Today, President Obama Will Travel To Michigan To Announce A Plan Focusing On The Costs Of Higher Education.
Hey Republican National Committee. It’s me again. Because I’ve long bemoaned Tumblr’s failure to harbor a decent crop of conservatives. I have such high hopes … but this last post was a bit discouraging.
Here’s what I gathered from the post.
- College costs are high—and have been climbing for years.
- Republicans want me to blame this on the Obama administration—but don’t feel the need to articulate why I should blame Obama rather than, say, Republican state legislatures who have consistently blocked or reduced funding to higher education, shifting the costs for existing expenses on to already struggling familes.
- The Obama administration is trying to tackle this—but hasn’t really succeeded yet.
- Republicans notice the things I care about—but they would rather see Obama fail to solve problems than see problems solved.
This isn’t exactly a well-thought-out argument. It doesn’t contain alternatives or solutions or even fake solutions.
I’d call this a hatchet piece—but I respect a decent hatchet piece. Hatchets hurt when you hit people with them. This is more of a wet noodle piece. If you go about trying to flay somebody with a wet noodle, they might get moderately irritated. But it’s not a particularly effective mode of attack.
If you’re going to do partisan hackery, I’d advise you to really embrace it. This half-assed wet-noodle stuff is just depressing.
