Is Obama's appointment of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education as bad or worse

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than Bush's appointment of Elaine Chao as Secretary of Labor?

Watch the video "Pushing the Chicago Plan" linked to in this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=219x22846

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1. Arne is a great contributor to the administration's basketball team.

Congress doesn't dare play them and the SCOTUS doesn't even have a team if you can believe that.

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4. That was his #1 job qualification

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9. It seems to have been his *only* qualification. nt

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2. He sucks. End of story.

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3. I can see the charter shills are still awake.

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5. The only people still alive to take education seriously are the rank and file public educators

The rest? Forget it.

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6. arne duncan is only doing what obama tells him to so don't blame him for policy nt

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10. Just following orders, huh?

Obama is micromanaging education policy? I don't buy it. Corporate whores have no business dabbling in education policy that affects the lives of millions of children.

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7. Appointing the guy who defended GE's pollution of the Hudson as DOJ's lead guy on environmental

prosecution was worse.

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/05/15/15greenwire-doj-nominees-industry-experience-a-worry-for-s-12208.html

DOJ nominee's industry experience a worry for some

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Obama announced plans earlier this week to nominate Ignacia Moreno, counsel of corporate environmental programs at General Electric Corp., to serve as assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division (Greenwire, May 13).

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Matthiessen, whose group focuses on cleaning up pollution in the Hudson River, said he was particularly troubled by Moreno's tenure as counsel to GE, whose plants discharged as much as 1.3 million pounds of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) into the Hudson River in New York between 1947 and 1977. GE is accused of dragging its feet for years to avoid the costly cleanup.

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8. Only the Summers/Geithner appointments come close.

Duncan has been a disaster.

[Starry Messenger]

11. Much worse.

I expect Republicans to enact Republican policy. When it's your so-called "allies" stabbing you in the back, it's many times worse.

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12. Proof positive that our education system is failing.

So far, seven people have selected "Arne's doing a great job"