Juan Williams thinks Rahm and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie belong on the honor roll of education reformers.
And I guess so do I.
Or maybe not the honor roll.
More like the dishonor roll.
Williams and Rahm appear together on an anti-union, anti-public school video put out by the right-wing Education Action Group, home of Ben Velderman and Kyle Olson (my stalkers).
In a post on the Fox (where else?) web site, Williams says.
What do Republican Chris Christie and Democrat Rahm Emanuel have in common? Yes, they are both tough guys — hard men who never back away from a political fight and happily curse out their critics.
But I’m not talking about that.
I am talking about the surprising brotherhood forming between that these two political brawlers – one on the right and one on the left – as they take on bad schools and the teachers’ unions that defend bad schools.
Fighting the unions and the money they pump into American politics – usually to help Democrats who in turn give them contracts that include protection for bad teachers – has long been a complaint from Republicans.
Wisconsin’s Gov. Scott Walker, in his bitter fight to take away collective bargaining rights from teachers in his state, represents the full blast of Republican anger at unions and their cozy relationship with Democrats.
But Gov. Christie is not Gov. Walker and New Jersey is not Wisconsin.
Gov. Christie is a northeastern moderate Republican. In the past that brand of Republican did not risk an all-out fight with a deep-pocketed foe such as teachers’ unions.
The same was true of big city Democratic mayors such as the former Obama White House Chief of Staff, and Chicago Mayor Emanuel.
Fred Klonsky 
Juan got it wrong; they are the Laurel and Hardy of ed deform and they are both on the right. But he’s right they like to curse and brawl. Nothing statesman-like or gentlemenly there.