Bye bye Betsy? .....(paging Dan Quayle...)

[dixiegrrrrl]

Her first budget proposal for the department — one which would have slashed funding from multiple school programs and reapportioned that money to DeVos’ pet cause, “school choice” — was rejected by Congress. Now, with her agenda on the rocks and morale at the Education Department cratering, some predict that DeVos may return to the private sector sooner than she’d planned.

“She can talk about bureaucracy and how constraining it is for her, but a Republican-controlled Congress rejected her budget proposals.
She can’t fill her senior staff slots. Morale is terrible at the department,” says Thomas Toch of FutureEd —
an education think tank affiliated with Georgetown University’s McCord School of Public Policy.

“And I’ll tell you, in Washington education circles, the conversation is already about the post-DeVos landscape, because the assumption is she won’t stay long. And for my money, I don’t think it would be a bad thing if she left. I think she’s been probably one of the most ineffective people to ever hold the job.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/education-officials-expect-ineffective-betsy-devos-to-step-down-as-her-agenda-collapses-report/

[MontanaMama]

1. So get her the eff out

of there already. Damage is being done.

[lagomorph777]

2. I don't know if I can handle so much good news in one week.

All we need now is catching Stinky Zinke redhanded. He smells like Whitefish.

[Madam45for2923]

3. She needs to be gone already.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. She's obviously already got all of the "important" things done already

Probably what she was put there to do in the first place. Not to say that I don't want her gone but anybody else Trump replaces her with will be equally loathsome (and won't reverse any decisions made by DeVoss). It burns me knowing that Pence had to cast a tie-vote to just get her confirmed by a bare majority of the Republican Senate. THAT alone should have been a sign that she was the wrong nominee for the job, but Republicans.don't.care.

[UTUSN]

5. Sigh. It would have been SO much simpler just to keep the whole cartel OUT in the first place!1

[Blue_Adept]

6. But they want ineffective

[Hortensis]

7. Charles Koch wants to dismantle public education.

And at very least hundreds of metamillionaires and billionaires are with him on this. They resent paying taxes to educate millions of stupid, unworthy drags on society who can hardly do more than read after 12 years of public investment. They "know" the worthy little people will learn to take care of themselves.

If DeVos goes, it'll change nothing, unless her replacement is a more competent barbarian. Some share DeVos's Christian reconstructionism goals, but most can't be bothered destroying society to save souls. They just want a reordered society where the little people are careful to stay out of their way and know better than to demand anything of them. Russia and Iran are actually pretty good examples.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. which is why I am really happy to see all that lobby $$$ wasted.

The scripts are writing themselves..... SO waiting for the movie.
and books
and even more books
about how a moran actually go into the White House, then hired the 3 Stooges and the Marx brothers clones to work with him.

tv...did I mention tv?

[Hortensis]

10. Lol. Me too! Really looking forward to the books.

But prison sentences would be even better. Some of these pathetically ungreat people who've lived their lives arrogantly, and even gleefully and proudly, above the law are protected for some crimes by statutes of imitations, but not for sure not all.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. The appointment of so many completely unqualified

people in this Trump administration is truly breathtaking.

From what little I know about DeVos, I suspect she simply doesn't know very people who could possibly be asked to fill her senior staff slots.

If I were somehow given her job, for which I'm not much more qualified than she is other than I support public education, I'd reach out to teachers I know and ask them to start referring me up the education ladder so I could find the people I'd need to do the job and to help me do the job. I still wouldn't do a very good job because I just don't know that much about the entire educational system, although I suspect I actually know a great deal more than she does.

[lindysalsagal]

11. Would be good news if he would replace her with someone good.

Not holding my breath.