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Subscribe to RSS*** Thursday’s “Daily Rundown” line-up: Fmr. Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) with a Deep Dive into what the president can do with our without the help of Congress… Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Republican messaging and combatting messengers… Plus Politico’s Jonathan Martin, the Chicago Tribune’s Clarence Page and former Bush White House Political Director Sara Taylor Fagen in the Gaggle.
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Will TeaPeople Rep Marsha Blackburn vote for VAWA. Will she vote for the Fair Pay Act?
Heck, she's a TeaPeople.....my guess is that she will say, NO to both.....women are irrevelant, and therefore she proves it with HER votes!
Blackburn is a woman hater!
Is Marsha Blackburn the blonde-ish lady scowling during the President's SOTU vote, that the cameras kept focusing on? If that's the lady, my guess is no. Tea People put Party before helping battered women. After all, they weren't elected to make this a better country, they were elected to protect the interests of the 1%.
OK, I just googled Marsha Blackburn, and she's blonde, but I don't think she's the scowly-faced lady I saw at the SOTU speech, anyone know who that woman is? She keeps popping up lately next to the Republican leaders, I guess to prove there are some women in their Party.
You're right Amy.
Rogers and Blackburn are both right-wing ideologues. Boehner uses them both. Rogers always looks nervous standing next to Boehner as he spews his garbage. Blackburn sticks to the 'talking points' nonsense!
They betray women with their right-wing votes. They have no courage to stand up in support of womens rights on any level.
Marsha Blackburn and Rogers just do what the old white men tell them to say and what to do. If you've ever watch Blackburn in an interview she never answers a question ask of her, she just rambles on with the republican taking points, she won't shut up till she finishes with her talking points.
Oh boy, there are no ideologues in the Democrip party either. Where was that yellow brick road?
Amazing that she never seems to take a breath. She must have passed the 'right-wing' class of non-stop talking with flying colors!
Blackburn is like a wined up doll, once she starts talking she doesn't stop till she winds down. That's what the old white men in the GOP like about her. She says exactly what they want her to say. I think it's because she's not vary smart and if she got off what she'd memorized she'd get confused, kind of like Romney and Rubio do.
On pre-school intervention/opportunities, Sen Blackburn got it all wrong. Not that teachers want intervention on any part, they have too much already with the inanity of standardized testing which precludes learning, but she ignored the benefits pre-school attention provides for students. Where it currently takes place, the results are a proven success. She's simply a politician who thinks she knows teaching; like a banker doing surgery, she demonstrated ignorance. The truth is that kids with early exposure to schools do better. That's been proven many times. Some schools with half day kindergardens, without adding staff, have used the other half day for pre-schoolers. This may be more a more effective approach to learning than having full day kindergartens, which are emotionally and physically tiring for the students, and no funding for preschool programs. Would it cost more? There would be a cost, but it might be off set by less spending for head start programs, and in the future, remedial education in the higher grades. Besides, what's all the concern for student performance about? Lip service? Does educaton matter? It doesn't in PA where Corbett reduced spending in education by $2 billion in 2 years costing 20,000 education jobs while giving the gas corporations carte blanche practically free access to gas. We know the GOP priorities, and it's not in education. Few have proven otherwise.
Luckily, here in San Antonio, thanks to our wonderful Mayor Julian Castro, a wonderful measure was voted on and passed last year.....PreK4SA........
It gives youngsters a great start at education!
It no doubt chapped Gov Oops hide, since he had slashed education/teacher funding statewide!
"The truth is that kids with early exposure to schools do better. That's been proven many times."
That is not true. A recent study, hidden by federal bureaucrats at Head Start, showed that the 120 billion spent on Head Start since the 1960s has been a demonstrable failure, as there is no appreciable benefit shown by Head Start students when they move on to elementary school..
But liberals really dont care about results in education, it is abut hiring more liberal bureacrats and spending taxpayers money...
GOP Comeback 2014 posts :
Hidden, but you, you found it?
Care to share that study/link with us liberals?
That study/link was formed in GOP Comeback's head. He's one of those republicans who make things up and hope no one will notice. His next post will be, "well I have access to things nobody else has access to". He's right, only he has access to what's in that warped little mind of his.
