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Skriven 2007-08-05 22:48:00 av TIM RICHARDSON
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On 08-05-07, ROSS SAUER said to TIM RICHARDSON:


-> RC>Shouda, couda, wouda..
-> RC>But hey, I aint rich and I got a tax cut..


-> RS>How much?


-> A pretty substantial one. Even *you* got a benefit from the tax cut. Why
-> don't you tell us `how much'?


RS>I asked, "How much?"


RS>What is your NET income?


RS>How much of a tax break did you get? In precise numbers?


RS>And don't run away. Again...


Ann Coulter? I'm glad you brought her up:






DID I MISS THE 'HIP' PART?
August 1, 2007


CNN commentators keep telling us how young and hip the audience was for last
week's YouTube Democratic debate, apparently unaware that the camera
occasionally panned across the audience, which was the same oddball
collection of teachers' union shills and welfare recipients you see at all
Democratic gatherings.


Noticeably, Gov. Bill Richardson got the first "woo" of the debate — the
mating call of rotund liberal women — for demanding a federal mandate that
would guarantee public schoolteachers a minimum salary of $40,000.


So much for the "younger, hipper" audience. Maybe CNN meant "hippier," as in,
"My, she's looking a bit hippy these days."


Not counting talking snowmen, the main difference in the YouTube debate
audience and the audience for the earlier CNN Democratic debate is that the
YouTube debate had 173,000 fewer viewers in the 18-49 demographic. So it was
provably not young and, on the basis of casual observation, definitely not
hip.


As usual, the audience consisted mostly of public schoolteachers. According
to CNN, the highest reading achieved on the CNN feelings-knob was for
Richardson talking about public schoolteachers. (Some in the audience said
they hadn't been that excited since the last time they had sex with an
underage student.)


B. Hussein Obama said he was for slavery reparations in many forms, but the
only one that got applause was for more "investment" in schools. In Obama's
defense, the precise question was: "But is African-Americans ever going to
get reparations for slavery?" So a switch to the subject of education was
only natural.


Moreover, a question on reparations has got to be confusing when you're
half-white and half-black. What do you do? Demand an apology for slavery and
money from yourself? I guess biracial reparations would involve sending
yourself money, then sending back a portion of that money to yourself, minus
50 percent in processing fees which is the same way federal aid works.


It was fun to hear the Democratic candidates give heart-rending reasons for
not sending their own kids to public schools. Except John Edwards. He got a
"woo" for sending his kids to public schools from all those "young, hip"
Democrats whose greatest concern is how to transfer more money to public
schoolteachers while reducing their workload.


The candidates all managed to come up with good reasons for sending their
kids to private schools  with extra points for reasons that involved a family
tragedy or emergency — but it didn't seem to occur to any of them that
ordinary families might have good reasons, too.


In her first risible lie of the debate, Hillary said Chelsea went to public
schools in Arkansas. But when they moved to Washington, they were advised
that "if she were to go to a public school, the press would never leave her
alone, because it's a public school. So I had to make a very difficult
decision."


"Unfortunately," she said, it was "good advice."


Was it really that difficult a decision not to send Chelsea to public schools
in Washington, D.C.?


This is how The New York Times recently described the schools in Washington,
which it called "arguably the nation's most dysfunctional school system."


"Though it is one of the country's highest-spending districts, most of the
money goes to central administration, not to classrooms, according to a
recent series of articles in The Washington Post. Its 55,000 mostly poor
students score far worse than comparable children anywhere else in reading
and math, with nearly 74 percent of the district's low-income eighth-graders
lacking basic math skills, compared with the national average of 49 percent."


So Hillary was dying to send Chelsea to the D.C. public schools, but
"unfortunately" did not do so only because of the press? Did she also agonize
over whether to allow Chelsea to play in traffic?


She was not dying to send Chelsea to D.C. public schools. And no Democrat
cares about "education" or "the poor."


Democrats care about social service bureaucrats who make their living
allegedly working on behalf of the poor the famed "public service" the
Democrats always drone on about jobs that would disappear if we ever
eliminated poverty. That's why Democrats keep coming up with policies
designed to create millions and millions more poor people.


Democrats fight tooth and nail against any measures that would actually help
the poor, such as allowing schools to fire bad teachers. They refuse to allow
parents with children in the rotten D.C. public schools to take money out of
the public school system so their kids could go to Sidwell Friends like
Chelsea.


Most important, Democrats resolutely refuse to tell the poor the secret to
not being poor: Keep your knees together until marriage.


That's it. Not class size, not preschool, not even vouchers, though vouchers
would obviously improve the education of all students. You could have
lunatics running the schools  and often do and if the kids live with married
parents, they will end up at good colleges and will lead happy, productive
lives 99 percent of the time.


But Democrats don't care about the poor. They don't care about the children.
They care about government teachers and other government bureaucrats grimy,
dowdy women who "woo" at political debates. Or as CNN calls them, the young,
"hip" crowd.


COPYRIGHT 2007 ANN COULTER



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