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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on August 07, 2008, 12:25:13 AM
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The three biggest examples of successful bipartisanship in the past decade, the Patriot Act, NCLB and McCain/Feingold are fraught with problems, are all frequently denounced by people from all sides of the political spectrum. Is bipartisanship, therefore a worthy goal?
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I got no problems with the Patriot Act. No clue what NCLB is, and the boat is still out on McCain-Feingold.
And what about FISA?
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Bipartisanship="surrendering your values for political expediency."
It is for wimps.
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I got no problems with the Patriot Act. No clue what NCLB is, and the boat is still out on McCain-Feingold.
And what about FISA?
No Child Left Behind
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The three biggest examples of successful bipartisanship in the past decade, the Patriot Act, NCLB and McCain/Feingold are fraught with problems, are all frequently denounced by people from all sides of the political spectrum. Is bipartisanship, therefore a worthy goal?
I have problems with parts of the Patriot act (I have to jump through hoops to open a bank account but illegal aliens don't and HIPPA o name a few) but its not horrible.
NCLB ? Whats wrong with it ? Carrot & stick if teachers can demonstrate competence.
McCain-Feingold ? Yeah, that was a turkey.
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The three biggest examples of successful bipartisanship in the past decade, the Patriot Act, NCLB and McCain/Feingold are fraught with problems, are all frequently denounced by people from all sides of the political spectrum. Is bipartisanship, therefore a worthy goal?
I have problems with parts of the Patriot act (I have to jump through hoops to open a bank account but illegal aliens don't and HIPPA o name a few) but its not horrible.
NCLB ? Whats wrong with it ? Carrot & stick if teachers can demonstrate competence.
McCain-Feingold ? Yeah, that was a turkey.
Good idea, horrible execution.
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The three biggest examples of successful bipartisanship in the past decade, the Patriot Act, NCLB and McCain/Feingold are fraught with problems, are all frequently denounced by people from all sides of the political spectrum. Is bipartisanship, therefore a worthy goal?
I have problems with parts of the Patriot act (I have to jump through hoops to open a bank account but illegal aliens don't and HIPPA o name a few) but its not horrible.
NCLB ? Whats wrong with it ? Carrot & stick if teachers can demonstrate competence.
McCain-Feingold ? Yeah, that was a turkey.
Good idea, horrible execution.
Government run, it didn't have a chance really. But it DID help show up the teacher unions. They're refusing the money because they're afraid of the strings. Doesn't matter to liberals of course but it does help withthe mushy middle if you make note of it.
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NCLB is almost universally disliked by teachers, even conservative ones, because it attempts to solve a qualitative problem with a more-or-less absolute quantitative solution. Basically the same problem that zero-thought solutions like "Zero tolerance" policies or McNamara's stupid plan to win in Viet Nam based solely on "Metrics" like body count. Nice theory, it just doesn't fit the facts because peoplel do not all have the same potential or capabilities, the differences are not uniformly distributed, and at the end of the line you have to deal with individual teachers and students rather than numbers.
It did, however, call the Dems bluff on "The GOP hates kids" bullshit by giving the Dems all the rope they asked for.