Steers … And A RINO
S.C. Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler unveiled his new website last week and yes, there’s a friggin’ cow on it. Several of them, actually. In fact, it’s impossible to click on a single page of Peeler’s new Internet home (farm?) without staring at a friggin’ steer from some vantage point.
To be fair, Sen. Peeler is a dairy man. But wouldn’t his vocation have made, say, these “cows” more appropriate? Our bet is Peeler would agree with us …
Anyway, our problem with Harvaldo’s website isn’t the curiously placed steers (which we kind of like), it’s the crap that comes out of them … specifically the utter and complete B.S. that Peeler keeps peddling about being a fiscal conservative.
From HarveyPeeler.com …
“We aren’t going to grow our economy if we keep growing government on the backs of our state’s businesses and working families. Government isn’t the solution, government is the problem.”
Sounds impressive, right? And obviously, those are two categorically true statements. The only problem is that neither of those statements are true when it comes to Harvey Peeler. Not a friggin’ word of them. That’s because while Harvey talks a good game about being a conservative, when he gets to the S.C. State House he turns around and votes in lockstep with the RINO wing of the Senate GOP Caucus.
“Reining in government spending, restructuring antiquated agencies and putting government practices under the microscope of public scrutiny are necessary steps toward getting this state back on track.”
Uh-huh … again, dude … show us, don’t tell us (if you can).
Peeler or his steer … which is more full of it?
Comments
By Brian on September 21st, 2009 at 12:40 am
I’m not drinking any of the Peeler “milk” that comes from one of those.
By Soft Sigh From Hell on September 21st, 2009 at 8:20 am
Just judging from those two photographs, the cow looks to be the sharper.
If I were casting for a barnyard oaf for a movie set in 1700s England or Ireland, my search would be ended.
By nocheapthing on September 21st, 2009 at 9:02 am
Does Peeler receive any farm subsidies? In which if any government programs does he participate that bring $$ to him, whether he farms or not?
By Dismayed on September 21st, 2009 at 11:59 am
I’m am sooooo tired of this “government is the problem” stuff. We can’t have a modern society without strong effective public and private institutions. It is easy to find examples of inefficiency in government, and it is equally easy to see major failures in the private sector. The whole “markets are self-regulating” dogma that goes with “government is the problem” is a triumph of faith over reason and evidence. Meanwhile, people who love their Medicare are terrified that someone else will get government health care, farmers who adore their subsidies are enraged about welfare mothers, banking corporations that have been bailed out on a monstrous scale complain about attempts at regulation to prevent another meltdown, and private businesses that could not flourish without government-supplied infrastructure complain like mad about having to pay taxes. It is just tiresome.
Debate the specific issues on the evidence, and stop this “government is the problem” RINO name-calling. South Carolina’s government is indeed very badly structured, and needs substantial reform. We also need to look at questions like why we’re locking up (and paying to support) so many people who don’t represent a danger to society at large. However, these are not reasons to do away with government, any more than the financial industry collapse due to a pay structure that rewards insane risk taking means we should do away with all private businesses.
By lkmurrayfan on September 21st, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Well said, Dismayed, well said. Unfortunately your comments will fall on deaf ears.
By Libb on September 21st, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Remember that “cow” brother Bob Peeler used to drag around behind his big ole red pickup truck? Heard the wife took a sledgehammer to it and the red truck when Bob ran off w/ the neighbor’s wife after his failed election bid.
Now that’s a cow picture I’d like to see.
By male sapphist on September 22nd, 2009 at 8:12 am
The cow thing is pretty funny. I doubt if they own cows. The Peelers were the ‘processor’ that took the raw milk from farmers, treated it, and boxed it up for sale. The processors are the ones that squeeze the family dairy farmer.
The Peelers have always seemed to be decent people. Bob Peeler should not have strayed from his wife but that happens in every strata.