In 1994, McCain proposed ‘doing away’ with Dept. of Education.
In 1994, McCain proposed ‘doing away’ with Dept. of Education.
Greg Sargent notes that in a 1994 interview, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) suggested that the U.S. should abolish the Department of Energy and the Department of Education:
FRANK SESNO: Senator McCain, would you favor doing away with the Department of Housing and Urban Development or the Department of Energy?
McCAIN: I would certainly favor doing away with the Department of Energy and I think that given the origins of the Department of Education, I would favor doing away with it as well. HUD had experienced many failures under both Republican and Democrat administrations and I would certainly want to revamp it from the bottom up, because, clearly, public housing in America is almost as big a disaster as the welfare program…
McCain spokesperson Tucker Bounds, in a statement, said that “nothing that John McCain has proposed would reduce funding for public schools.”
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As long as you’re a legacy to West Point, why bother with education at all? It kind of explains the 895/899 class ranking of McSame, though.
September 9th, 2008 at 2:31 pmIt’s 2008, not 1994. But keep out the attacks they aren’t working. Nobody cares what you Leftists have to say.
September 9th, 2008 at 2:32 pmhttp://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_palin.html
* Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn’t cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years.
September 9th, 2008 at 2:34 pm* She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library. Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time. The librarian has said Palin asked a “What if?” question, but the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin’s first term.
* She was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States. She’s been registered as a Republican since May 1982.
* Palin never endorsed or supported Pat Buchanan for president. She once wore a Buchanan button as a “courtesy” when he visited Wasilla, but shortly afterward she was appointed to co-chair of the campaign of Steve Forbes in the state.
* Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska’s schools. She has said that students should be allowed to “debate both sides” of the evolution question, but she also said creationism “doesn’t have to be part of the curriculum.”
well, finally!
something to endear himself to the frighties!
September 9th, 2008 at 2:37 pmWhen you are 845 in a class of 849 (in a school you could never have entered were it not for your parentage), what do you expect he would think about education?
September 9th, 2008 at 2:40 pmAn educated populace is a dangerous thing. You can’t get away with nearly as much…
September 9th, 2008 at 2:40 pmCommunity Organizer Says:
Our trolls have a strange habit of naming themselves after useful and proud members of a progressive society (Community Organizer, John Kerry, etc.) when, in fact, they are nothing of the sort.
September 9th, 2008 at 2:41 pmHe also wanted to do away with class standings at Annapolis.
894th out of 899, in case anyone forgot.
Without the DOE, how could we answer the question “Is our children learning?”
PEACE
September 9th, 2008 at 2:43 pmMegan McCain says:
September 9th, 2008 at 2:45 pmMy family knows more about education than anyone else does! Daddy was a legacy idiot, mommy is trustfund Barbie, and I’m a whiny self absorbed bimbo who’s opinion matters because my mommy can buy and sell your mommy. Literally.
Jesus Christ was a community organizer.
Pontius Pilate was a governor.
Other community organizers were:
September 9th, 2008 at 2:46 pmJohn Adams, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Jane Addams, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, Susan B. Anthony, and many,many more.
CO, this thread is about McStain, not Palin. But since you brought it up:
Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska’s schools. She has said that students should be allowed to “debate both sides” of the evolution question.
There is no “debate” about evolution amongst those educated outside of the Regence/Liberty University system of brainwashing. And students are welcome to “debate both sides”… in Sunday School.
PEACE
September 9th, 2008 at 2:48 pmHey Trajan!
September 9th, 2008 at 2:49 pmMy one and only post acknowledging you.
Have a great, productive, fun filled, Cabo Wabo type day!
The ‘mav’ could easily get nothing done because of constantly being at odds with both parties of Congress. That scenerio is much more likely than totally reforming DC from the inside.
September 9th, 2008 at 2:50 pmPalin: first in earmarks, first in charging State of Alaska per diem for 312 days she lived at home as Gov, first in lying.
McWar: first in Navy jets crashed (five), nearly last in academic achievement at Naval Academy, first in POW-crowing.
Republicans: personal power first, personal greed second, Party third, country: running fourth or fifth…
September 9th, 2008 at 2:50 pmCommunity Organizer, those facts came from FOX? I’m sorry, but there is real news on the internet. She did try to ban books from the library, she was a member of a group wanting to cede from the U.S. She supported Pat Buchanan. She doesn’t believe in global warming. She was for the bridge to nowhere. She then said she was against it and kept all the money. She built a sports stadium in her hometown instead of sewer lines (which the town doesn’t have). She fired the head of the State Police who wouldn’t fire her brother inlaw.
