A Vendetta Against Elmo

Barbara "Dumb-as-a-Box-of-Rocks" Boxer lives up to her nickname:

Sen. Barbara Boxer posited a new theory about what lies behind GOP cuts to the budget. The Republican Party hates Elmo, she suggested in a floor speech Tuesday.

“I believe they use deficit reduction as an excuse to carry out political vendettas,” she said, speaking about GOP cuts to health care, the EPA and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which she noted is funded by the government at a much lower percentage than the BBC in Britain.

“Now they want to zero it out,” she said. “A vendetta, against Elmo.”

I'm sure all the idiot Californians who voted to return Boxer to the Senate must be very proud today.