Our New Backwardness Draws National Attention

Charles P. Pierce, writing in Esquire magazine, takes note of the mississippification of North Carolina currently going on in Raleigh and the brutal illogic behind Gov. Pat McCrory's signing this week of the law that dismantles unemployment insurance in the state and throws 400,000 out-of-work citizens under the proverbial bus.

The line that must swell His Irrelevance's heart with pride: "...Governor Pat McCrory has made it clear that, by cracky, he's not going to be out-peckerwood-ed by those folks one state down 95 [South By Gawd Carolina]."

"Out-peckerwood-ed." Good one, because it's true.

FOOTNOTE
One comment in particular under Mr. Pierce's essay deserves dissemination:

Brett Freeman

There must be something in the water up in Raleigh. As a reporter in the Charlotte area I interviewed McCrory a few times and sat through way too many meetings over which he presided, and I knew the NC house speaker reasonably well when he was just a humble town commissioner in Cornelius. I didn't see eye to eye with them on a lot of issues, but I also thought they were both reasonable, pragmatic people. I've watched in absolute horror as they've basically ignored what's going on in the state in favor of pursuing the national party's ideological agenda. At a time when unemployment was above 10% in NC, Tillis made an amendment banning gay marriage his top priority, even while admitting that he fully expected it to be overturned within 10 years. With unemployment still well above the national average, McCrory's solution is to lube up and tell the jobless to bend over. What dicks.