DeMint Pretends He Doesn't Want to Dismantle the Department of Education
Candy Crowley does her viewers a disservice here by allowing Jim DeMint to pretend that there's an ounce of difference between his and Sharron Angle's views on what they would like to do with the Department of Education. They both want to dismantle it. You'd think Crowley could have done a little bit of homework before she had DeMint on the air because if she had she'd have known he said this during an interview with David Brody on CBN:
Senator Jim DeMint: "I don't want to run for President. I think it's going to be an Abraham Lincoln type of Presidency the type of sacrifice. The next President is going to have to tell Americans the hard truth that the federal government has got to do less rather than more. That President has got to figure out how to dismantle the Department of Education and move the power back to the states, to dismantle the Department of Transportation and get them out of building local roads and bridges and focus on a national infrastructure; to look at the Commerce Department and the waste and the duplication there and begin to (inaudible) back to the private sector. We can't keep the same infrastructure in Washington and avoid bankruptcy as a nation. The next President is going to have to reform our entitlements. It's not popular. We’re going to have to fix our tax code so there's going to be pain and sacrifice. I'm looking for a President like Ronald Reagan who has some of Winston Churchill's characteristics."
Compare and contrast to his weasel words during this interview with Candy Crowley. What's the matter Jim? You don't want to be quite as blunt about how you really feel with the CNN audience? I don't know why it would matter. It's not like the Democrats are ever even going to try to field a decent candidate to run against him.
CROWLEY: When you -- some of these candidates that have been embraced by the tea party and by you individually, have had some ideas that people do consider to be out of the mainstream, the argument is, that's great, inside the Republican Party, big civil war going on, the tea party has had some great victories, but once we get to the election...
DEMINT: What ideas are you talking about?
CROWLEY: Well, OK, and I wanted to ask you about it. So, for instance, Sharron Angle wants to get rid of the Department of Education, is that a good idea?
DEMINT: Well, I think -- I agree that we need to devolve a lot of power out of Washington, and I would have to ask her what her position is on that.
CROWLEY: Well, getting rid of it completely, is that a good idea? Just, no more Department of Education?
DEMINT: Well, I can see a role of looking at best practices around the state. But the fact is pretty clear, Candy, since the federal government increased its involvement in the '60s, the quality of our education relative to the rest of the world has declined. And we spend more per student than any other country in the world.
So I've introduced a bill to devolve a lot of power from the federal government back to the states.
CROWLEY: But that's not the same as abolishing the Education Department, which, as you know, is quite symbolic. And a lot of money comes from the federal government...
DEMINT: Well, she's very bold to say it. The fact is, education would probably work a lot better without the Department of Education.
CROWLEY: So you would support...
DEMINT: I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation. And I've introduced a lot of legislation for that too. And you can do it in a common-sense, reasonable way that doesn't disrupt any of the activities that we support.
Lying, cheating, and stealing to new levels!
Seduction.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
liar and crowley lets him continue unabated!
If the esteemed senator is so concerned about getting the federal govt. out of areas that the states should concern themselves with perhaps he should serve as example and get out of national affairs and help straighten out that dismal third world swamp of a state that he represents! Oh, and maybe tach good ol' "You Lie" Joe Wilson some manners!
Jesus. Fucking. Christ. THIS is the shit they're running on?
Well, I suppose it could be considered technically true. He wants to dismantle the entire government (except the military and intelligence apparatus), not just the DoE.
You mean where the President is assassinated? I thought that's what you guys were hoping for (or planning) for this President?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
'Nuff said.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Where else are you going to learn dismantling
But in biology class?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
"Republicans are surging in the polls."
Why don't they just put up on the screen, "we love sucking republican a**, and will do anything to bolster their prospects."
Again, I come into contact with a lot of people everyday, and outside of a few knuckle dragging tea bagger imbeciles, I have not found one single person who is galvanized - or even inspired to vote republican. Not a single one. And that includes the republicans.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Just another "surge" that ain't working. It's a surge of media spin, lies, and propaganda.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
can someone please explain to me what exactly will happen should the dept of education cease to exist?
of the country will become Texas or Kentucky.
It's not all or nothing.
Ultimately, if you play it to it's logical conclusion, America would become a mirror image of Afghanistan, with local traditions, colloquialisms the only remaining difference. Sometimes a cowboy hat is a turban.
But we won't let the department of education go anywhere.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
the governor of texas is still trying
the steal the teachers' retirement funds
for personal intentions.
