Reply #24: Jeb served as Pres. Obama's prop for the latter's push for an 11% increase in education spending. [View All]

[ClarkUSA]

President Obama and Jeb Bush, the Republican former governor of Florida, joined in an awkward partnership on Friday, when Mr. Obama visited a high school here to push his plans to boost education funding... The Obama-Bush appearance was designed to underscore what Mr. Obama hopes will be a bipartisan effort on Capitol Hill to renew the education bill at a time when he is unlikely to get Republican cooperation on many other domestic initiatives... as Congress grapples with ways to cut the federal budget, Mr. Obama is also proposing to increase education spending by 11 percent – a proposal that is likely to run into significant opposition from Republicans.

“If we want more good news on the jobs front then we’ve got to make more investments in education,’’ Mr. Obama told students in a crowded gymnasium. He went on, “I want everybody to understand: Our job is not just to cut. Even as we find ways to cut spending what we can’t do is cut back on investments like education.’’

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/obama-and-jeb-bush-visit-a-miami-school

Sounds good to me. Teachers would do well to support President Obama. This is no time for infighting when the budget battle against the Teabagger House has been joined.