Jeb Bush Gives Obama, Duncan Two Thumbs Up

[Hannah Bell]

Jeb Bush's appearance at the National Forum on Education Policy, a gather looking to explore "how education can be an engine to ignite the economy" :

Highlights (lowlights):


What he'd do to improve public education (aka disaster capitalism applied to public education):

"More school choice across the board. Create it, make it chaotic, if you will. To me, the chaos will create huge opportunities for a whole new set of people to join in this important process to make sure children gain a year’s worth of knowledge, rigorous knowledge, in a year’s time."


On education reform, Arne Duncan:

“I think for the first time in my political life at least, there seems to be more consensus than disagreement across the ideological spectrum about education reform. I’m very encouraged about Secretary Duncan’s advocacy of challenging the status quo, and I’m excited that Republicans seem to be not wanting to get into a food fight about this but to join forces and to find common ground.”

http://schoolsmatter.blogspot.com/2009/07/jeb-bush-gives-obama-duncan-two-thumbs.html


Right & left: both on board for privatization of public services & deunionization of public employees! Warm & fuzzy.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Swell

:puke:

[Deja Q]

2. When republicans applaud democrats, people are going to take notice.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. New Freeper tactic: The Kiss of Death

[Vidar]

4. That's the worst sign yet.

[calimary]

5. Hey, look - on paper, maybe. But what pulls me back is considering who's for it.

I do have this reflexive instinct to jump to "hmmm... if he's talking it up, there must be something wrong with it." Can't help it. Just the presence of ANY bush makes a big yellow caution light start blinking in my brain.

[ashling]

6. I agree - especially considering

the way NCLB turned out

[peace frog]

7. Any thing or person Jeb Bush praises

is enough censure in itself. And I didn't think I could feel any worse about Obama, never mind Duncan. :scared: