Anybody remember when Kentucky had an education governor? Yeah, good times.
You might have noticed the governor we've got isn't so much. Matt doesn't seem to like public schools at all. Unlike most of us, it appears he never attended one.
If he did, looks like he's holding a grudge. Probably a science teacher who told him the sun doesn't circle his head.
Governor Granite proposes to accelerate Kentucky's race to the bottom by cutting education funding across the board in his latest budget. He wants to cut funding completely to 44 education related programs.
Who needs textbooks? Or busses? Or teachers?
But don't think Matt dislikes all education. He really likes 2 kinds of schools: the charter schools his friends can make lots of money from and the christian schools that teach Jesus rode a Tyrannasaurus to young Republicans meetings.
Matt seems to believe the only education the state should provide is job training and religious instruction. Which is exactly what you'd expect from a guy with a BA in East Asian Studies.
Some might call that ironic. Others might call it hypocritical. You'd both be right. Let's call it hypocronic.
The real reason the Governor doesn't like education is because an educated electorate will end his political career.
There's some might say I'm being unfair, that I don't know the governor's heart. I beg to differ. What's in his heart is pretty clear.
He's promised to strip medicaid benefits from a half million Kentuckians if the court blocks him from cutting benefits to a few thousand. Spite is what is in his heart, not the teachings of the guy he claims to follow.
The guy our governor is actually following is the orange in the oval office. That's the guy who said he'd shut the government down over immigration and then he did it.
That's the guy who's rounding up people who have been in this country for decades, who have been educated in our schools, who have served our country, who have been contributing members of our society, and is sending them to a country they never knew, away from their families and home.
Then he'll stand around with a bunch of prosperity snake-oil salesman and talk about our American Christian nation.
There's one thing I'm sure of. No matter what you call yourself, if you are for taking away innocent people's health insurance or sending Dreamers off, Christian and American are the two last things you are.
I can't say what the first thing you are is, but hypocronic would be in the first five.
Finally, I'd like to call attention to an American hero. U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth, from Illinois, will become the first sitting senator to give birth in office.
Senator Duckworth lost both legs as a helicoptor pilot in the Iraq War. The fact she actually served her country makes her about ten times more credible than the majority in DC when it comes to military affairs.
Which is why her words to the Fraudster in Chief this past weekend were perfect and why there is hope in our nation's capital. I just wish I'd come up with Cadet Bone Spurs.