NCLB getting hit again by Republicans

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Wednesday February 11, 2004 · 2:19 PM PST

2004/02/11 · 14:19

Now Utah is getting into the act

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.

When Republican States like VA, and especially UT are against Bush's biggest domestic policy you know Bush will definately not bring up anything but security, taxes and most importantly the smearing of the opposition.

A not very well thought out ramble

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Saturday January 31, 2004 · 12:36 AM PST

2004/01/31 · 00:36

This is a bit rambling, but if you have any free time and like to be confused by convoluted and not very well thought out ideas than this is the place for you:

It seems a lot of people think one of Dean's contributions / potential contributions is trying to stop the Democratic leadership from giving into to Bush's push to the right (ok the push to the right started with Reagan).

If you want an analogy look at the Republican Party post 1932 and compare it to the Democrats post 1980. Read More

Why campaign money isn't as important right now.

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Wednesday January 28, 2004 · 2:48 AM PST

2004/01/28 · 02:48

I don't know what the numbers are for the money, but all of the money arguments of how Kerry and Edwards don't have enough are based on a history that isn't as relevant as one might hope (IMO). Read More

Anti-NCLB is gaining support

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Saturday January 24, 2004 · 5:47 PM PST

2004/01/24 · 17:47

"The Republican-controlled Virginia House of Delegates sharply criticized President Bush's signature education program Friday, calling the No Child Left Behind Act an unfunded mandate that threatens to undermine the state's own efforts to improve students' performance."

Actions like these will be great for the dem. nominee claiming there is bipartisian agreement that one of Bush's "biggest" domesitc policies is hurting the very programs it claims to help.

I really think focusing on how Bush has hurt states will be an important issue, because it has support from across the political spectrum.

Is Edwards going after the Lieberman crowd?

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Thursday January 22, 2004 · 8:39 PM PST

2004/01/22 · 20:39

One of the biggest boosts Edwards got in IA seems to be how many votes he picked up from supporters of non-viable candidates. In a primary you don't get a trial run to determine if your candidate is viable so you have to decide ahead of time whether your candidate is viable and whether or not that really matters to you. Read More

Why are people so set on having a set candidate?

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Wednesday January 21, 2004 · 1:23 AM PST

2004/01/21 · 01:23

Maybe I'm not getting an accurate picture of what is happening, but I'm amazed by this sudden rush of people away from Dean. Whay are people so set on changing who they support? There are only three reasons in my opion to have "A Candidate":

You want to give money, so you have to decide who to give it to,
You want to work on a campaign to over throw Bush so you have to decide who to help,
You're about to vote.

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Tuesday January 20, 2004 · 10:59 PM PST

2004/01/20 · 22:59

When this race started I planned on backing Dean and than backing someone else after Dean failed to make it to the WA caucus. I used to live in VT and I thought Dean did a good job getting things passed that improved VT (health coverage for children and success by six were two of the bigger ones for me). In the beginning I suspected I would switch to Kerry. Since then Kerry has really unimpressed me. I will still happily vote for him in Nov, but I would happily vote for almost anyone with a chance of beating Bush. Read More

My problems with Clark's Reagan/Nixon votes

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Thursday January 15, 2004 · 8:45 PM PST

2004/01/15 · 20:45

When I first heard of Clark's voting past I agreed with Michael - hell, a lot of people voted for Reagan and Nixon and it would be nice if some of them voted Dem. this time around. Recently I've begun to change my mind. While still think Dean's attack that Clark is a Republican is stupid, I am worried about Clark's Presidential votes.
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