Mark Davis Is Still Here
I don't know why I had the feeling. Maybe it's the inevitable letdown after the emotional high of an historic election. But when I opened the morning newspaper (figuratively that is, my subscription to The Dallas Morning News is long expired) and found Mark Davis sounding just like the Mark Davis of old, I involuntarily let out a long sigh. Despite Paul Krugman's wishful thinking...
"Four years ago it seemed as if the monsters would dominate American politics for a long time to come. But for now, at least, they’ve been banished to the wilderness."... the monsters aren't banished at all. They may not be in power anymore, but they are still around, their rants as tired as ever.
Davis says Obama "poses palpable dangers -- to our national security, our economy and our Constitution" as if the hole our country is in is not due to the disastrous Bush administration, but will only begin as Obama starts digging us out of the debacle in Iraq, the economic meltdown, and Bush's suspension of the Constitution through warrantless wiretapping, denial of habeus corpus, and torture.
Today's column is the same old Mark Davis, talking of hasty surrender in Iraq, handing al Qaeda a victory, eternally dishonoring the troops, giving in to the "Islamist-coddling pacifist wing of his party," and Obama's "radical past and socialist instincts." Today's column reveals a defeated conservative in deep denial:
"This election was a slap at the Republican brand of the moment, not the fundamentals of conservatism."
The sun the morning after the election rises on a Mark Davis who is unbroken and unbowed, a Mark Davis who has learned nothing and who still has nothing to say.
Texas SBOE Is Still Here, Too
Mark Davis may be in the lunatic fringe, but at least he doesn't hold any position of authority. Readers who don't care for his opinion are welcome to line their bird cages with his writings. Cynthia Dunbar, on the other hand, is a member of the lunatic fringe with real power. She's a member of the Texas State Board of Education, the organization that sets the school curriculum used to educate our children.
Linda Campbell, in a Fort Worth Star-Telegram column, tells us that Dunbar spread false and malicious information before this week's presidential election. Dunbar claims that Barack Obama "obstinately refused to present valid documentation" of citizenship, thus violating the Constitution by claiming to be eligible to hold the office of President. This is a scurrilous myth that's been spread by email since the summer. It's been debunked by numerous independent sources, but Cynthia Dunbar continues to present the smear as fact. She hysterically cries that "an Obama Administration would ultimately mean one thing . . . the end of America as we know her."
The State Board of Education ought to be non-partisan and focused solely on the education of our children. Texans should not entrust that education to a woman who spreads lies and fear to influence political elections. Cynthia Dunbar needs to find another job. Voters should insist on it in the 2010 election.
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