Republican Sanity

Nice of them to speak out today, but they'll be back to being insane by Sunday.

Your post here is a little confusing Joe...I had to read it a number of times before I realized you WEREN'T talking about their position on the Republican school boycott being dangerous and wrong...instead saying you agreed with them on this subject.

Maybe I'm just a little dense, but I suspect others are having the same problem.

This latest "outrage" from the Republicans is driving me crazy...there's NO subject they can't work themselves into a hissy fit rage about when it concerns Obama, no matter how benign!

Too late, Joe, the inmates have already taken over that asylum.

They think hard about the positions they take, deal in some version of the facts--although I find their conclusions dangerous and wrong--and therefore live on the same planet I do.
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Yes, they live on "Planet Village", which is why Joe Klein accepts them as Serious people.

see. this happens every time. no matter the poisonous things they say on tv, they just gonna one (relatively) nice thing for people to start praising them. no consequences. joe, you just keep disappointing me every time.

I think Republican beliefs like considering super-processed Ketchup as a vegetable, or that removing the brain damaging lead (Pb) from water coolers and faucets at schools interferes in the free-market's ability to sell us junky, leaded products, "indoctrinates" (read: makes them stupid) more students than anything old Barry Hussein says will.

I feel sorry for the kids who have parents who politicise the President's speech to school children about study and play and much else. How do kids cope in a Republican nut house?

Because 2 or 3 individual Republicans demonstrate a faint degree of "sanity" does not indicate a semblance of *Republican* sanity. Where are Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Eric Cantor, etc. on this issue? They're silent. Silence is acceptance, and the contemporary Republican Party is totally accepting of this intolerable, disgusting lunacy. It serves their depraved purpose of de-legitimizing and marginalizing the president. They are beyond redemption. The problem is that the country needs an Obama education speech more than ever. We have descended into the utter depths of dumbness. As Mencken said, "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." Truer today than ever.

Where were the sane liberals when Gephardt melted down in 1991 when Bush was doing this. A Dean-esque tirade about paid political announcement.

The difference- the liberals NEVER showed a moment of sanity

I was listening to a HC town hall meeting yesterday and a someone asked "why is America the only country on the planet that protests improving health care for it's citizens, and cleaning up the environment?" Now we can add protests for staying in school and studying to that list.

What's happening in our country proves both that Democrats have far fewer looneys than the Republicans and that the MSM is biased against Dems (or feel pushed to show that they are not liberal by giving Republicans more favorable coverage overall).

Let's compare 2001 with 2009. We had a president who did not win the majority vote and who was put into office sooner than might (or might not) have happened if the recount vote had not been suspended in Florida.

Sure there were some on the left and Dems in general who were hopping mad. And I'm not saying there were not conspiracy theories (or basically just accusations that the SCotUS decision was based on politics) abounding in Dem circles.

But did we see town halls populated by Dem congress members exhorting citizens to not recognise Bush as president? Did we have months and months of angry protest meetings where Dems called Bush a commie and a Nazi?

No. The fact that Bush was accepted so quickly is very much due to Dems putting their country ahead of party politics. If we had not been willing to let the matter drop, I think the country would have been deeply divided by the time that 9/11 occurred.

Of course that is presuming that MSM would actually have covered any Dem unrest and protest meetings.

The text books and Teachers exposing liberal ideals is rampant in our schools. This is a fact more so now than ever before.

What you are seeing finally are Republicans who say "enough is enough". Spread your liberal garbage someplace else, but not into the minds of my children.

If the shoe was on the other foot, and it was a Republican out speaking in the schools about "Creationism", the liberals would be foaming at the mouth like rabid dogs.

"Write a letter on how you can help me as President".

Why not have children write letters to Obama asking him to be the "Public Servant" he is supposed to be, and ask him how he will change the Education system so we are competitive with the other industrialized countries, Japan, India, Korea, etc.

Why not ask the President what HE is going to do to stop the further decline in our education outcomes for our children?

Why not ask the President to FIRE incompetent and lazy teachers in the education systems?

Why not ask the President to set standards that ALL teachers must meet, and discontinue the practice of "tenure" for life.

Why not ask the President how he will hold Teachers, Administrative Superintendents and other Educational staff accountable for the education of our children.

When you do that Mr President, by all means ask my children how they can help you.

Republican Sanity : This is an oxymoron from the start!! The folks that Klein mentions at the outset of his 'blast' are but a small subset of the lunacy fringe...They are everywhere and Klein seems to be comfortable in their midst..