September 9th, 2008 at 2:51 pmShe believes in endtimes and the rapture. She left the town she was in mayor of 22 million dollars in debt. She didn’t sell the state jet on e-bay. Alaska is one big earmark in that it receives almost $1.90 in federal assistance for every $1.00 it pays in taxes.
She’s lied about most everything, including the bridge. She believes the war in Iraq was a mission of god and that the attack on the Twin Towers was gods way of drawing us into the conflict.
In short, she’s a lunatic. She has no qualifications to be one step away from the Presidency. If she wants to be a mayor fine, if she wants to be a commuinty oragnizer, fine. She is not qualified for anything else.
Does it really matter what McCain said in 1994? I mean, think of how many times he’s probably flip-flopped since then…
September 9th, 2008 at 2:51 pmAbolish the Dept of Defense.
Abolish extreme fundamentalist christofascists.
Abolish tax breaks for offshore corporations.
Abolish Cancervatism.
Do it for our Country. America 1st. TheoCons last.
September 9th, 2008 at 2:52 pmCommunity Organizer cuts and pastes some stuff
September 9th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
* Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska’s schools. She has said that students should be allowed to “debate both sides” of the evolution question, but she also said creationism “doesn’t have to be part of the curriculum.”
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If Palin supports debating “both sides” of the evolution question, she probably also supports debating “both sides” of the “is the earth round?” question.
But that isn’t really what this thread is about — it’s about education. Oh, wait…
September 9th, 2008 at 2:54 pmIf McSame were a better student, he might know more about the Cosntitution.
From Obama today:
…If the plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks are in the government’s sights, Obama went on, they should be targeted and killed.
“My position has always been clear: If you’ve got a terrorist, take him out,” Obama said. “Anybody who was involved in 9/11, take ‘em out.”
But Obama, who taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago for more than a decade, said captured suspects deserve to file writs of habeus corpus.
Calling it “the foundation of Anglo-American law,” he said the principle “says very simply: If the government grabs you, then you have the right to at least ask, ‘Why was I grabbed?’ And say, ‘Maybe you’ve got the wrong person.’”
The safeguard is essential, Obama continued, “because we don’t always have the right person.”
“We don’t always catch the right person,” he said. “We may think it’s Mohammed the terrorist, but it might be Mohammed the cab driver. You might think it’s Barack the bomb-thrower, but it might be Barack the guy running for president.”
“The reason that you have this principle is not to be soft on terrorism. It’s because that’s who we are. That’s what we’re protecting,” Obama said, his voice growing louder and the crowd rising to its feet to cheer. “Don’t mock the Constitution. Don’t make fun of it. Don’t suggest that it’s not American to abide by what the founding fathers set up. It’s worked pretty well for over 200 years.”
He finished with a dismissive comment about his opponents.
“These people.”
September 9th, 2008 at 2:57 pmrobbez_92107 Says:
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As long as you’re a legacy to West Point, why bother with education at all? It kind of explains the 895/899 class ranking of McSame, though.
September 9th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Sorry to nitpick , but McDepends is a naval academy graduate , which is in Annapolis , Maryland , not West Point……
September 9th, 2008 at 3:01 pmIf we’re so irrelivant why do feel compelled to make a statement here about it? I find you amusing in a child who threw up in the back seat of the car kind of a way.
September 9th, 2008 at 4:26 pmOn topic, I don’t care what he said back then but you can bet he will fall in lockstep with the rest of the republicans and do all he can to destroy every positive facet of our country…..it’s what they stand for after all.
September 9th, 2008 at 4:28 pmBooks Mayor Sarah Palin tried to remove from Wasilla library
This information is taken from the official minutes of the
September 9th, 2008 at 5:10 pmWasilla Library Board.
When the librarian refused to ban the books, Palin tried to get
her fired.*
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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
D ecameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It’s Okay if You Don’t Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher
Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women’s Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse- Five by Kurt Vo nnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil’s Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won’t by Judy Blume
To Kill A M ockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster
Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween
Symbols by Edna Barth
I suppose this will be spun to indicate he simply wished to spare us from the clusterf uck which is NCLB
September 9th, 2008 at 6:18 pm