Below is an editorial from Mark Uncapher, the Montgomery County (MD) Republican Chairman:

 

Being a Republican and a conservative in Montgomery County often requires a healthy sense of humor.

Here is an example:

This past Thursday protestors from SEIU Local 500 representing school bus drivers descended on Montgomery County’s Republican Party headquarters complaining about Romney’s comment that:

“When a young person makes the honor roll, I know it took a bus to get to school, but I don’t give a bus driver credit for the honor roll.”

Our county school bus drivers’ union was offended by this. Seriously, you cannot make this stuff up.
See: News story SEIU Website

I do not minimize the responsibility or professionalism of Montgomery County’s school bus drivers. However their trying to claim credit for whether individual students making the honor roll is simply silly. They frankly should be embarrassed for trying to make this argument. However SEIU does not embarrass easily.

Apparently SEIU thinks that when I was a Montgomery County Public School System parent, I should have told my kids that they were not really responsible for making the Honor Roll, being on a winning team or top ranked extra-curricular activity. Instead they should have been told to give the credit to their school bus drivers. Try that on teenagers and I guarantee a generation of Republicans.

Ever since Obama’s infamous “You didn’t build it” comment, we have had a national debate over individual vs. collective responsibility. This debate reveals the deep divide in values between collectivists, such as SEIU, and those who value individual autonomy and personal achievement.

Willingness to accept accountability for failure is the best test for who really deserves credit for “Building it.”

So here is the test for determining who really “Built it.” If you were willing to be accountable for what happens if something does not succeed, you deserve full credit when does. However if you will not take responsible for failure, you do not deserve to claim success.
It is the student, not the bus driver, who gets an F instead of an A, if she fails to study.

Mark Uncapher
Montgomery County Republican Chairman