Limbaugh has spent over 20 years building a huge market for this unbridled craziness -- and we live in a market-driven culture.

freeinpa,
So what is your opinion: is Obama trying to indoctrinate America's youth is a massive Orwellian Socialist experiment, or is he doing this to score political points? One response will earn you and other conservatives some grudging respect, and would allow us all to agree that, regardless of political party, there are many sane, rational Americans left. The other response will mean the slow destruction of our country and way of life at the hands of a vast majority of bloody stupid morons. So which do you really believe?

This backlash is ridiculous. Respect for our elected officials has hit an all time low. Who can argue against the President welcoming children back to school and urging them to succeed in the classroom? For all those believing the misinformation spread by fear mongers read the White House official press release:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/mediaresources/

As for the creationist comment above. The Supreme Court has ruled that teaching creationism in Public Schools is unconstitutional. I'd hope that parent's who embrace science would balk at a President showing religious preference in a public school by endorsing neocreationism, i.e. intelligent design, which is arguably a Christian theory. Maybe all these crazies should just home-school their kids and give some relief to tax payers.

It appears that the people who didn't want their children to have to see a single black person at school in the 1960's are still on the same routine.

[...] Joe Klein of TIME notes that many Republicans, including Mr. Scarbrough, David Frum and John Podhoretz are speaking out against the proposed [...]

Honestly, parents trying to stop their kids from listening to the President's speech is probably the only thing that'd make kids pay attention to it...

When will the MSM stop pretending that the current Republican party is a rational entity whose policy positions need to be taken seriously?

This state of affairs where Obama, The President, addressing students becomes a hot button political issue, is unacceptable. Discourse about this planned address is absurd and bordering on becoming all out bedlam because Obama has NOT done anything strong and sustained to address the unwarranted and continuing attacks by some right wingers.

Yes, this is a democracy and we can speak out against the officers in power however it must not be some absurd outcry over any and everything.

The Obama administration should call it out as it is and soon! It is a hysterical group of desperate Republicans doing all they can to discredit the party in power so they can regroup their fractured and "directionless" party.
Yet, the White House seems eerily silent on the matter, preferring instead to allow the “airwaves” be ruled by orchestrated hysteria.

What next? Is Glenn Beck going to release a list of “Communists” and “Communist sympathizers” in the Obama administration.

This is absolutely ridiculous. The mere debate of this issue is an outrage.

http://theblindspotsofgod.wordpress.com/

From a terrific Op-Ed in the NYT earlier this week about the way FDR governed:

Roosevelt relished the opposition of vested interests. He fashioned his governing majority by deliberately attacking those who favored the status quo. His opponents hated him — and he profited from their hatred. “Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today,” he told a national radio audience on the eve of the 1936 election. “They are unanimous in their hatred for me — and I welcome their hatred.”

Here is an excellent article that explains why parents SHOULD oppose Obama's speech:

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/04/why-parents-don%e2%80%99t-trust-the-educator-in-chief-and-his-comrades/

A few other tidbits to back up my assertions:

I'm sure THIS teacher won't participate in blatant Obama propaganda... oh yeah, right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDEAYgm0Dv8&feature=related

Obama and Co follow to a tee the "Ideological Subversion" tactics of the KGB: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/from_russia_with_no_love.html

Van Jones, need I say more?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOgmwyfKuL8

Star-studded "I Pledge to serve Barack Obama" (don't miss the last minute!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcPA1ysSbw

Obama (shhhhh) signs up NEA to create propaganda:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCgQbuGXSrA

Call me crazy if you want, but do NOT try to tell me that this marxist and his radical left teachers union and dept of edu do not have an ulterior motive in mind!

My kids are off limits.

painesright

You're not crazy, you're just seriously misinformed. My sympathies.

So here is Republican Presidential Candidate Tim Pawlenty believing this stuff: http://is.gd/2SZ35
He further implies that since Obama asks kids to write to him, he is planning on doing something nefarious with the addresses he collects:
"There are going to be questions about -- well, what are they are going to do with those names and is that for the purpose of a mailing list?"
This is just batsh*t crazy.
If we had a real journalists, Pawlenty would be peppered about this insanity in a very mocking tone every time he tried to get himself some press. Instead, the Time Magazine's of the world will still kiss the guy's you know what and pretend he is a respectable person.
Can you honestly say that someone who is willing to spout crazy conspiracies for the biggest paper in his state, like implying the president of the U.S is sinisterly collecting information from the letters he gets from 4th graders (recruits for his secret army???), is any less crazy than that Van Jones guy who signed a petition once?
No, the crazy person is going to run for President, and the other guy is going to be forced to resign because he is too controversial.