New Majority Project

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.