Over at NRO’s The Corner Lindsey Burke notes one of the provisions of the budget deal:
In a momentous victory for D.C. schoolchildren, Speaker John Boehner succeeded in reauthorizing the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program in the long-term continuing resolution to which the Obama administration agreed just before midnight. As Kathryn noted late last night, “John Boehner just walked Barack Obama into being a civil-rights leader.”…
This is a big deal – and it shows that Boehner has both his heart and mind in the right place. That even in the most intense, political battles, he remembers that there are genuine people out there who need help. This is a far cry from the Democrats using suffering as a political prop…this is actually doing something which will help. And Boehner got it past the Democrats.
This also illustrates, again, how scared the Democrats are of a shut down…that they let slide this program with its inherent threat to corrupt, union control of education indicates that they’ll pretty much do whatever we want, as long as we press it to the risk of a shut down.
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