Who Lost The New Republic?

New Republic Senior Editor Noam Scheiber in a New York Times op-ed:

But George W. Bush taught Democrats of all stripes that their differences with one another were minor compared with the differences between them and Republicans. For seven years, Democrats have faced a radical administration that operates in bad faith. Yet there was the Democratic Leadership Council, still arguing that teachers unions endanger the republic.

Mickey Kaus rushes to the defense of teacher union foes. [Who needs wind mills as an alternate source of power? Just attach the generator to Kaus' knee.]

The mindlessness of Kaus-style teacher union bashing have been the subject of important posts by Kevin Carey at The Quick and the Ed and Ezra Klein recently.

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