Tea Party Attacked By Democrats For Education Reform

Joe Williams of the Democrats For Education Reform attacks the Tea Party:

Throw the Tea-Baggers under the bus: If you don’t do it for issues of substance, do it for the politics alone.

In 2000, George W. Bush did very well with Hispanics and other emerging voting blocs when he included education as part of his “compassionate conservative” platform. Remember that issues that Republicans claim to support - including school choice - are/can be enabled by the same government that the Tea Party wants to bring to its knees. Speaker Dennis Hastert, like Bush, made a decision at the start of the NCLB process that he was not even going to try to get the votes of arch-conservatives (who would now be called tea-baggers) because he knew that any role for the feds at all with these folks would be considered too much.

The Tea Party is holding you guys back, man!

Joe Williams probably doesn't understand that Republicans control the House of Representatives due to the Tea Party. Republicans haven't had that many House seats since 1928. Tea Party holding Republicans back? Back from what? Anyway, patriotic Americans who believe in constitutional government believe in separating education from state.