Perdue’s plan: Pray for rain

  If you saw this in a movie, you’d say it was too unbelievable.

But believe it: Your governor, who was re-elected with 60 percent of the vote of your fellow citizens, has an answer to Atlanta’s looming water shortage: Pray for rain.

And he just made his plan official by sending it out on government letterhead as official policy. Here it is verbatim, your tax dollars at work:

Governor Perdue to Host Prayer Vigil for Rain

ATLANTA – Governor Sonny Perdue will hold a public prayer vigil to pray for rain on the front steps of the State Capitol (Washington Street entrance) TUESDAY, November 13, 2007.

WHO: Governor Sonny Perdue

Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle

Representative Melvin Everson

Dr. Gil Watson, Senior Minister, Northside United Methodist Church

Dr. Maurice Watson, Senior Pastor, BeulahLand Bible Church

Dr. Benny Tate, Senior Pastor, Rock Springs Church

Mr. Ken Morrow, Member, Governor’s Agricultural Advisory Commission

WHAT: Prayer Vigil

WHEN: TUESDAY, November 13, 2007

11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

WHERE: Front Steps/Washington Street Entrance (Outdoors)

State Capitol

Atlanta, Georgia

I am not making this up. This just came into my inbox. This is your government and this is the best they can do. How do you feel about this? Nothing wrong with prayer, but is it a viable substitute for policy?

Keep in mind that Perdue is the same privatizing corporate crony who spearheaded our awful natural gas deregulation when he was in the General Assembly, who just tried to give away Jekyll Island to an upscale developer, and who in his years in the governor’s mansion has done absolutely nothing to rein in the extravagant suburban sprawl that has engulfed the entire northern half of the state, which is now nearly out of drinking water largely due to the state’s failure to plan.

And now that the excrement has hit the fan, Perdue’s solution is to do a rain dance?

Frankly I don’t know which Republican goofball is worse: Perdue, or his nemesis, House Speaker Glenn Richardson, who wants to replace property taxes with a sales tax, i.e., hello $8 a gallon milk. Between the two of them it’s making me seriously examine the job markets in other states — the ones that aren’t so damn red.

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