Empty suit

 

Empty suit

       This one is as simple as the man it was used to demean. "Empty suit" describes a man who has little in brainpower but a prominent position in society.  This mostly included guys who were wealthy or entitled with little reason for being in places they did not earn. The chief of the empty suits was Greg's hated president George W. Bush who at the time was considered the dumbest chief executive of all time. This has changed as has the title of emptiest of suits has changed. "W" was Greg's whipping boy for 8 years and he railed against the supply-side economic policies the phony Christian right espoused along with what our Sheehy referred to as the "Tinkle down theory" of economics. That false narrative started by another hated empty suit named Ron Reagan involved a linguistic double switch where the poor got screwed but were told the tax breaks given to the rich would trickle down to them. It never trickled but the wealthy did stand on high and piss down on the poor, thus the tinkle down theory. In his red-faced prime in these years Greg would shout and curse at anything issued from the Bush-Cheney camp. The jingoistic singing of "America the Beautiful" at baseball games was just one more of the bullshit rituals that administration cooked up to appear 100% American.