WEEKEND QUOTABLES

This WaPo headline wins this week's It's-Not-From-The-Onion Award.

Hoping to raise school standards, Rhee adds 13 senior managers

Coming in a close second was this statement from BP spokesman Bill Salvin:

The Gulf oil spill containment process is "going exactly as we hoped"

The Mel Brooks Award

My brother Fred should receive an award from Mel's Save Our Schmuck Foundation for his assessment of  Fred Hess' latest piece of make-class-size-bigger nonsense.

AEI’s Fred Hess can explain that the over six thousand teachers that may be laid off in the New York public school system is a golden opportunity...Fred Hess is a Schmuck (Fred Klonsky's blog)