If it came from the Obama admin Republicans will hate it. I do think Obama should tell people why they should not eat yellow snow to see the Republicans eat it. Such conservatives still exist. William Bennett, President Reagan’s secretary of education and now a stalwart of right-wing radio, has defended the Common Core. So has Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor who is a favorite of religious conservatives. Several Republican governors (including Jindal, though he seems to be wobbling) have stood by the Common Core. Conservative-leaning think tanks like the Manhattan Institute and the Fordham Institute have published sober, sensible arguments for the standards. But today’s Republican Party lives in terror of its so-called base, the very loud, often paranoid, if-that-Kenyan-socialist-in-the-White-House-is-for-it-I’m-against-it crowd.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 21:06:58 +0000
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