Tattoo You

I probably don’t say as much about state government as I should, but fortunately, whenever I forget, Repug John Perzel does something dumb to make me pay attention.

John Grogan of the Inquirer wrote some time ago that he believed P.A. House Speaker Perzel had been abducted by aliens and replaced by some robotic individual even more disconnected from reality than Perzel himself (hard to imagine, I know).

After reading this story, I think the robot is still calling the shots.

Awww, some of our legislators are trying to dig out from massive debt and, well, gosh darn it…they wouldn’t have to if those pesky voters had just let them get away with that illegal, unvouchered-expense pay raise last year, huh?

Earth to John: Welcome to Life In These United States Under Your Party And George Dubya Bush! This is the consequence of all of those tax breaks for your corporate buddies. If they don’t foot the bill, guess who ends up getting stuck with it?

Assuming that it’s possible for a tattoo artist to pull in the kind of dough Perzel is talking about (under an absolute best-case scenario, no doubt) does Perzel seriously believe that a Philadelphia tattoo artist enjoys anything that approximates the bennies that come with a job in state government?

Another thing: Perzel is charging taxpayers of this state 5 large a month on public relations as a result of the well-deserved negative press from the pay raise fiasco. Somehow I don’t think this latest episode of his was dreamed up by the agency on the receiving end trying to give him his makeover. If so, they should be cut loose sooner than later (actually, that should happen and the taxpayers should be reimbursed for the money the agency received).

Can someone please explain why on earth the voters of Perzel’s district would actually return this clown to his job?