- It is totally okay to discriminate against gay state employees in Virginia thanks to Gov. Bob McDonnell. (WaPo)
- A Philadelphia school district gave high schoolers free laptops so administrators could use the built-in webcams to spy on the children while they were at home. Al Gore did not invent the internet to be used like this! (Newser)
- Federal funding for education and job creation? Yep, there’s an act for that. (House Cmte. on Education and Labor)
- Because beating a Nancy Pelosi piñata apparently isn’t satisfying enough, teabaggers in Washington state would like to actually murder their Senator, Patty Murray. (The Hill/KLEW)
- Speakers at CPAC are reading teleprompter jokes off of a teleprompter. Irony much? (Media Matters)
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Let Me Tell You All What It’s Like Being Male, Middle Class, and White
If you’re liberal, it means you’re a terrible, latte-drinking, Volvo-driving elitist. But if you’re conservative, then you’re a populist hero:
A new CNN poll sheds light on who makes up the Tea Party movement. According to the results, tea partiers are richer, more male and have more education than the general population.
Eleven percent of respondents to the poll said that they had in someway participated in the tea party movement, either by going to a rally, donating money, or “taking some other active step to support the movement.” The demographics among that 11% are much different from the rest of the U.S. population.
“Of this core group of Tea Party activists, 6 of 10 are male and half live in rural areas,” CNN reports. “Nearly three quarters of Tea Party activists attended college, compared to 54 percent of all Americans, and more than three in four call themselves conservatives.”
Sixty-six percent of the tea party activists reported an income higher than $50,000 per year. Among the overall sample in the poll, that figure was 42%. The group is 80% white, as opposed to 71% among all respondents to the poll.
Shorter E.J. Dionne
What fuels the grass-roots rage
- The fact that the Tea Party convention proudly featured crowds of white people cheering for Tom Tancredo’s suggestion that we reinstate Jim Crow laws proves that this has nothing to do with race.
- CBS is considering airing a commercial for gay dating site ManCrunch.com during the Super Bowl in response to the uproar over its decision to show an anti-choice commercial from Focus on the Family. Because those two things basically cancel each other out forever. (FOX News)
- Even Michele Bachmann—who is insane—will not go to next week’s teabagger “convention” scam. (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
- If you bought a Toyota from basically anywhere in the world, it is probably broken. (NYT)
- President Obama will announce $8 billion in federal funding for high-speed rail in order to keep Joe Biden occupied for the next three years. (LA Times)
- Your U.S. House of Lords Senate has graciously allowed the American government not to default on all of its debts. (WSJ)
- Barack Obama is going to Copenhagen next month for the “Climate Change Olympics.” Like the real Olympics, conservatives will be super-excited about them when we lose. (WaPo)
- In Glenn Beck’s America, we just summarily execute detainees so we don’t even have to worry about where those pesky trials will be held. (Media Matters)
- Actual war has been declared between Majority Leader Harry Reid and ancient pundit David Broder. Maybe something can actually get done now, while everyone’s distracted. (TPMDC)
- Contrary to what Sarah Palin thinks, it helps to have an actual job while running for president. So, Lou Dobbs will run for Senate against Robert Menendez (D-NJ), the only Hispanic Senator. (AP)
- Sarah Palin has some suggestions for Canada’s healthcare system, which, much like America’s healthcare system, she knows nothing about. (The Canadian Press)
- Also too, Palin and certifiably crazy Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) will highlight the teabaggers’ national convention, Baggerfest 2010. It is the wingnut respnse to ComicCon. (CNN)
- So those Iraqi elections that are supposed to happen in January? Probably not happening in January, says Secretary Clinton. Let freedom ring! (AP)
- Somebody had the terrible idea of putting Fred Thompson and Lou Dobbs in a room together, and now Lou Dobbs is running for president, maybe. (The Corner)
- Free Republic has declared jihad against Best Buy for acknowledging the existence of Muslims and their holidays, which is worse than trying terrorists in civilian courts! (Wonkette)
- Rep. David Obey (D-WI) has proposed a new tax to pay for America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as opposed to the current method of just hoping the money comes from somewhere. (ABC News)
- What’s worse than Glenn Beck gathering teabaggers in DC the day after 9/11 to call our president a terrible socialist Kenyan Muslim? Glenn Beck gathering teabaggers in DC on 9/11 to call our president a terrible socialist Kenyan Muslim. (Media Matters)
- Just now! Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) will vote for debating on the Democratic healthcare bill. (Twitter!)
- A thousand wingnuts were waiting in the cold all day for Sarah Palin to sign their books, but then Palin “went rogue” and left without signing all of their books, so now they will not vote for her. (RumpRoast
- In case you did’t figure it out during that whole presidential campaign, “maverick” just means John McCain changes his positions whenever it’s politically convenient. (The Plank)
- Much like her father, Liz Cheney is a liar, in this case, when it comes to her fake documentary about moving Gitmo prisoners to a small town in Michigan. (The Plum Line)
- Tea Party: The Movie. Seriously. Make sure not to have any food or liquids in your mouth when you watch the trailer. (Tea Party Movie)
What Do the AP and Levi Johnston’s Penis Have in Common? Sarah Palin Does Not Like Either of Them
- Sarah Palin is praying for Levi Johnston to stop showing his penis–the penis which was inside of her daughter Bristol–to America’s Playgirl readers. (ABC The Note)
- Your Associated Press has found a dozen fun lies from Sarah Palin’s new book. Why is the liberal media so mean to Sarah Palin, always pointing out when she is making things up? (AP)
- How much was getting rid of Lou Dobbs worth to CNN? Eight million dollars. CNN payed Lou Dobbs $8 million to not be racist on their television network. (New York Post)
- Oh boo, the Danville, VA, teabaggers will not burn Tom Periello and Nancy Pelosi in effigy because it is wrong they did not like their press coverage (Lynchburg News & Advance)
- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce planned to oppose the healthcare bill using that age-old parliamentary debating tactic: buying a study that says what you want it to say. (WaPo)
People Will Be Much More Inclined to Listen to Your Point-of-View if You Burn Them in Effigy.
- The Danville, Virginia teabaggers have a creative, mature way of expressing their displeasure with the healthcare bill: burning people in effigy, specifically Rep. Tom Periello and Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (Chatham Star-Tribune via TPMDC)
- Famous internet number man Nate Silver has definitive proof that the horrible swine plague can be blamed almost entirely on southern states, except for Utah and Florida which mysteriously have no swine flu cases at all. (FiveThirtyEight)
- In 2003, your Washington Metro decided to save a little money by just dumping water mixed with hazardous chemicals directly into the Maryland sewer system, instead of properly disposing of it. (Washington Post)
- New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who is both a Republican and actually from New York City, is all for trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terror suspects near Ground Zero. (The Plum Line)
- Former Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) is going to prison for 13 years because of that whole “freezer full of money” thing. (Roll Call)
Deep Thought
Using Sean Hannity’s math, there are not 6,000 undergraduates at my school but 18,000.
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