From the OUTSIDE looking IN: AZ Legislative Republicans need to explain SCHOOL choice -vs- HEALTH care rights for disabled children

Many of the AZ Legislature’s conservative Republicans love to put on their favorite pair of Party Platform shoes and “Do the Hustle”.

Needless to say, most people fall off of platform shoes while bustin’ a move – just as most Republicans fall off of the Party Platform wagon every once in a while. But, there are some who stay on that wagon….. and this is for you.

Since the GOP is suffering huge generational & ideological gaps – The GHOST thought he would enlighten the Party Purists at the AZ Legislature for a moment.

People are watching you but they can’t understand you. Young, old, black, white, big, little, liberal and conservative. They’re all watching. They’re all voting. They’ve heard rumors about the GOP Platform and they have good questions about it. They’re trying to make you listen and they want an answer. Sadly, you still don’t get it……So, HERE’S YOUR SIGN…………..

BE CAREFUL LITTLE MOUTH WHAT YOU SAY.

Arizona’s Senate Republican Chair of the Education Accountability & Reform Committee, John Huppenthal (Chandler), issued a press release late last week that is the best example of rhetorical irony The GHOST has seen in a long time. Additional presser commentary was provided by Senate President, Bob Burns (R-Peoria) and Thayer Verschoor, (R-Gilbert). (Click HERE to see the PRESS release)

The carefully chosen words of these bleeding heart liberals conservatives pull at the heartstrings of humanity, academia and all types of Christians – as they collectively express outrage against the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling that will displace “Arizona’s most vulnerable children” from their voucher-paid private education. (Click HERE to see the COURT’s ruling.)

Senator Huppenthal said, “These children already live each day with special needs and unfortunate histories of abuse or neglect; it is tragic that now on top of that they will be yanked from perhaps the best schools they have ever known”.

Is that right?

For a hot minute, I thought I read, “These children already live each day with special needs and unfortunate histories of abuse or neglect; it is tragic that now on top of that they will be yanked from perhaps the best DOCTOR they have ever known.”

Then, I remembered that I was reading a REPUBLICAN press release, not one released by the Democrats. But, my how similar they sound….except for that one pesky word.

Using 5^th grade logic, we can deduce that:

Republicans = School choice for healthy disabled kids

Democrats = Health care for disabled kids so they can attend school, period.

Logically, the disabled children can’t function at their best in school (if at all) with untreated medical problems. ACCCHS and special State program budget cuts have killed specialized health care for many disabled kids but it takes the Supreme Court to kill private (mostly parochial) school education for the healthiest of these disabled kids.

That’s a bitter pill for many Republicans to swallow. There is an inherent poetic justice and sadness in watching the tighty-righty Republicans run to rescue the voucher program for disabled kids just weeks after they rallied to kill health care for disabled children.

How are we supposed to counter this behavior? Really, it’s the $64,000 question. We GOP soldiers in the street have run out of excuses for the Wagon Train. We do our best to explain ourselves but sometimes we have no choice but to shrug our shoulders and say, “I don’t know.”

All of those people watching the GOP that I mentioned have already taken that 5^th grade LOGIC class. They don’t understand how the brains inside the GOP can arrive at their conclusion. Care to explain? Anyone? The next generations are watching you…..while voting against you. What can we do to help?