CNN is saying education, special education among the large cuts

[TeamJordan23]

Good job Harry.

[Thrill]

1. Thats f-ed up. Hopefully the House puts it back in

and takes those tax cuts out.

[FrenchieCat]

3. The Republicans will pay for that.

That was probably the worse thing to be advertised as having been "cut".

It will be brought back in the conference.

President Obama will be campaigning throughout the country to make sure of that.

[demo dutch]

6. No they need to pass it, Education will come

[babylonsister]

2. If that's what it took for rethugs to agree to the stimulus, I think it makes

them look a lot more culpable than Reid.

[FrenchieCat]

8. Thank you.

[Sebass1271]

9. good point with you on this... hummmm

[tosh]

15. Okay. That's a good way to look at it.

[politicasista]

20. Ok, that now makes sense n/t

[ikojo]

4. Yeah, good job Harry..throwing kids under the

bus. That's the way to do it, after all they don't vote.

[Sebass1271]

5. Let's see if that is true. I would be pissed at Reid..one more

time.

[Lucian]

7. Oh great. And just when I was going to go back to school this fall.

Way to go Dems. :eyes:

[deoxyribonuclease]

10. This shows how little the politicians and American society value education

[bdamomma]

27. dumbed down Americans ring a bell.

the repigs want to keep the masses ignorant and uneducated, now I guess more college bound individuals will be joining the Army, sadly.

[Fire1]

30. Hello! And Michelle was just on tv two days ago talking about

the importance of education and being competitive. That's a damn shame.

[tosh]

11. That is really CUTE considering that almost all repug governors

are literally slashing education funds at the state level.

Why do they want to spread their corporatism to education? Why do they think that it's good to profit at the risk of our kids?

Sheesh!! All they see is $$$$. They are blinded by $$$$.

[Parker CA]

12. Stay classy, pukes. Unbelievable they don't see the benefit of education spending.

Attempting to work with these people is like throwing a rock against a sponge wall and expecting it to bounce back. Obama will surely make them own this next week in his speech and Town Hall tour.

[Phx_Dem]

13. How soon the Republicans forget about children like Trigg Palin.

How they fawned over him. What a farce. They don't, and probably never did, give a shit about special education for special children. You'd think we'd hear Palin screaming about this, but we won't. If it isn't about their own child, they don't care. Trigg's too young for "education" so who cares. Cut away.

The party of family values. :puke:

[Jamastiene]

14. Oh damn. First the Poisonous Peanut company purposely sends 32 truckloads of poison peanut butter

to schools. Now, our own government shits on them. What next? :shrug:

[Edgewater_Joe]

16. This is NOT The Final Bill, People!

It is only the SENATE'S version. It now goes to a conference committee with the Hosue -- and Pelosi has already said the education funds are NOT going to be cut.

Add to that the fact that Obama's going on the TV with a prime-time presser and two town hall meetings next week and the fact that Repunks are now being The Party That Hates Special Ed, the stage should be set -- if WE do our thing by burning up the phone lines -- to get a bill closer to the House's bill.

Because, as OpenLeft is reporting, the Senate only needs 50 votes to pass a bill that comes out of conference committee. And it can't be filibustered.

This is a procedural move to keep the process going, and as Obama's been doing, he's gotten the Repunks to think, Black-Knight-like, that they're winning the debate when in fact they're bleeding from their festering stumps.

Stay on the phones. There's one more round to go and we should still have the advantage ...

[ecstatic]

19. thanks for the informative post

I never took a Government course. :spank:

[ChiciB1]

29. We NEED To Keep Calling... What Is The Number To Reach Senators

without it being long distance?? I lost it!

[CreekDog]

17. It will be said that education had to be cut for Republicans to allow the bill to pass

Well, well, well.

I have a feeling those cuts will be restored in this bill or another.

And I have a feeling, this news will hurt Republicans more than Reid.

[malletgirl02]

18. That Sucks

The key failure of Reid and other Democrats was that they didn't properly frame the stimulus package. The republicans were able to frame the package as full of pork and the Democrats didn't do enough to counteract the Republicans message. They were so ineffective that many posters even on DU thought the bill was full of pork. To be fair part of the problem was the media, because there were a few strong Democratic voices out there, but not enough to counteract the framing of the Republicans and the media.

[Are_grits_groceries]

21. The very next thing I would do

would be to put together a Save the Schools bill. (For god's sake don't call it a stimulus.) Then I would push all the problems schools are having, etc. I would run ads 24/7.

[stray cat]

22. A stimulus bill should perhaps to targeted as a stimulus

Other good bills that include education can be done at a less panicked state

[TeamJordan23]

23. Teacher's jobs may be at risk. nm

[Are_grits_groceries]

25. They are at risk.

That's why I would be ready to shove just an education bill down their throats. It's not just teacher's jobs either. Class sizes are increasing, etc. Make it hurt the Rethugs if they won't support it..

[RayOfHope]

31. Absolutely. I'm a teacher, and a special ed teacher at that. Things look very grim

without the help form this stimulus. Luckily Claire McCaskill is one of my senators, but Kit Bond is the other. I've been trying to call him ALL damn day but the line is busy. His office probably took it off the hook. I emailed though.

[ZombieHorde]

24. I will be extremely disappointed if Obama cuts education. nt

[EraOfResponsibility]

26. *smh*

[Fire1]

28. WHAT???????????

[HOLOS]

32. Deeply Inhumane-Anti-American & VEERRRY Repuked!