One thing The Great Will (TGW) cannot resist is the heady perfume of the jackboot, it provides a frisson that suffuses his latest essay titled ‘The GOP sends in a Marine for education reform’. And the object of TGW’s latest Political Romance is Rep. John Kline, a Minnesota Republican with 25 years in the Marine Corps and on his fifth term as a congressman. But Rep. Kline is no mere means to an end, but a friendly witness, for TGW’s attack on Public Education and Teachers Unions as the bearers of the mantle of political obstructionism, and a pernicious self-seeking, self-aggrandizing politics of civic irresponsibility: even of an unseemly display of public immorality, framed in the inimitable Political Theology of Conservatism. It is a fight between moral good, Rep. Kline, and the inherent evil of the modern Public Sector Union, teachers, in this case. TGW likes to work the most oblique angles of the latest policy questions, made fully congruent with his ideological belief, so as to appear more deeply knowledgeable than even his political confreres. And his rhetorical frame embraces one of consistent themes of The American Political Melodrama, David verses Goliath , albeit re-imagined as a visionary congressman attempts to reform a sclerotic, malfeasant bureaucracy under the banner of ‘Education Reform.’
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