Executive Hypocracy and the Talking Heads That Love It.

It's almost unbelievable, the crap that is coming out the Executive Branch. I am furious (as usual) about the boundless arrogance of the Obama Administration. It would be funny if not so dangerous. These people are absolutely out fo control with the "mandate" nonsense. The only mandate they have is coming from those who pull the puppet strings in Washington, in this case, the National Education Association. Obama and all Democrats in Congress continue to bow before the almighty dollars that come from these idiots, who claim to care about the education of our children. Nonsense....they couldn't care less about them, it's all about what power they can derive from the White House and Congress. That's all it's ever been about. Money.

The fine folks at the Department of Education have been supporting a program that enables disadvantaged inner city kids in the District of Columbia to attend private schools. The program is called the D.C. Opportunity Scholoarship Program. Created by Congress and the Bush administration in 2004, the program has been praised in every evaluation it has been put through. Students have seen growth in all areas that are examined by the Department of Education and several independant reviewers. Parents love it and are defending it as a lifesaver for the children enrolled. It was supposed to run through 2012. But guess what?

Democrats in congress tucked a provision into the Omnibus spending bill that effectively kills the program. Why? It works. It is giving the 1,900 kids who have been offered the scholarships a shot at getting out of the crime ridden public school and some hope for their future. Again, this is a successful education program that is making progress at moving at-risk, mostly minority, inner city kids a chance to get caught up and work at grade level after spending time in the D.C. school system where they have been educationally stifled. And it's the Democrats that want it killed. Sen. Dick Dubrin (D-Ill), had the funding for the program removed from the budget. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan agrees....the program has got to go. D.C. Delagate to Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton, went as far as calling the students in the program "victim's" of political games. She vowed to have the program ended, saying that this Democratic Congress would not continue it.

Now, why in the world do you think this is happening? Could it be because the National Education Association hates all voucher programs? I'm barely able to keep this blog free of nasty words when I think of the idiots in Washington who claim that the children are all they care about...when it's the next election and who paid for what in the last election is clearly all they care about. The NEA gives campaign cash almost exclusively to Democrats, and who is about to trash this voucher program that works? Anything the boss wants. Even parents have been begging Norton and the Democrats to keep the program alive, but to no avail. They cannot turn their backs on the cash cow called the NEA. Doesn't matter that the kids are doing well. Doesn't matter that they will be sending these kids from integrated, clean, safe schools back into segregated rat holes that most adults would be afraid to enter. Screw the kids, I need my campaign coffers filled.

Barack Obama should be ashamed of himself. All this talk about how important public schools are, and he elects to send his daughters to private schools. And it's not about their safety. Obama and members of congress make damn sure their kids don't have to attend the local public schools, but they insist that you and I do. I understand that Secretary Duncan didn't send his kids to the public schools that he was superintendant of ! Hypocrites! All of them!