Teabagging Peacock

Paul Krugman, Pulitizer-Prize winning Economist tells it like it is:

If health reform fails, you can forget about any serious effort to rein in rising Medicare costs. And even if it succeeds, many politicians will have learned a hard lesson: you don’t get any credit for doing the fiscally responsible thing. It’s better, for the sake of your career, to just pretend that you’re fiscally responsible — that is, to be a deficit peacock.

So we’re paralyzed in the face of mass unemployment and out-of-control health care costs. Don’t blame Mr. Obama. There’s only so much one man can do, even if he sits in the White House. Blame our political culture instead, a culture that rewards hypocrisy and irresponsibility rather than serious efforts to solve America’s problems. And blame the filibuster, under which 41 senators can make the country ungovernable, if they choose — and they have so chosen.

I’m sorry to say this, but the state of the union — not the speech, but the thing itself — isn’t looking very good.

Jeff Miller (R-Hyprocrisy), Northwest Florida's inept and ineffectual congressman spreads his feathers and struts ridiculously today in the op-ed pages of the daily newspaper, declaring he's opposed to his own party's incumbent governor, Charlie Crist. Instead, he supports a batshit-insane teabagger (Mario Rubio) for U.S. Senate.

Miller is a hypocritical peacock, to be sure. In Congress, he voted for every single What-Me-Worry? unfunded budget-busting plan, tax cut, and corporate give-away proposed by the Bush administration. Chalk up record multi-trillion dollar deficit increases to Jeff Miller. He then opposed Obama's economic stimulus plan because it was too big (not, as nearly all economists recognize, too small) and he opposed health reform.

Gazillions in debt to fund the rich, Wall Street banks, and corporations. Not a cent to rescue the economy for middle America. That's what lies beneath Jeff Miller's teabagging peacock feathers.