no joke. doesn't look like anyone's called attention to this, so i thought i would point it out, because it's just so sweet. with everything that's been going on, i don't wnat you to miss the following two developments. courtesy of the new york times.
Utah House Rebukes Bush With Its Vote on School Law
In a rebuke to the Bush administration, the Utah House voted yesterday to prohibit the state's education authorities from using any local money to comply with the president's signature education law, No Child Left Behind.
The vote, by a Republican-dominated chamber, comes after weeks of criticism by lawmakers arguing that the federal education measure impinges on the state's right to set its own education agenda and that the cost of compliance would be too high.
Utah's defiance is the most politically embarrassing challenge by any state so far...
why does utah hate america?
but it gets better...
... when this little turkee comes home to roost:
Service Chiefs Challenge White House on the Budget
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- In an unusual public display of differences with the White House, the top officers of the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force all raised questions on Tuesday about how the Bush administration plans to pay for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan after the current financing runs out at the end of September.
Appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, three of the four chiefs of the armed services expressed concerns about a financing gap, perhaps of four months, for the two missions, whose combined cost is about $5 billion a month.
They were left out of President Bush's budget request for the 2005 fiscal year...
why do the joint chiefs hate america???
can you say tipping point? i thought you could.