Disciplinarian Disaster Daniels

This story doesn't fit nicely into any of the categories covered in the key for this blog. One wonders if Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels isn't so out of control that he needs a category of his own.

Just prior to the Indiana Senate's approval of a Daniels-fueled bill to rob parents of the right to sue schools, Disaster Daniels gave his State of the State address, in which he outlined the rationale for his bill.

The embattled Republican governor declared, "It is time Indiana said to its children: sit down and hush up."

Damn. Talk about having a bad attitude towards kids!

This shows Daniels thinks of children as property, not as people. It speaks volumes about the mentality he harbors.

Personally, I have no problem with lecturing and punishing a serial bully who chooses to violate what was once a taboo against school harassment. But Daniels didn't say bullies; he said children. We all know he's not referring to serial harassers, because they're not the ones who are ever disciplined by schools anyway.

If a principal hits a kid with a wooden board, the kid's parents have every reason to sue. So if anyone needs to sit down and hush up, it's you, Disaster Daniels.