California Conservative

That’s the message Democrats have delivered to President Bush on education spending. Here’s the money quote from the AP article:

Bush has overseen record school spending, but Democrats say it is far less than schools need to succeed. “Unfortunately, President Bush still doesn’t realize that No Child Left Behind was a promise, not a political slogan,” said Sen. Edward Kennedy, (D-MA), a key backer of the law.

There’s a bunch of things that I’ll nitpick about in that paragraph. First is that, even though they’re spending far more than they did during the supposed glory days of the Clinton administration, Ted Kennedy says that isn’t near enough for “schools to succeed”, which begs the question of what is enough? Fed spending on education has risen by 50+ percent since Bush took office. What IS enough? A doubling of the fed spending every 5 years? OR would that not still be enough?

Also, in light of the fact that we aren’t spending nearly enough on education in Democrats’ opinions, how can we take seriously their calls for fiscal discipline? We’ve targeted a major priority in education, spent a ton of money there, then they say it isn’t enough? Which is what they’ve said about nearly every item that comes along. And they’re posing as the party of fiscal discipline? I don’t think so.

Then there’s the angle that the AP got a huge part of the article wrong in calling Kennedy “a key backer of the law.” He WROTE the law. He was all smiles when President Bush said that he’d written “a good law.” But now he’s just a “key backer of the law”?

It’s hard to take this reporter seriously and it’s impossible to take Ted Kennedy seriously.

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRing

This entry was posted on Monday, January 9th, 2006 at 2:59 pm and is filed under Author: Gary Gross, Education, Liberals, Special Interests, W. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.