Rick Perry

I've written on Xmastime many, many times that Texas Governor is God's gift to the anti-intellectual, anti-gub'ment idiots of the country. He's been railing against the federal government for a while now, and gee, guess whose ass was bailed out by the big, evil federal gub'ment?

Texas Gov. Rick Perry likes to tell Washington to stop meddling in state affairs. He vocally opposed the Obama administration's 2009 stimulus program to spur the economy and assist cash-strapped states.

Perry also likes to trumpet that his state balanced its budget in 2009, while keeping billions in its rainy day fund.

But he couldn't have done that without a lot of help from ... guess where? Washington.

Turns out Texas was the state that depended the most on those very stimulus funds to plug nearly 97% of its shortfall for fiscal 2010, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Of course, the joke isn't on Perry. He's been made even richer and more powerful by pretending to be stupid and fighting windmills. The joke is on people who are stupid enough to admire and vote for Perry, demanding to be suffocated by his proud ignorance, and those that are determined to spread the virtue of stupidity.