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This George Will piece demonstrates not just the hypocrisy of modern liberalism, but its utter moral bankruptcy. Trapping poor minority children in Washington, DC's failing public schools is apparently President Hope Change's idea of progress.
While he, like Bill and Hillary Clinton before him, sends his own children to tony Sidwell Friends, not DC public schools, President Obama doesn't believe poor DC parents deserve the same choice for their children. In addition to hope and change, I guess the new administration is bringing a little Maria Antoinette, let-em-eat-cake to Washington.
As a veteran of the school choice wars during my days in Washington with Dick Armey, I can tell you that no issue made me madder than this one. Raw partisan politics meant more to liberals than the lives of children whose parents were desperate to give them a chance at a better future. It exposed the true nature of the modern left: Their teachers' union paymasters called the tune, and they danced.
They really are modern-day George Wallaces. Only this time, they are standing in the school house door to trap the children inside rather than keep them out.
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Sunday, 01 March 2009 10:18 |
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Posting has been a bit light here at New Majority as we transition into some new activities. For a limited government organization like this one, the daily challenge is, "where do we start?"
There is so much new government sprouting from so many places, it's simply staggering.
For the past several months here at New Majority Project, our mantra has been, "to solve this crisis and prepare for the future, government needs to do fewer things, but do them better." Of course, government at all levels has taken the opposite tack: they've decided to do everything, but in the most slipshod, expensive, inefficient, incompetent manner possible."
Yet, they do it with supreme arrogance, as though it's no big deal that Uncle Sucker in Washington is running a $1.75 TRILLION yearly deficit or that Caleeforneeaa is broke. They act as though they've solved problems rather than kicked them down the road a few more feet.
Batten down the hatches, ladies and gentlemen. There's one heckuva storm brewing.
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Thursday, 13 November 2008 11:28 |
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Recently, New Majority President Pat Shortridge appeared on Minnesota Public Radio to address the challenges facing those who care about limited government.
The audio is here. |
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Friday, 24 October 2008 15:11 |
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If current trends hold, this will be the second consecutive election Republicans do not defeat a single Democrat Senate incumbent or win a Democrat Senate open seat. The last time a party did not win a single Senate seat from the other party in consecutive elections was 1932 and 1934, when Republicans again were shut out.
Is this a harbinger of a realignment along FDR lines or is this merely a bump in the road following two decades of Republican success? The Right's response following November 4th will give us a hint.
Following the 2006 debacle, many of us argued strongly for a fundamental reevaluation and beginning a true rebuilding process. I've made the case repeatedly that, in 2008, the same people doing the same things will not produce different results. That's about to be borne out. This time, I hope we learn from our mistakes.
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Friday, 24 October 2008 15:05 |
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National Review Online was kind enough to publish the following article. As always, I welcome your thoughts.
A sample:
The problem with Republican candidates today is that they seem dangerously out of touch. All this talk of bipartisanship and bringing people together is insane. Bring whom together to do what? The current crowd in Washington with their bottom-feeding approval ratings? People don’t want them “brought together”; they want them run out of town on a rail. They want someone to be held accountable for the scandalous incompetence that has brought us to where we are today.
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