Jeb Disses DubyaEt tu, governor?

"No Child … what's it called?"
—Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, explaining to June Kronholz in today's Wall Street Journal that the failure of 87 percent of Florida's schools to meet to meet Florida's self-imposed benchmark under President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act "doesn't bother me." Gov. Bush said Florida scored so poorly because "we didn't game it. We didn't lower our standards." President Bush touted the program last week in a speech delivered in Jacksonville, Fla.

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Timothy Noah is a senior writer at Slate.

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