CHAMBERSBURG PUBLIC OPINION: Republicans essentially gained free rein to run the show in Pennsylvania. Their hard-won control of the U.S. House of Representatives gives them a fine stage upon which to choreograph their own solutions to the nation’s problems…
How are we going to fix a state budget billions in the hole? Tax cuts, reduced spending? OK! Where? For whom? By how much? What has to be cut? By how much? Who’s getting the shaft?…
It’s cheap and easy to rail against government, but it’s expensive and difficult to run one. The people who rose to power Tuesday on an anti-government, anti-spending platform will quickly face many choices between their rhetoric and a reality they perhaps failed to anticipate… (more)