PHILADELPHIA - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's criticism of President Bush's education record drew a rebuke Thursday from an unlikely source — Vice President Dick Cheney's wife.
(Lynne Cheney) picked up the Bush re-election team's charge that Kerry often takes both sides of an issue. She noted the Massachusetts senator's vote for the president's No Child Left Behind education initiative, which he now criticizes.
"Certainly it's hard to come up with a satisfying explanation for his change of heart about No Child Left Behind," she said. "Maybe it's simply this: When you run for president against an incumbent, it's really hard to say, 'Good job, Mr. President.'"
(Or...)Kerry says the Bush administration has broken the promise of No Child Left Behind by
failing to adequately fund it. He said he would raise $200 billion to improve education by repealing Bush's tax breaks for those earning more than $200,000 a year.
Lynne Cheney responded that "money is not the be-all and end-all in education."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=5&u=/ap/kerryA f'n plus for you, Mrs. Cheney! Adequate funding doesn't guarantee a quality education...therefore...who needs adequate funding!?! I say tax breaks for all!!!
(In proper proportion, of course. Ordinary shlubs don't need Mrs. Cheney's $88,000 break - they'd just waste it on education and health care...)
"Mrs. Cheney, I'm crushing your head! What do you say now, flathead?"