Beth Reinhard The Miami Herald

October 17, 2009

Beth Reinhard
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693

RE: Public schools, vouchers, and the bifurcation of modern American Liberal politicians as not told by you in your column this morning in the Miami Herald.

Ms. Reinhard,

Why are modern American Liberals in general and Democratic politicians in particular big fans of chiropractors?

Simple.

Their public stand on many issues comes with a huge price tag. One of the physical manifestations of the cognitive dissonance required of all card carrying mALs is reflected by the yelp of “Oh, my aching back”.

Let me give you some examples.

Deficits under a Republican President were bad. Deficits under a Democratic President are good.

Congressional Democrats wanted to fight in Afghanistan when Bush was President. Now, they’re not so sure. Congresschick Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said in February that all that was needed to win in Afghanistan were some “adjustments”. The suggested “adjustment” calls for 40,000 more troops. “Gulp”, said Debbie Debbie, as she hit the speed dial number for her universal option chiropractor.

The one sure fire way to make those discs contract and expand simultaneously is to talk about public schools. It’s like jabbing a flat head screw driver into the sciatic nerve.

One of my Hoy Grail goals is to find a Kennedy child, any Kennedy child, in this century or the last to attend a public grammar school or a public high school. I know it’s Quixotic but still I carry on.

Senator Gelber proudly proclaims that his children go to the same public school that he did. When he was thinking of running for the United States Senate I wrote to tell him that he had a chance to be a true pioneer of public education.

If he had made a campaign promise that, should he win, he would enroll all his children in the really fine public schools in Washington, DC he would have earned my praise. Not my vote; just my praise.

How about a law mandating that the children of elected officials must attend public schools?

Bill and Hillary’s kid went to private school.

Alpha and Thumper Gump sent all the baby Gumpsters to private schools.

President BO and his lovely lady spend more than $1,000 a week to keep their daughters out of the DC public schools.

The aforementioned Little Debbie sends her kids to a private school that is so snooty that the basketball coach drives a Bentley.

I know it’s hard to believe but President George W. Bush sent his daughters to a public high school. Honest. You could look it up. It was Westlake High School in Austin, TX.

We can add the term “hypocritical smarmy bastard” to all the crook back pols who loudly proclaim their love for public education. Send their kids there? You must be joking.

I don’t know if you have kids.

If you do are they going to go to public schools?

If not, why not?






Kevin Smith