President Obamas plan to offer Americans two years of college for free has come under fire from congressional Republicans, who are calling it a blatant plot to make Americans smarter. The G.O.P., which has benefited from the support of so-called low-information voters in recent years, accused Obama of cynically trying to make people smarter as a way of chipping away at the Republican base. You take low-information voters and give them information, and pretty soon theyre Democrats, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said. House Speaker John Boehner said that forcing knowledge into people was flagrantly un-American, adding, We make this promise to the American people: if you like your brains, you can keep your brains. 