Right-wing extremist to lead New Jersey schools

Too often, we forget that we're at war with individuals who are basically just bad people.

Folks like Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Sun Myung Moon, Pat Robertson, and Chris Christie - New Jersey's new sorry imitation of a governor. When Christie isn't fixing traffic tickets and getting corrupt county bosses to rig elections for him, he's busy appointing right-wing extremists to important posts.

Such as Bret Schundler (the idiot pictured here).

During his 9 years as mayor of Jersey City, Schundler left the city in shambles. He abused the city's official website to attack political opponents. During his ill-fated 2005 run for governor, Schundler found a photo of Howard Dean surrounded by cheering supporters and pasted a photo of himself over Dean. Some of the people in the photo threatened to sue Schundler for misappropriation of likeness.

Leaders of education groups have described Schundler as "the antithesis of everything we hold sacred about public education." So naturally, Chris Christie has selected Bret Schundler to serve as New Jersey's education commissioner.

Schundler has long advocated unconstitutional private school voucher programs that lavish taxpayer money on private schools even when public schools are strapped for dough.

Although Bret Schundler's serial incompetence has made him a national laughingstock, his nomination has received praise from other far-right nutcases and DLCers like State Sen. Raymond Lesniak.

America is supposed to be a constitutional republic, a fact that should stymie Schundler's pet cause. Then again, it's hard for the country's public or private schools to get much worse, because America pretty much doesn't have an education system anymore. It's kind of like the health care system.

Schundler still has to be confirmed by New Jersey's Democratic-led legislature. If New Jersey lawmakers are anything like the wusses in the U.S. Senate, they'll probably just confirm him - when what they should be doing is calling Chris Christie and Rupert Murdoch before the chamber to answer some very tough questions.

(Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/nyregion/14christie.html)