persiflage

As the Republican-dominated House and Senate continue to move their budget bills toward enactment, we’ve been hearing a lot of hypocritical persiflage about “able-bodied” Americans taking undue advantage of Medicaid and food stamps.

Maybe that shows that they’ve finally gotten wise to the PR persiflage of Big Pharma.

This is just PR persiflage, and you can safely ignore it.

None of this will keep Republicans and conservatives from attacking the reconciliation bill with smoke, mirrors and persiflage.

Notwithstanding the Tea Party persiflage about freedom of choice at the lightbulb counter, it’s probably more appropriate to see the issue as part and parcel of conservatives’ broader war on energy efficiency policies.