PennDOT's priorities: The state Department of Transportation tipped its hat as to where its priorities are for reforming road, bridge and mass-transit funding. It put a panel's recommendations for tax hikes first in its news release this week. Then it rationalized the cost. But perhaps the most important recommendation -- competitive contracting in public transit -- wasn't mentioned until the 30th paragraph of the four-page release. Couldn't upset the unions, now could it?
Conservative conundrum: Says Ramesh Ponnuru, writing in National Review magazine: "(T)here is no imaginable political coalition in America capable of sustaining a majority that takes a reduction of the scope of the federal government as one of its central tasks." Sounds to us like our educational system has failed us and taught us this: Ask not what you can do for yourself; ask what your country can do for you.
Arlen's bad advice: We can always count on Sen. Arlen Specter to say exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time. The Philadelphia Republicrat says the GOP must move toward the political center to avoid another drubbing in 2008. Let's liberal up the party some more, Arlen. Yeah, that's the ticket: Take a principle-challenged party that had its clock cleaned in the midterm elections, strip it of any remaining conservative principles and win big in '08! Arlen, you're a bloody genius.
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