To Evil To Be Stupid

Think Progress: After passing a new bill that would make it much more difficult for the North Carolina Association of Educators to collect dues from its members, North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis (R) said at the state’s GOP convention that teachers who oppose the new legislation — which could dramatically harm teachers’ collective bargaining organizations — don’t care about kids and only care about their jobs and pensions:

Tillis drew applause also when he said the legislature planned next week to adopt both a bill requiring voters to produce a photo identification, and a bill that would bar the state from collecting dues for the N.C. Association of Educators, the group that lobbies for teachers and other groups. “They don’t care about kids. They don’t care about classrooms,” Tillis said. “They only care about their jobs and their pensions.”

Putting aside their continuing efforts to destroy the middle class, this latest bit of GOP teacher bashing is ridiculous. People don't become teachers to make a lot of money or have an easy job. Of course it just another volley in their long war on public education, which all makes more sense when you realize they need their flock to be relatively stupid to buy their idiotic logic and ignore the horrific results of their public policy.