Papantonio: The Exorcism of the GOP

[GoLeft TV]

Mike Papantonio appears on The Ed Show on MSNBC to talk about the “NEW” Republican Party, which is being led by GOP old boys Jeb Bush and Bobby Jindal.

[maddiemom]

1. Jeb looks and sounds more serious and smarter than Dubya (plus he's got a Latina wife).

Bottom line: one more Bush. Not much more is known about him to most of the country. Florida used to be full of older, conservative folks who could afford to retire there (other than my grandparents, who were Scandinavian heritage liberals, and a few of their friends). Not so much in my generation. Still, I don't see many progressives making up the majority there (hang on, Alan Grayson). This clip was enlightening. Could the Dems start taking the offensive this time? The Republicans will snivel and complain if what goes around, comes around...but just TOUGH! I'm speaking as someone who's been involved in local GOTV campaigns. Time for the Democrats to take off the gloves.







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[Duval]

3. I so agree with you, maddiemom. n/t

[Duval]

2. Sounds just like the

GOP old boys. Papantonio has been a favorite of mine for years. Thanks so much for posting, GoLeftTV!

[DhhD]

4. Changing public education in order to profit off the taxpayers while removing children.

Changing the Odds Conference in Dallas attended by Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlins along with Bush.
http://neighborsgoblog.dallasnews.com/2013/09/jeb-bush-was-keynote-speaker-at-changing-the-odds-dinner.html/

Dallas ISD could be destroyed as a public school governed under Texas Education Code to become a privatized charter called a Home-Ruled Charter.
http://allianceaft.tx.aft.org/press/push-home-rule-charter-power-grab-threatens-public-school-quality-and-parental-rights

In about 1992, the Lubbock Avalanche Journal ran an article about GWB in which he advocated that children of the poor (in Texas), should be removed and placed in orphanages. The Bush Family must have been ready to educate these children for private profit. I am not able to go through microfilm in Lubbock for the exact story and date.

[maddiemom]

6. I started teaching in the late sixties through mid seventies in two predominately

blue collar districts where many of the kids had the attitude: " I can drop out of high school tomorrow and make more money than a teacher ever will." This was very true at the time. My own father was a very skilled laborer and high school drop-out who earned enough to keep us solidly middle class. My mom was an early working mother at the time, through choice, rather than necessity. She hated housework and preferred paying someone else to do it. (This was the "Beaver" era, but she never wore pearls around the house, and rarely to her office job). The saving grace at the time was that most blue collar parents wanted way more for their kids. Today, a college education can no longer guarantee a job, much less a comfortable living income without humongous student loan debt . How did we let this happen? In little more than thirty years? A truly weird change in attitude tracing back to ...the sainted Ronnie Reagan, who gained himself from the the FDR reforms? Way too easy an answer. "Getting our country back" has real meaning rather than the inane teabagger mantra.

[Snarkoleptic]

5. Great analysis...

off to the greatest page!