Everyone’s Saying It
When communicating, we always aim for clarity,
But this campaign is creating definitional hilarity.
Given the current popular meme,
We are renaming the term “Ponzi scheme”
To something like, oh, I dunno — “Social Security??”
Day: September 16, 2011
Poll: Mainstream Republicans Share Only Tenuous Ties with Tea Party
Not all Republicans are comfortable in tin foil tricorn hats, according to a recent CNN poll. In fact about half don’t consider themselves active tea party supporters.
…roughly half (49 percent) of Republicans and independents who lean towards the GOP say they support the tea party movement or are active members, with roughly half (51 percent) saying that they have no feelings one way or another about the tea party or that they oppose the movement.
More education is correlated with more tea partyism, which is odd until you remember that education is also associated with greater income. And no matter how successful the movement’s founders, Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe, have been at portraying it as a grassroots effort, the tea party is all about protecting the assets of old, rich, cranky white guys.
Like Ron Paul, tea partiers are incoherent on social issues
…tea party Republicans are more likely to be male, older, and college educated, with non-tea party Republicans more likely to be younger, less educated, female, and less likely to say they are born-again or evangelical. Both groups are predominantly white.
Physician: Because of Bachmann’s Lie, ‘More People Will Die from Cervical Cancer’
Physicians are bracing for more parents to refuse the HPV vaccine, which protects against the most common cause of cervical cancer, for their daughters.
They say the comments by the Republican candidate will only stoke growing and unfounded fears about a whole class of common immunizations needed to fight disease.
“There are people out there who, because of this kind of misinformation, aren’t going to get their daughter immunized,” said Dr. Kenneth Alexander, a pediatric infectious disease expert at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
“As a result, there will be more people who die from cervical cancer,” Alexander said in a telephone interview.
Dr. Mary Anne Jackson, an infectious disease expert at Children’s Mercy Hospital & Clinics in Kansas City, Missouri, said doctors are already struggling to convince parents to immunize girls against HPV, a sexually transmitted virus.
“There will be repercussions of this comment that will directly impact every provider who takes care of adolescents and young women,” Jackson said in a telephone interview.
