William Bennett presents himself as a no-nonsense "school of hard knocks" kind of guy, When he was President Reagan's Education Secretary he said that college was possible for the disadvantaged if they would sell their stereos and fancy cars. That is common for Republicans to paint everything with one broad stroke. They call it "telling it like it is" I call it shallow and simplistic thinking. Before my Liberal readers start gloating, we are guilty of generalizations ourselves.
You could say that Bill Bennett pushed the envelope recently on his radio show, Morning IN America. He said something ignorant, cruel and offensive. Bennett said "It's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down." The Republican party has talked about attracting diversity to their party. Bennett who has served in two administrations is considered by most, a mainstream Republican.
The Republicans now rule every facet of government. It is not healthy to have one party in charge as it goes against the system of checks and balances. Republicans have become so powerful that they have been dropping their guard and saying and doing whatever they want.
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