CO-Sen: You Tell Me What Ken Buck Is Talking About

I’m flabbergasted:

Buck: “In the 1950s, we had the best schools in the world. And the United States government decided to get more involved in federal education.”

There are no words.

83 thoughts on “CO-Sen: You Tell Me What Ken Buck Is Talking About”

  1. we don’t use red brick schoolhouses anymore, nor do schoolhouses have bells that are rung by rope in order to call students to class.

  4. It’s that Colorado did not have segregated schools in the 50’s (in fact, it was the southernmost state to have laws forbidding racial segregation.) If this had been, say, Rand Paul in Kentucky, it would have been goodnight. Still a stupid remark though.

  5. that our schools were better off segregated? Are our schools worse off because black Americans can drink at the same water fountains as everyone else?

    Dude is gonna Buckpedal (http://coloradopols.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=13473) from this, but as a minority, this is really offensive to me. How can anyone say–let alone a potential US Senator!!–that government intervention in our schools didn’t help? One can certainly say our schools are still socially and economically segregated, but I don’t know how anyone could make the claim that Brown v. Board of Education was bad for America….

    I know he’s not directly saying this, but that’s what I’m implying from it.

  6. You know, the increasing favor of math and science after the launch of Sputnik.  Obviously the chief cause of moral degeneracy is that kids aren’t studying Greek and Latin!

  7. … at the feet of the more moderate and reasonable elements of the Republican Party.  Until real moderates like Olympia Snowe, and reasonable conservatives like Dick Lugar and Linsey Graham speak out much more forcefully about stuff like this, it’s going to continue.

    But they are scared to death of this wacko-fringe that has taken over their party.  John McCain had to spend over $20 million and move way to the right to keep his job.  Decent Republicans like Bob Inglis and Lisa Murkowsiw and Bob Bennett lost their jobs.  Any even minor percieved slight of El Rushbo is met with days and days of salavating apologies.

    Still, until more sane elements of the GOP take back their party, this is going to continue.  And while the country is going to suffer for it, it’s the Republican Party’s responsibility to take care of these nut jobs.  They helped create them.

  8. and stuff. There used to be a time when the government understood the importance of curriculums that educated people about the value of education or whatever. Now the government insists on controlling the unlimited expansion of federal intrusion into the value of educational achievement or whatever. Sure, it may be politically correct to teach everybody about condom distribution in math classes, but in the 1950’s federal intervention didn’t teach children about taking God out of schools, and putting him onto the football field, where he doesn’t really belong. Touchdown dances, and cheerleading, for that matter, have become far too sexy for the good of anyone but the children. If liberal activist judges didn’t insist on putting evolution into the pledge of allegiance, we could go back to the days when children understood the value of a dollar, and the need for discipline.

    Also. Under God.

  9. had ‘the best schools in the world’ in the 1950s, or that the claim can be justified by evidence.

    But it’s never an argument about the real world with these people.  It’s always about their narcissistic confabulations about their experiences.

  10. not surprising coming from him.  I’m a conservative Republican, but I just can’t support this kind of crazy.  Not that I would vote for Bennet, though, he is too liberal.    

  11. Or is Buck just endorsing that we spend MORE on our public schools? I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt on supporting either, but he really needs to understand why we had “the best schools in the world” in the 1950s, save for the horrible racial segregation policies.

  12. Sounds like he’s talking about the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare which was created and made a Cabinet-level agency in 1953, as a precursor to the Department of Education in the 1970s.

  14. …I figure one good racist sentiment deserves another.

    Someone should ask Ryan Frazier over in CO-07 if he feels the same way. Or heck, Michael Steele. Michael Steele always makes things better (for Democrats).

    Or, uh, maybe Buck hates the G.I. Bill? No wait, wrong decade again…. Yeeeah, good luck getting out of this one, Bucky.  

  16. But you would think he’d be smart enough not to say it in public, but radicals aren’t too smart sometimes.

  17. Please tell me he’s not referring to Brown v. Board of Education.  Actually, please tell me he is referring to that.  That would be a big help for Michael Bennet.

  18. but I think it is a stretch to say Buck’s comment is some sort of segregation comment.  

    The common perception is that the US was the world leader in education and just about everything else in the 50’s.  Some of that may be romanticizing, but if it is factually true, then to imply that he meant something different is not right.  You can’t just ‘interpret’ what you want into what someone says.  How many times has the right done that to Obama, among others?

    Trent Lott is a different situation because Thurmond ran on a segregation platform.    

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