Are Dems This Bad? Probably.

Had to include this quote, just because I thought it was funny.

Democrats seeking to boost voter turnout this fall are beginning to sound like the late comedian Chris Farley's portrayal of a "motivational speaker" on Saturday Night Live. Farley's character sought to inspire young people by announcing that they wouldn't amount to "jack squat" and would someday be "living in a van down by the river."

From WJS, link here

This next paragraph follows:

Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, who prefers sailing vessels to vans by the river, recently tried out the Farley method. Said Mr. Kerry, "We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what's happening." Bay State voters are surely thrilled to be represented by a man so respectful of their concerns.

 It's not possible their policies and ideas are rejected by the voters.  No, that can't be it.  It's that the voters are idiots.  Yeah, that's the ticket.

What Our Education System Needs is More Money!

Pretty powerful stuff here:

In 2008-2009, the  District of Columbia spent $1.3 billion dollars on 45,858 students. That is slightly less than the entire GDP of Belize. In 2007, 8 percent of DC eighth graders were able to do math at the eighth grade level. Clearly what’s needed is more money!

Jonah Goldberg laying the wood over at NRO.  Here's some more:

And yet when you listen to these endless seminars and interviews on NBC and its various platforms, I never seem to hear Matt Lauer or David Gregory ask “Isn’t the education crisis a failure of liberalism?” After all, liberals insist all social problems can be reduced to root causes. Well, they’ve been in charge of the roots for generations and look at the mess they’ve made. Look at it.

Recent stuff I found very interesting.

The quote from this lady is amazing to me.  I suppose my opinion might change if I were in her shoes, but still:

"Quite frankly, I don't care about the deficit," says Ms. Mueller-Holden. "It's going to take years upon years upon years to pay this all back," she says, so it's better to focus on job growth now and deal with the deficit later. 

How does taking all the Fed money/welfare help job growth now?  I still can't believe that people bought the "Stimulus".

See the full article here .

ALSO:

The gift that keeps on giving.  How much more of this junk is in that bill?  Just brutal.

Democrats tucked the 1099 reporting footnote into the bill to raise an estimated $17.1 billion, part of the effort to claim that ObamaCare reduces the deficit by $100 billion or so.

 This is in the health care bill.  I guess you just keep passing stuff and hope nobody notices.  Of course, then why should people comply?

See that article here.