Bob Cesca: Listen All Y'all, It's a Republican Sabotage. Tuesday morning on CNBC, the spazzy white guys in lower Manhattan were debating how the administration and Congress can best repair the economy, and mainly the jobless numbers.
At one point, Rick Santelli, the hyperkinetic shoutcaster and instigator of the tea party movement, began to flail around, waving his arms above his head while yelling, "Stop spending! Stop spending! Stop spending! " And contrary to accusations from one of the other spazzy white panelists, Santelli insisted he wasn't calling for more tax cuts. Just a freeze in government spending. Fine. It doesn't really matter from which hole Santelli's latest television meltdown was extricated. Santelli's rant is just another performance in a broader strategy by the Republicans and tea party movement to deliberately sabotage the economic recovery. More than a year ago, Rush Limbaugh both predicted this and set the table for it to occur. So how does this sabotage play out? That's precisely what they want. "Stop spending! " A Radicalized GOP Might Take Over Our Government: Do Voters Real.
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Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Evidence of an "enthusiasm gap" between Democratic and Republican voters is hardly new, though it may prove to be one of the year's most important campaign dynamics. Recently, the trend became even more evident. Gallup's latest poll measuring partisan enthusiasm not only showed Republicans with a sizable advantage, but found that excitement among GOP voters has reached a level with no modern precedent.
This week's report from the Pew Research Center found a similar partisan landscape: "Fully 56 percent of Republican voters say they are more enthusiastic about voting this year than in previous elections -- the highest percentage of GOP voters expressing increased enthusiasm about voting in midterms dating back to 1994.... And 1994 proved to be a rather consequential year, as I recall. But to me, that wasn't the most interesting part.
Wait, wait, wait. This Is Where You're Fat - GOOD Blog. An update on our collective waistline: The Trust for America's Health has a new report out, with the blunt title "F as in Fat," and the news isn't good.
The map above shows America's obesity rates state by state. They hover in the 25 to 30 percent range. To put that in perspective, in 1991, no state had an obesity rate higher than 20 percent. The report also notes the relationship between income and weight: "35.3 percent of adults earning less than $15,000 per year were obese compared with 24.5 percent of adults earning $50,000 or more per year. " Part of the problem there is that a salad costs more than a Big Mac. Colorado has the lowest obesity rate at 19 percent. Via Matt Yglesias. Glenn Beck Starts College That Will Be Better Than All Other Col. If you’re like most Americans, you’ve probably always wanted to get a fraud degree online from the University of Phoenix, but are concerned about that institution’s well-known Marxist ideology and don’t want to be brainwashed while trying to get your HVAC Repair certificate.
Well, your day is just about to be made, because now you can get a degree online (i.e., download nine bullshit lectures from scam artists and wackadoodles) from Beck University, an actual accredited college founded by Glenn Beck! (Note for legal purposes: Beck University is not an accredited college.) Yale would also expect you to pay “tuition,” but Beck University is absolutely free to anyone who is already a member of Beck’s Insider Extreme program, which you have to pay for.
We are not sure what the Insider Extreme program is all about, but we assume it involves being an insider … to the extreme. The important question about Beck University is: has it single-handedly saved our country? Hola wonkerados.