Blame the Teachers!

Evidently, State Rep Monique Davis couldn't figure out a way to blame the police without looking like a total asshole. So she blames the teachers and somehow, still manages to look like a total asshole. Here's a partial transcript of a piece on WBBM Newsradio yesterday:

• Taken from the 4:30 p.m. News to Go for 10/07/09. It starts at 1 minute 58 seconds in (no timer on recording).
  
  Bernie Tafoya intro: Even though the framework for a solution is multipronged, State Representative Monique Davis says more police is not the answer. She pins the blame on teachers for not showing students how to be better citizens.
  
  Monique Davis: If you’re not taught to value human life, or to respect your fellow man, if that is not taught through belonging to clubs, through art, through music, through literature, if these things aren’t being taught, then you’re just, you’re just like a figure. You know, we’re putting this in your head and that in your head, but we’re not making you a human being.
  
  BT: Shouldn't that be taught at home?
  
  MD: We can say should or shouldn't, but we pay teachers.
  
  BT: Shouldn't it be taught at home?
  
  MD: We don’t pay, we don’t pay home...
  
  BT: Should it be taught at home?
  
  MD: Of course. We’d love for it to be taught at home. But in most schools, it’s taught in school.

Wow. Just wow.

The "cradle-to-grave-welfare, blame everyone else but the face in the mirror" society just hit a new low. A-fucking-mazing. We wonder how many new social programs and tax hikes this idiot is going to spawn based on this little news item.