from many supporters of school choice.
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Pro-DeVos ads air, saying liberal critics are full of rage and hate, as anti-DeVos protests are held
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)seen ads supporting cabinet nominees and nominees to the Supreme Court. I wonder who is paying for these ads and just why they are considered a good idea?
groundloop
(11,519 posts)catrose
(5,066 posts)hibbing
(10,098 posts)Demonstrates just how corrupted our political system is by the ruling class.
Peace
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)Who are these people who think it is so important for her, of all people, to get nominated?
MattP
(3,304 posts)Marthe48
(16,959 posts)and she doesn't work either
n/t
Turbineguy
(37,329 posts)I've seen ads for cabinet appointees. I saw one for Tillerson.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)the Oscar's so why shouldn't work for a cabinet appointment? Oh wait it didn't work for Slim Pickens.
Living in grand rapids Michigan, I actually saw one of these ads on tv. Good thing I hadn't just finished eating or I would have thrown up. She's a dumb blonde who married into money, not that her family didn't also have money. They are Dutch Christian Reformed who are convinced they are right and everyone else is wrong. Lest we forget, the Dutch created apartheid in South Africa. They bought West Michigan and are now looking to expand their " holy kingdom".
eggplant
(3,911 posts)I think my favorite line from GR back when I lived there was... Here in Grand Rapids, "Going Dutch" means *nobody* pays!
When my friends would come to visit, I would show them the four things that, at least to me, truly represented GR:
- Meijers (this was back when 24 hour shopping didn't exist anywhere else)
- Amway's Hall of Free Enterprise (with the 1 1/2 times life sized statues of DeVos and VanAndel)
- The Gerald R. Ford museum
and rounding out the list...
- The Fish Ladder.
(Ok, Amway is in Ada, not GR, but the point stands.)
Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)"@TedNugent @kendalad take him hunting and shoot them pleased"
disalitervisum
(470 posts)the schools teaching our children that jesus had a pet dinosaur.
On a similar note, this thing about jerry falwell jr. being appointed to "revamp higher education" is just as frightening.
Within a generation, America will be a theocracy, fighting religious wars with theocracies like Iran. That's what they want.
Cha
(297,224 posts)Or just Bullshit about the warranted Protests?
bora13
(860 posts)Shareef don't like it, fundementally can't take it
Rock the Casbah, Rock the Casbah
paleotn
(17,913 posts)cons tend to flock together.
Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)It's obviously working. If they are trolling for supporters - they are fucked.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,190 posts)People are including their zip codes to emphasize they are Texas voters.