{"id":33467,"date":"2018-08-23T12:59:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33467"},"modified":"2018-08-23T13:39:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T20:39:41","slug":"republicans-on-parade-8-23-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/23\/republicans-on-parade-8-23-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade &#8211; 8\/23\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/RepublicansOnParade7.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Here is the one hundred thirty-second article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Ammosexual Republican Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos.\u00a0\u00a0 She is so honored for trying to spend funds intended to educate students on putting guns in school classrooms.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"0823DeVos\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/0823DeVos.jpg\" alt=\"0823DeVos\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is considering allowing states to <strong>use federal grant money to buy guns for schools<\/strong>, people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Two people said the question has been raised inside the department as to whether states are allowed to use <strong>money available through Student Support and Academic Enrichment grants<\/strong> to buy firearms. Unlike other federal grants, this one does not expressly prohibit such purchases.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Allowing schools to use federal money to buy firearms would fuel anger among those who say the response to school shootings should be fewer guns, not more. But it could find support among gun rights advocates who say that having firearms in schools would make them less likely to be targeted.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cThe department is constantly considering and evaluating policy issues, particularly issues related to school safety,\u201d said Education Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Hill. \u201cThe secretary nor the department issues opinions on hypothetical scenarios.\u201d&#8230;\u00a0 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/grade-point\/wp\/2018\/08\/23\/betsy-devos-considers-allowing-schools-to-use-federal-funds-to-buy-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Whenever the Republican Reich evaluates policy issues, they are really floating a trial balloon to see how big a stink they&#8217;ll get.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I was surprised to discover that I&#8217;ve never given DeVos a parade before.\u00a0 She was certainly overdue.\u00a0 Betsy&#8217;s brother is Eric Prince, founder of the GOP SS, Blackwater.\u00a0 When their reputation became so bad it was costing them, they changed their name to Xe.\u00a0 They trashed their reputation again and changed their name to Academi.\u00a0 It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me Betsy plans to line the family pockets with federal dollars by sending mercenary thugs to teach white supremacist teachers to blow away naughty Latino students.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">RESIST!!<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">VOTE BLUE!!<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">75 DAYS!!<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the one hundred thirty-second article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Ammosexual Republican Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos.\u00a0\u00a0 She is so honored for trying to spend funds intended to educate students on putting guns in school classrooms. Education Secretary Betsy <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/23\/republicans-on-parade-8-23-2018\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}