Another Republican debate last night – and this time the crowd stole the show. CNN hosted the Tea Party debate down in Tampa, Florida – which took place in front of a raucous crowd of Tea Partiers unafraid to cheer on radical claims made by the candidates. The debate itself featured some heated exchanges between front-runners Rick Perry and Mitt Romney – over Perry’s description of Social Security as a Ponzi scheme – a claim he slightly walked back from last night. It also featured a full assault led by Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum against Perry for mandating young girls in Texas receive HPV vaccines – clearly not an issue that millions of American who’ve lost their jobs care about – yet an issue that piques the interest of Republican culture warriors.

But the most shocking moment of the debate came when moderator Wolf Blitzer asked Libertarian Ron Paul if a 30-year-old who didn’t have health insurance was in dire need of medical care – should our nation just let him die. As Paul stumbled to answer – the crowd yelled out “Yes!” calling for people without health insurance to be left to die. After the debate – reacting to the blood thirst in the Tea Party crowd – former Congressman Alan Grayson put it best when he said, “It's sadism, pure and simple. It's the same impulse that led people in the Coliseum to cheer when the lions ate the Christians. And that seems to be where we are heading -- bread and circuses, without the bread. The world that Hobbes wrote about – ‘the war of all against all.’”

Congressman Grayson is right. If the economy doesn’t improve – and Rick Perry is the Republican choice – then welcome to Tea Party rule in America where life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

-Thom

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The Daily Stack

Quote: "Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light." -- George Washington.

Hour One: Reporting from Tampa on GOP debate, round 2 Geoff Holtzman, Talk Radio News Service

Article: "Republicans Square Off In Tampa" by Geoff Holtzman.

Article: "Alan Grayson Blasts Tea Party Debate Audience's Reaction To Health Care Question: 'It's Sadism'".

Article: "Romney, Perry exchange blows over Social Security reform" by Eric W. Dolan.

Article: "Republicans Block Senate Disaster Aid Bill" by AP / Andrew Taylor.

Article: "Government Pays More in Contracts, Study Finds" by Ron Nixon.

Video: "Broken Record: Doocy Calls Obama's Jobs Bill "Class Warfare ... One Of Those Soak The Rich Things"".

Article: "Fox: Romney won the debate" by Jed Lewison.

Latest on war on democracy-University of Wisconsin under fire David Vines, Political Science Major-University of Wisconsin.

Article: "UW-Madison responds to attacks on diversity efforts" by University of Wisconsin.

Article: "New Studies Show Severe Racial Discrimination at University of Wisconsin" by Center for Equal Opportunity.

Article: "Student loan default rates jump to 8.8 percent" by Justin Pope.

Site: "Sourcewatch: Center for Equal Opportunity".

Hour Two: The Eleventh Day: The full story of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden Anthony Summers, co-author of "The Eleventh Day: The full story of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden"

Book: "The Eleventh Day: The full story of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden" by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan.

Article: "Fearing Harm, Bin Laden Kin Fled From U.S." by Patrick E. Tyler.

Article: "Link to 9/11 hijackers found in Sarasota" by Anthony Summers and Dan Christensen.

Article: "The Kingdom and the Towers The Kingdom and the Towers" by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan.

Article: "Moody's: Obama plan will add 1.9M jobs" by Mackenzie Weinger.

Talk Radio News Segment: Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief

Article: "CBO Chief Warns Deficit Committee: Tax Policy on Road to Ruin" by Joyce Hanson.

Article: "2010 Poverty Rate Highest In Years" by Justin Duckham.

Article: "Census Data: Poverty Rates, Median Income Drops Get Worse & Worse" by 24/7 Wall St.

Article: "Obama wants tax breaks ended to pay for jobs plan" by Reuters.

Article: "Hill Worries DoD Is Dragging Feet On Deficit Plan" by Carlo Munoz.

Article: "U.S. issues travel warning for Iraq" by UPI.

Article: "Jindal Says No To Being Perry's VP" by Justin Duckham.

Article: "U.S., Romania sign missile deal that irked Russia" by Reuters.

Hour Three: Mobilizing the world to confront the reality of the climate crisis Maggie Fox, Al Gore's Climate Reality Project

Article: "Reality. It’s not an opinion." by Maggie L. Fox.

Event: "24 Hours of Reality" by Climate Reality Project.

Stream: "" Wednesday September 14 7:00pm - Thursday at 9:00pm CT.

Article: "Extent of Arctic summer sea ice at record low level" by Pete Spotts.

Article: "Carbon tax bill introduced to Australian parliament" by Bonnie Malkin.

Article: "Advocacy Group Files Ethics Complaint Against Darrell Issa" by Lee Fang.

Article: "Despite 600,000 Public Sector Layoffs, Darrell Issa Says Government Shouldn’t Try To Prevent Teacher Layoffs" by Marie Diamond.

Event: "San Luis Obispo, CA: Move to Amend California Tour" by September 14, 2011 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm.

The good: "Minnesota AG Swanson Backs Schneiderman: No Settlement With the Banks Without Investigation" by David Dayen.

The bad: "Fox Greets Obama's Jobs Bill With Tired "Class Warfare" Attack" by Media Matters.

The very, very ugly: "Coming Soon: Blackwater The Video Game, Developed With Oversight From Founder Erik Prince" by Zaid Jilani.

Crazy alert: "No butts, Shirley the smoking orangutan must quit" by AP.

Movie: "Mississippi Burning".

Article: "U.S. Postsecondary Edge Shrinking Among G-20 Countries" by Sarah D. Sparks.

Article: "NRA Bill With 243 Sponsors Would Create Race To The Bottom On Concealed Handguns" by Alex Seitz-Wald.

Article: "New leak near Deepwater Horizon site quickly becoming a massive oil slick" by Judson Parker.

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Hour Three: Tuesday's special elections...who won and what it means John Nichols, The Nation Magazine

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