{"id":32218,"date":"2017-12-22T13:25:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32218"},"modified":"2017-12-22T13:25:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:25:24","slug":"being-obstreperous-because-you-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32218","title":{"rendered":"Being Obstreperous Because You Can"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tax bill the President<\/a> signed today was a major victory for the President and those who supported it. The Democrats<\/a> are looking a little unhappy about the whole thing. The real reasons the Democrats opposed the bill are most likely political, but there was one thing the Democrats changed in the bill that they need to be held accountable for.<\/p>\n

Townhall<\/a> posted an article about the tax bill today explaining how parents of children with disabilities and parents who homeschool were denied a benefit by Democrats.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Senator Ted Cruz<\/a> (R-Texas<\/a>), one of the Senate\u2019s most outspoken advocates for school choice<\/a>, introduced an addition to the tax bill called the Student Opportunity Amendment<\/a>. The amendment would expand 529 college savings plans to also include K-12 education, allowing parents and grandparents to use these tax-advantaged<\/a> plans to save up to $10,000 per child per year for private schools, religious schools, or even homeschooling.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…However, Democrats weren\u2019t about to let a beneficial piece of legislation pass without a fight. Party leaders ran to the Senate Parliamentarian<\/a> to complain that the entire amendment ran afoul of the Byrd rule<\/a> — another one of those arcane Senate rules<\/a> that no one understands. But while the Parliamentarian disagreed with the Democrats\u2019 argument about the majority of the provisions in the amendment, she unfortunately found their argument compelling when applied to homeschooling and struck the language from the bill.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In response, Senator Cruz rushed to the floor and pushed a Motion to Waive the Parliamentarian\u2019s changes, which solely affected the homeschooling provision. This motion would require a 60-vote majority to succeed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is what happened next:<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, not a single Democrat voted for Senator Cruz\u2019s motion. Not one. The Democrats knowingly and proudly discriminated against homeschooled kids and kids with disabilities, in many cases destroying their access to quality education. Even by the Democrats\u2019 woefully low standards, it was a shameful display.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Next time Democrats attempt to take the moral high ground on some issue related to education or welfare, Americans should remember exactly what they did here. When given the choice to help children with disabilities, they chose partisanship. When given the opportunity to make life better for millions of children, they chose to RESIST<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The actions of the Democrats in the Senate are truly despicable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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