Golly, Gee Willikers Bush, what a mess your trusted advisors have made. Those poor little kids in your privatized schools are unable to read at their grade. In two thousand and one you proclaimed that the "cornerstone of my [wonderful] administration" Was "No Child Left Behind", a key plank of which would be charter school privatization. But golly, Gee Willikers, what the hell happened? Their scores are apparently worse. Like that war in Iraq and the net loss of jobs, are you laboring under a curse? Was it Katherine Harris, Judge Sanders-Saul, or your nanny-of-choice, Karen Hughes? Or Rummy-the-Dummy, Wolfowitz-of-Arabia, or Abu-Ghraib-Ashcroft's abuse? Nothing seems to go right, though you came to the fight knowing little or nothing at all. Your slate was so clean that few had forseen you could touch much less handle the ball. But you did, and fouled out, not just once or twice, yet they're always restarting the game. Your advisors are wrong. As we've said all along, you couldn't be solely to blame. Bob Carlson |