The conservative sphere is upset with President Obama concerning the DC voucher situation.
Malkin, with rally details.
Veronique de Rugy at The Corner with thoughts.
Julie Mason at the Washington Examiner and Nick Gillespie at Reason note the First Lady visiting a charter school.
Matt Moon at The Next Right has a post up:
“We all know the why vouchers are good, and we all know the arguments for school choice. Yet, “voucher” seems to be one of the only words coming out of the Right when it comes to education policy. President Obama has already made clear what his policy goals are for energy and health care: cap-and-trade and universal government-mandated coverage, respectively. But he hasn’t outlined his plans on education. Now would be a good time for Republicans to get out in front of the President and present him, and voters, with common sense principles and policies on education reform.”
I here crickets on the left at the moment. If I find more posts, I’ll put ‘em up.
UPDATE #1: At The Corner, we have Michael Petrilli’s post in its entirety:
“While it’s welcome news that President Obama will request funding to keep the D.C. voucher program’s scholarship recipients in private schools through high-school graduation, it will amount to nothing more than a cheap p.r. stunt unless he also promises to veto any appropriations bill that kills the program outright. Congress is unlikely to follow his wishes unless the President makes it clear that this is a priority for him. But really, what are the chances of that?”
UPDATE #2: Mary Katherine Ham at The Weekly Standard has pictures from today’s rally.
UPDATE #3: Dan Lips at the Corner.
UPDATE #4: Jennifer Rubin at Commentary:
“If the sight of neatly attired inner city kids with homemade signs isn’t bad enough, consider the policy. Something is seriously wrong when the White House, the Education Secretary, and Congress are willing to end an effective program in the barren wasteland of D.C. education and throw poor, inner city families overboard just to avoid incurring the wrath of the teachers’ union. D.C. Mayor Fenty knows which side he is on. How long before the president figures out which side he should be on? One would think that as a former community organizer he’d be moved by such a passionate protest against injustice in his own community.”
UPDATE #5: More from Gillespie. And as Balloon Juice goes to war against Reason, we will give you both sides of the battlefield. Here’s John Cole responding to Gillespie, not on Vouchers, but on Gillespie’s feelings about Obama.
UPDATE #6: Another, earlier piece from Reason.
And Joe Klein in Swampland.
UPDATE #7: Megan McArdle
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