Sound Policy Idea

Sonny Perdue is a major-league rainmaker.

What to do when the rain won’t come? If you’re Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, you pray.

The governor will host a prayer service next week to ask for relief from the drought gripping the Southeast.

“The only solution is rain, and the only place we get that is from a higher power,” Perdue spokesman Bert Brantley said on Wednesday.

To quote Steve Benen: "It’s the 21st century. I just thought I’d mention that."

If the rain prayer doesn't work, I believe next week Gov. Perdue will paint half of his body blue to ward off evil spirits.

Dependent upon a statement of support from the legislature, of course.

(Just to make this a little bit about politics and not mockery, conservative ideology is so bereft of solutions that a "faith-based initiative" like this is about the only thing they can manage)