shimkus

(v) to reverse cause and effect in order to create confusion in the subject being interrogated.

"Do you believe that as costs go up, supply goes down?"
--John Shimkus(R), Illinois to Lisa Jackson, US EPA Administrator, on 2/9/11 in a congressional forum. To which she replied, “It depends on the elasticity of the cost curve.”

by Capital Crescent February 11, 2011