Why does Rick Perry hate the unemployed?

We know he doesn’t believe in evolution, by some of the company he keeps, so he can’t believe that people are unemployed due to Social Darwinism.

Maybe, like some of his Religious Right friends, he believes in the success gospel, in prosperity theology, and so he thinks they’re cursed.

It’s clear, though, that he, along with fellow Southern Republican wingnut governors, hates the unemployed.

Let’s hope the 2010 elections give him a reason to hate himself.

And, if state unemployment eligibility rules get nationalized in the process, GREAT!

SCATblogging the Obama stimulus plan

All of you who doubt my Friday SCATblogging genius at snarkily one-upping catblogging will now have to think again! Seneca County (Ohio) Agency Transportation, or SCAT, hopes to get Obama stimulus money for three vehicles and a new dispatch system.

And, this ain’t just SCAT change, either. It’s $1.225 million the agency seeks.

More seriously, read the full story for how one relatively small-population northern Ohio county is already trying to get its ducks in a row to try to land the extra federal largesse.