Jeb pouts in 'Voucher Crashers'

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Jeb pouts in 'Voucher Crashers'
By Randy Schultz

Palm Beach Post Editor of the Editorial Page

Sunday, January 08, 2006

During Gov. Bush's campaign in 1998, he claimed that vouchers weren't a big part of his education plan. Now, the governor may spend his last year in office campaigning to make vouchers part of the Florida Constitution.

One of the best scenes in the hilarious movie Wedding Crashers shows Isla Fisher, in the role of the treasury secretary's daughter, throwing a temper tantrum. She scrunches up her face, swings her arms and stomps her feet. It's funny because she's a grown woman acting like a little kid.

Gov. Bush acted much the same way on Thursday after the Florida Supreme Court, in a decision that everyone but he and his delusional aides saw coming, ruled that Gov. Bush's system of vouchers is unconstitutional. He fumed about the public school "monopoly." He railed against the court — except, of course, the two justices he appointed. They backed the illegal voucher program.

It was familiar petulance. The governor shows it each time he is challenged. He blew up six years ago when two African-American legislators staged a sit-in to protest his policies toward minorities. He pouted when court after court ruled against him in the Terri Schiavo case. When environmental groups sued to block the Mecca Farms site for The Scripps Research Institute, the governor called them "legal terrorists." It is the arrogance of an ideologue who thinks he's never wrong.


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[TaleWgnDg]

1. Aaaaahhhhh, but the cameras! The attention. And the votes! Both

brothers Bush know how to work and ploy the people, be it in Florida or in Texas, now across America. Bless em, huh? For they spread their ignorance-is-okay like manure. John Ellis (JEB) Bush and his 1/2-witted brother George Walker Bush are two peas in a pod sowing the seeds of ignorance.

Indeed.

Quite frankly, these two would bend their politics which ever way the wind blew, all for power. Most neo-cons would do likewise.

[Demeter]

2. Public Education Is A Public Service--Not A Monopoly

and you are not obliged to participate. You are, however, obliged to pay taxes.