Notes For Wednesday, November 20, 2002

You've gotta love this headline: "Bush stumped over how to cap class sizes". I can't resist beating this dead horse, but isn't that precisely what Bush should have been asked BEFORE the election, say, by Tim Russert? I mean, McBride essentially lost the election by being "stumped" on how to pay for the class size amendment, yet Bush was given a free pass. During the campaign, we reported the incessant media criticism of McBride for not explaining how He would pay for the class size amendment and how Bush's failure to explain the same thing was a nonissue as far as the media was concerned; in our humble opinion, this criticism of McBride - which played into the Fla GOP Bush strategy - was the central reason McBride lost. [read]
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