jimmshorts's definitions

inertia whore

A politician or oligarch who sells himself and sells out egalitarian ideals in order to maintain an illussion of status quo while hoarding resources and retaining power within familiar institutions, albeit diseased and and unsustainable ones.

The temporary 2004 tax cuts which morphed into the 2012 hedging to waylay equitable tax reform keeping prolonged focus on the "fiscal cliff" and simultaneously characterising U.S. pensions (Social Security) as a contributory cause for federal deficit prove John Boehner to be such an inertia whore.

by jimmshorts January 3, 2013