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MATH ISN'T FAIR

Eric Cantor’s Office Incensed About Rounding Errors

Ur doing it rongBradley Dayspring, remember this guy? Just a few short days ago Eric Cantor’s spokesman was personally writing, producing, directing, acting in, and distributing a propaganda film about AFSCME that featured Jimmy Hoffa extorting money from children so that he could put more dollars in the swear-word jar. Well, Dayspring has reclaimed the moral high ground, boy howdy! He is outraged about a common mathematical practice called “rounding,” which is depriving people of jobs in Wyoming.

Here is the deal: once upon a time, the White House helped design a stimulus package that was supposed to create jobs. Those jobs projections were broken out by congressional district and by state. Due to rounding, the congressional district and the state numbers were not always equivalent.

How this happens with states that only have one congressional district is anybody’s guess, but maybe it is part of the “new math” that Nancy Pelosi will be subsidizing with misappropriated contraception funds and San Francisco voodoo.

Anyway, a word from Dayspring:

I don’t think that the 4600 people in Nevada or 1900 people in Wyoming – not to mention thousands of other Americans – will understand not getting a job due to a “rounding error.”

And that is why they will not have jobs, because they do not understand fifth-grade math.

Projected jobs numbers don’t quite add up [Ben Smith]


12:57 PM on Fri February 13 2009
By Sara K. Smith
2818 Views

  1. you cannot be serious says at 1:00 pm, February 13th, 2009

    you forgot to carry the 1.

  2. JadedDIssonance says at 1:10 pm, February 13th, 2009

    Should’a never let those schemey Republicans near that bill!

  3. lawrenceofthedesert says at 1:13 pm, February 13th, 2009

    I am glad that my comment last week about Bradley Dayspring being a character stolen from “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle” was taken seriously by Wonkette ayatollahs. And who better to round than Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman, who no doubt will conclude by singing the famous Pelosi chanty, “She’ll Be Rounding on the Mountain When She Comes”?

  4. Come here a minute says at 1:13 pm, February 13th, 2009

    Dear Charles Darwin,

    Happy Birthday, but we decided to forget about all that math and science crap. Thanks anyway.

    Love,
    Brad Dayspring

  5. Cape Clod says at 1:14 pm, February 13th, 2009

    Bradley Dayspring has got to be the gayest name I have ever heard. I wonder how much lunch money he got beaten out of him as a kid?

  6. Monsieur Grumpe says at 1:14 pm, February 13th, 2009

    Word problems are the most difficult. Perhaps if you draw a picture it will help.

  7. That’s a sexy pic of Nate Silver.

    I didn’t realize he knows Mr. Peabody.

  8. V572625694 says at 1:23 pm, February 13th, 2009

    Cape Clod: That’s the reason teh gayz are always so slim: the bullies always take their lunch money.

  9. Cape Clod: I will see your Bradley Dayspring, and raise you a Beau Breedlove (see Sam Adams sex scandal - you can’t make this stuff up).

  10. They damn well better understand Roman numerals too.

  11. shanemacgowan says at 1:52 pm, February 13th, 2009

    “And that is why they will not have jobs, because they do not understand fifth-grade math.”

    People that understand calculus are still working at Starbucks.

  12. Hooray For Anything says at 1:59 pm, February 13th, 2009

    Wait, I thought the Republicans didn’t believe that the stimulus package created jobs. So if it doesn’t create jobs, then why are they complaining that those jobs that are being created aren’t going out to states in a correct manner? Or am I just underestimating the Republicans ability to think logically and intelligently?

  13. BobLoblawLawBlog says at 2:03 pm, February 13th, 2009

    Dayspring? More like Wellspring of idiocy!

    Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week, try the veal…

  14. mylesfromnowhere says at 2:04 pm, February 13th, 2009

    “Quick Sherman. I’ll set the Wayback Machine for ancient Rome, you grab an abacus, then it’s back to the White House.”

  15. Texan Bulldoggette says at 2:05 pm, February 13th, 2009

    It’s Wyoming for chrissakes. Can’t Dick Cheney just shoot them all & voila, no more unemployed people!

  16. Neon Trotsky says at 2:07 pm, February 13th, 2009

    As if unemployed mouthbreathers in Wyoming and Nevada are aware of the job-creation projections for their state, let alone checking the math utilized…

    WHERE’S OUR JERBS OBAMA?! 4600 PPL DIDNT GET NEW JOBS IN NEVADA–THEREFORE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS OBVS A TOTAL FAILURE!!!

  17. snideinplainsight says at 2:17 pm, February 13th, 2009

    “War is Hell.”

  18. strazzle says at 2:25 pm, February 13th, 2009

    at least they’ll have new Lincoln pennies to help w/ the rounding

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/12/new-lincoln-pennies-unvei_n_166394.html

  19. strazzle says at 2:27 pm, February 13th, 2009

    at least we’ll have shiny new Lincoln pennies to help rounding

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/12/new-lincoln-pennies-unvei_n_166394.html

  20. IS THERE NO END TO THIS TRAVESTY??!!

  21. SayItWithWookies says at 3:52 pm, February 13th, 2009

    It turns out that John McCain was right — the fundamentals of the economy are sound. All these unemployed people are just a rounding error.

  22. Dawn Keipuntsh says at 5:09 pm, February 13th, 2009

    Cape Clod: Gayer than Plan 9 actor Dudley Manlove?

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