[gkruCRi1]

C'mon guys. Laying this crap on liberals and Democrat Rendell doesn't hunt. As governor, Rendell must take responsibility but it would be just as easy to blame the Reps here. Everyone knows the real whole picture. PennDOT has been an independent arrogant incompetent agency forever and both parties are responsible for that. The state Congress was totally Republican controlled for the past 12 years and Republican Tom Ridge was in charge for a lot of it. Yet, the Reps supported the illegal pay raise, rose taxes several times, refused to cut property taxes, etc. But, they are always there for nanny state stuff like smoke bans, trans fat bans, etc. And Rendell is libertarian on business. Heck, many Reps even opposed the casinos, wanting the revenue to keep going to New Jersey and the Indian casinos. The problem here, IMO, is that the Reps act like 1970 Dems too much. I often can't tell who is more ideologically Rep or Dem just by the official label. The Dems obviously hold offices and seats here too and have their problems like the Reps, but it is the real crappy system we have that is gerrymandered and rewards red tape beaurocracy that causes these types of dropped balls.