There was a great post last week on Arkansas Project about some of the projects some Arkansas mayors are devising with the promise of all the stimulus money the government is magically pulling out of it’s broke ass.

Mayor Redus has one of the more ridiculous stimulus project proposals out there right now — a water park. For those of you who aren’t subject to this guy’s blundering and thus are blissfully ignorant of just who Redus is, I offer the following description: Imagine a black George W. Bush with a lobotomy scar, snacking on ranch-flavoured lead paint chips and  washing them down with mercury everyday after nap time — that’s Redus. Some of us in the newsroom at PBC call him Re-do, though I was always partial to just plain Retard or the slightly more creative Redum.

Anyway, The New York Daily News calls this water park stroke of genius “one of the most inane bailout requests” in the nation:

Getting water to citizens seems like a valid use of taxpayer money. But when it’s getting water to them in the form of a water park – that might not be quite so valid.
That’s exactly what Pine Bluff, Arkansas is doing. They’ve asked the federal government for $1.4 million to build a children’s water park, according to the 2009 Main Street Economic Recovery Report.

It’s harder and harder these days to take Redus seriously in his own city (some of us never have), but now he’s making a joke of Pine Bluff (apparent city motto: Any publicity is good publicity.) on the national stage. Yes, ladies and gents, this functionally illiterate mouth breather was actually re-elected — a Greek word that literally translates to “to elect again” —
by the obviously well-informed voters of our fair city. Can you say blind leading the blind?