Repugs love states rights, except with the state is blue

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... except WHEN the state is blue.

So much for local control. Cantor says he'll try to stop de Blasio's New York City education plans

Republicans are theoretically in favor of more local control of things like education—that's one of the bases for their whole "shrink the federal government" thing. So it's always funny to see just how quickly that idea falls apart when a state or local government does something Republicans don't like. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor stood firmly in this tradition Wednesday in a speech on education. On the one hand, he'd have us believe he likes local control:

For far too long the federal government’s approach to fixing our education system has been: spend more money and give more control to DC.
— @GOPLeader

On the other hand, he attacked New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for his education plans:

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor vowed Wednesday to use the power of Congress to try to stop New York Mayor Bill de Blasio from limiting the growth of charter schools. [...]In practice, of course, Congress has little leverage over New York City education policy. Yet Cantor vowed to try to block any rollback in support for charter schools. “Our committees in the House will remain vigilant in their efforts to ensure no one from the government stands in the school house door between any child and a good education,” he said. De Blasio’s policies, he said, “could devastate the growth of education opportunity” and take choice away from countless families in New York City.

Cantor claims he's all about "school choice," but he doesn't want to bring choice to education any more than he wants true local control. He wants to dismantle the notion of a public good and bring private profit to education. He wants to funnel education budgets to private schools and charter management companies and weaken neighborhood schools embedded in the communities of the kids they educate. And ultimately, he doesn't care what the voters of New York City or any other city have made clear they want.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/08/1268147/-So-much-for-local-control-Cantor-says-he-ll-try-to-stop-de-Blasio-s-New-York-City-education-plans?detail=email

iow, Repugs/VRWC/ALEC strategy is denigrate and destroy public teachers, teachers' unions, and public schools to shovel taxpayer $Ts to for-profit charter schools (includes re-segregation in the South)

[scott]

New York City is one of my favorite states