They don't like public education since it levels the playing field between the poor and rich. They wan't it gone so that the underclass is truly poor and truly ignorant. The wan't the Federal Government gone so that the elite in their class will have none one to stop them from enslaving the poor in their state.
... dismantle the Department of Transportation and get them out of building local roads and bridges and focus on a national infrastructure...
Umm, sounds nice in theory, but I don't want to worrry that just because I come to East Butthook, SC that my cargo of fine, Chinese-made pyrotechnics, en route to your town's Glenn-Beck-athon, is going to fall into Cheezuschristonacracker Creek because Cleetus and Enid (husband and fourth wife county roads maintenance "team") have been parlaying your county's generous $3000/year road maintenance budget into church bingo and supporting the local NASCAR driver-wannabe's parole costs.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
He also talks about what he would say to Mike Castle if he ran into him and whether he could beat Mitch McConnell in an arm wrestling match.
Ain't going there...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Crowley IS a disservice to her audience. Ever notice how decent reporters get their names on shows or a big, important title & their journalistic skills go directly down the toilet? (See Chuck Todd, Ed Henry, etc.)
It's not all or nothing.
DeMint is always pretending, and he's always seducing. It never stops. Whatever you do, do not leave your children with this man. Nor your government. Not for a second.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
By just being on the air in the first place. Just another GOP/Corporatist lackey raking in the big bucks to be an enabler of the right wing looney fringe.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
dishonest bitch (not a slur, she really is dishonest and a bitch), for years on McLaughlin Group. In summary, she was wrong.......about many things.....all of the time. Even Tony Blankly looked sane sitting next to her.
CNN expects us to believe this viscous, fascist partisan is a fair host. Here CNN, let me make it easy for you:
Just replace some letters in your organization's name: CNN.........to FOX!
There, now you're labeled correctly.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
if the fucking gop gets it's way this country is
headed back to an oligarchy and feudal system.
everyone but the fat fucking old white bastards
will be used and abused like they were in the late
1800's and early 1900's.
the wealthy in this country are hiding all their
stolen money out of this country in hidden accounts.
i am ready to ask the french to loan us their guillotine.
The Mad Hatters and Crazy as Batters are certainly showing their ugly side while they try to strangle us all, and convince us to vote for them at the same time.
Those Democrats are looking better every day!
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
And by the CATTLE it means YOU the 98% !!!
The ONLY education YOU are supposed to get is Jersey Shore & CFR
The TOP 2% don't want their offspring to have ANY COMPETITION ... so bust your ass and don't interfere in the plans of the TITANS.
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
There are TREE classes:
-The top 2%
-The top 2%'s BUTLERS - aka the GOP
and
-The CATTLE
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
dement (dɪˈmɛnt)
— vb
1. ( intr ) to deteriorate mentally, esp because of old age
2. rare ( tr ) to drive mad; make insane
[C16: from Late Latin dēmentāre to drive mad, from Latin de- + mēns mind]
OH!!!
I thought there was an alternate spelling
If you need funds to pay for essentials, you have a revenue problem
If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
Public Education in this country was established under the Articles of Confederation. I would love to toss a Founding Father argument in this guys face.
We don't need to dismantle the Education Dept., or the Commerce Dept., or the Transportation Dept.; nor do we need to privatize Social Security, cut back Medicare, or Unemployment insurance payments to steer the USA away from insolvency.
What we need to do is: change the elections laws and enforce them so we can be sure the votes are counted honestly; enact term limits for Congress; overturn the SCOTUS decision re: corporate personhood and unlimited election contributions; eliminate lobbying by corporations; change the tax code and make the richest folks pay their fair share; and, Stop Invading Sovereign Nations and starting Stupid, Useless Wars.
This is supposed to be a country in which the government is "of, by and for the PEOPLE"!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
you don't keep people voting Republican by keeping them educated. Keep em ignorant, fearful and blinded by religion, that's how you keep em voting Republican and against their own best interests.
She's ignorant, lazy and useless. This is the same woman who blamed President Obama for people believing he's a Muslim because, as she put it, "You don't see him going to church". Which is why the photos of the Obama's going to church today really pissed me off. As I've said before I don't give a shit if my President goes to church or not and it's not just because I'm Agnostic. I just don't see what the fuck that has to do with running this country. I will say this, I find many of these santimonious religious peole extremely offensive.
a few months ago and it's spot on in describing these Conservative Republicans and they're all full of shit.
