Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? (Yet Another Washington Post Edition)
Matthew Yglesias watches Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post editorial board play the concern troll, and suggests she should stop the insanity if she "genuinely wants to promote some kind of education reform initiatives -- rather than dreaming up reasons to carp about Democrats":
Matthew Yglesias: Readers have probably noticed that I'm favorably disposed to Barack Obama, but his modest embrace of merit pay schemes doesn't seem like a very good reason to be excited about his campaign even if you accept the premise (as I guess I do) that he's correct on the merits here. This simply isn't much of a federal issue. Presidential primary campaign talk about teachers is always going to be dominated by efforts to court union support precisely because education policy is such a tiny proportion of what a president actually does.
If Ruth Marcus genuinely wants to promote some kind of education reform initiatives -- rather than dreaming up reasons to carp about Democrats -- she should find some state-level politicians who actually make the bulk of the education policy and give them some backup in efforts to buck entrenched interests...
