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On Bush's phony education "Miracle", you know, "No Child Left Behind" (out of sight, out of mind), the "Texas Miracle", and all that make-believe,... Molly Ivins summed it up as follows:

As full-time residents of the state that gave you tort reform, H. Ross Perot, and penis-enlargement options on executive health plans, we're obliged to warn you that if Dubya Bush had exported "the Texas Miracle," the country would be in deep shit. In public education there was no Texas miracle. The last Lone Star miracle we know of was the time the face of Jesus appeared on a screen door in Port Neches, and that's been more than thirty years." [from Bushwacked, by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose]

Liberal Coalition members Trish Wilson and Steve Gillard also discuss the so advertised and much media ballyhooed "miracle".

Via Trish Wilson: No Child Left Behind? More Like "No Child's Behind Left"

And from Steve Gilliard

It was called the “Texas Miracle,” and you may remember it because President Bush wanted everyone to know about it during his presidential campaign.

Also from Steve Gillard, who comments on our Homeland National Security State Apparatus efforts to foil the potentially plausible possible dastardly dirty deeds of potentially plausible possible dastardly dirty deedsters.

See: NO INTEL FOR 'DIRTY BOMB' THREAT

Homeland Security officials were terrified of a potential "dirty" bomb attack over the New Year's holiday -- even though they had no intelligence suggesting such an attack.

According to the Washington Post, "the U.S. government last month dispatched scores of casually dressed nuclear scientists with sophisticated radiation detection equipment hidden in briefcases and golf bags to scour five major U.S. cities for radiological, or 'dirty,' bombs."

The attention to a potential dirty bomb, for example, resulted not from specific recent information indicating such an attack but from the belief among officials that al Qaeda is sparing no effort to try to detonate one.

One would hope that they dispatched the golf bags to Orlando and the briefcases to Times Square. But who can say for sure. And unfortunately, no mention of how they casually accessorized for the celebrations in San Francisco.