""Cheap labor". That's their whole philosophy in a nutshell – which gives you a short and pithy "catch phrase" that describes them perfectly. You've heard of "big-government liberals". Well they're "cheap-labor conservatives".
"Cheap-labor conservative" is a moniker they will never shake, and never live down. Because it's exactly what they are. You see, cheap-labor conservatives are defenders of corporate America – whose fortunes depend on labor. The larger the labor supply, the cheaper it is. The more desperately you need a job, the cheaper you'll work, and the more power those "corporate lords" have over you. If you are a wealthy elite – or a "wannabe" like most dittoheads – your wealth, power and privilege is enhanced by a labor pool, forced to work cheap."
That pretty much sums it up. The article was quite extensive and it lays out exactly who they are and what they stand for. CLC's. Cheap Labor Conservatives.
talking about "Cheap labor" ... the only jobs that Bush Jr. created were those workers LAID OFF in waves by Corporations and then RE-HIRED at TWICE CHEAPER price !!!
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
one of the MAIN reasons your hard work get WORTHLESS with each passing day:
RECRUITERS - a BLOOD sucking monsters, who TRADE how much your salary should WORTH ...
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
That article also points out that this is the reason that Conservatives hate the Unions. Because they fight for better wages and benefits for workers here and Corporations naturally prefer to ship jobs overseas where they can pay slave wages and exploit workers and children. Everytime one of these bastards talks about "Small Government" what they really want is more private sector contracts and less public sector jobs.
if ever there were a time we need them, it's now.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
... that unions not be needed anymore. But that would be utopia.
If you need funds to pay for essentials, you have a revenue problem
If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
Pain and sacrifice? What the f*** would he know about pain and sacrifice? Sure, they've foisted it upon the American public for the past 30 years, but they haven't experienced it themselves.
Time for the rich mofos to get some firsthand knowledge of pain and sacrifice. If they're going to whine about class warfare, I say let's bring it on!
I consider DeMint one of the most dangerous men in the republican party. I consider him cruel and merciless. I believe his soul is a black hole.
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“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
on Crowley and 'done her homework' in the same sentence. She is one of the worse excuses for an anchor I have ever seen, although there is another type of anchor she could be.
None researches what these people have said before. Why with a democratic president and congress do we see right wingers all over the sunday shows? I still haven't seen the Dems out there promoting the small business act that just passed. What is this with Dems fighting to get things passed and then they are quiet about it?
Democrats - we fight for you ... up to a point !
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
if you gonna mention Crowley you have to mention the whole stinking package - Candy Crowley, John King, Gloria Borger, Jessica Yellin, Dana Bash ...
... aka Satan's little helpers.
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
Weasel words from the Chief Weasel. An iterview by Crowley is a waste of Viewers' time. She jut can't get around to asking hime whether "devolve" could include "abolishment" as he has peviously stated. Doesn't matter, he would lie anyway.
Obama and Arne Duncan--under the guise of 'fixing' public education--are vilifying teachers and teachers' unions. According to both men, the problem du jour in public education is 'bad teachers' who cannot be fired because they have tenure. According to both men, teachers' unions are rabidly protecting a plethora of bad teachers.
What a load of El Toro PooPoo!!
With a 40% illiteracy rate in our adult population, it's clear there's something amiss with public education. However, distilling public education's myriad challenges into a 'bad teacher' meme is both simplistic and misleading.
Our children deserve our heartfelt dedication to providing them an exemplary education. Our society MUST become truly child-centric in order to achieve this. Expanded funding, parental participation, and contemporary technology are a fair start in the right direction. Healthy, palatable meals should be a given. Physical activity (and not just competitive sports) should punctuate the lengthy school day, and habituate exercising. These are but a few of the essential elements of exemplary education.
The corporatists would like to 'privatize' education, which is just 'corporatist-speak' for slashing costs and increasing profitability. The corporatists' ubiquitous red herring strategies are manifest in their 'bad teacher' meme. And, if they have their way, monied charter schools will predominate in 'wealthier' neighborhoods, and our low-income children won't stand a chance of getting a good education.
Please, don't be complicit and don't let them destroy public education.
Just like all Congressmen protect "convicted felon" Congressman's right to continue receiving $100k retirement.
It's just the country we live in ... where the "bad apples" expect to be allowed to HIDE AMONGST the "good apples" ... think FALSE EQUIVALENCE and IMPUNITY.
Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking
Republicans for Voldemort
Government does work, just not for YOU. Government work ONLY on the behalf of the Tycoons
Repeal stupid
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