The GOP goes to Main Street
Cantor titled his remarks “Making Life Work,” and they were clearly aimed at Main Street.
He spoke not of educational block grants, but of having federal education “follow children” to schools their parents choose.
In a move reminiscent of presidents’ State of the Union messages since 1982, he brought along Joseph Kelley, who sent his son, Rashawn, and his three daughters to private schools with money from a District of Columbia voucher program that the Obama administration has tried to shut down.
He criticized the Obamacare tax on medical devices by bringing a Baltimore nurse who worked to develop replacement discs for patients with back pain and then needed one herself. She was wearing her cervical collar.
He brought twelve-year-old Katie, from Richmond, who has been treated for cancer almost all of her life, to illustrate Republican support for funding basic medical research.
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They are just idiots. End of story.
Schadenfreude on February 7, 2013 at 5:13 PM
Unrestricted stem cell experimentation will cure everything!
So why we need this other sh*t?
Well … that’s what the left says.
HondaV65 on February 7, 2013 at 5:20 PM
Do the vouchers. The statist have used their government schools to indoctrinate children for generations. And it is finally paying off for them. We need to stop and ultimately reverse that trend if we hope for this country to have a future.
besser tot als rot on February 7, 2013 at 5:21 PM
Yeah right, Cantor and Barone represent Main Street. That’s some thin gruel.
FloatingRock on February 7, 2013 at 5:29 PM
Cantor said yesterday, or at least that’s when I read it, that he supports anchor babies. I don’t think Main Street would agree with Barone that Cantor represents their interests.
FloatingRock on February 7, 2013 at 5:32 PM
Vouchers are one way to split the Dem factions.
Minorities whose kids are in failing pucli schools don’t care about the teachers’ unions pensions and benefits. It’s also one way to split the base from the Dem poltiicians, since so many Dems in Congress send their kids to private and parochial school. Mary Landrieu was once shamed into voting for DC school vouchers when a full page ad was run asking why her kids got to go to private schools, but she didn’t want poorer parents to have that option.
Wethal on February 7, 2013 at 6:12 PM