That's too funny, Mo!
Guess he's trying to get clearance from the higher ups to see if he can release the 'hidden' study!
Good Grief!
I have a son with serious developmental disabilities. You want kids like him into the school system as early as you can get them there. Early intervention is crucial, early identification of needs is even MORE crucial. You want these kids modeling on their peer group, becoming a part of the "gang" and with the specialized interventions that come with the professionals available in the schools.
This is a no brainer. Except to the brainless and souless who want every pregnancy to come to term, but condemn the children when they are really children.
newday.......
The TeaPeople keep proving daily that they are not the party of 'pro-life'.
They are the party of pro-birth...after that they do not care.
I hope that your son is getting all the care that he needs to have a happy and successful life.
Thank you chilled. You have it exactly right. GOP is the party of pro birth, not pro children.
My son is able to live in an apartment with some supportive services and works in an enclave (supported employment.) Given the level of his disability, which includes mental illness, he does quite well. He likes to come to the farm to ride the horses and see the dogs.
Sweet newday.....absolutely sweet.
chilled and Mo... this is for you.
Too bad you progressive zombies only follow your propoganda networks..you ought to look at some facts once in a while.
The HHS-sponsored study was released in January 2010 to relatively little notice, but the report's findings are startling: the positive effects Head Start has on children (which are mild to begin with) simply vanish by the children's first year of school. Head Start kids are no better off than those not in the program, but taxpayers are billions poorer.
To grasp the scope of this program's profligacy, compare the federal government's attempts at early-childhood education to its efforts to send men to the moon: Head Start has actually cost more ($170 billion to $145 billion) than the Apollo program.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/02/head_start_can_a_failed_program_ever_be_killed.html#ixzz2KtrPycD5
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Progressive zombies? Really GOP will never comeback?
When I saw the sources you all were quoting, I knew there was a fix in somewhere. So I went (GASP) to the source, the HHS study that is published on line.
As is the usual, the nutcases on the right took one bit of information from one table, and there are a bunch of them and ignored anything they did want to see.
Quoting from the HHS study on Head Start: we find this: "at the end of third grade, the most striking subgroup finding was related to children from high risk households. For this subgroup, children in the 3 year old cohort demonstrated sustained cognitive impact across all the years from Pre-K to 3rd grade."
The HHS report also references other studies that find life long gains for Head Start participants in school attainment, earnings and crime reductions, for example Garces, Thomas and Carrie, 2000.
The people you quote did the usual Republican magic math. They started out with the outcome they wanted to report on, and then found a blip to support it.
I suggest you take the time to read the tables, and you will find that Head Start does meet its goal of school readiness.
And I meet and exceed my self imposed goal of being to work before noon everyday. By about 6 hours.
That aside, thanks for the info. I gotta check it out. : )
Do check it out, Talk to the Hand. The complete study is on line, and takes a long time to read through and study.
I have been wanting to mention to you that I have enjoyed your posts lately. Far more civil, a bit of fun and less attacking. Perhaps we can chat more.
Talk (not)
Anyway......Absolutely beautiful weather here today, so I left the keyboard and enjoyed some wonderful February sunshine for a few hours.
Meanwhile, back to the blog.....I did check out your references, 2 were blogs and the other NYPost.....suspect sources.
The aim of their stats, seems to be discredit (as usual) the federal program, but privatize it. Send the federal money to, well, whomever and let them take over PreK.
Can't remember which one of your sources, but that is the agenda......
Great another program that we can't pay for. Why do people even have children if they don't want to be with them? Lets get them out of our houses as young as we can, and act like it's because we want them to get a head start on education. Just hand them over to the state at birth and you can skip the whole diaper phase.
If you really want better education, stop protecting bad teachers with unions so that you can hire better teachers.
Sane after a nonsensical post like this, you need to change you moniker to Insane.
Obviously we need more abortions...
Waterlogged MSNBC are wetting themselves....
Rubio water-swig replay tally: MSNBC in first place with 155, CNN a distant second with 34 ...
Surely today's propaganda programming from MSNBC can double that total....