As a blogger I somewhat dread August because of the dearth of material. Both Harrisburg and Washington recess for the summer month and everyone escapes to the mountains, beaches, or the latest Congressional pages they've been able to seduce. President Bush goes to his "ranch" where he can continue ignoring warnings about dire threats to the country, impending hurricanes, and distraught mothers.
In Pennsylvania August will be spent agonizing over all the roads and bridges we've been neglecting. Congressmen John Peterson and Phil English are very eager to disappear somewhere and hide after their extremely ill timed attack on the Governor's plan to fund infrastructure improvements and repairs. How bad does your luck get than these two obstructionists? They introduced legislation blocking tolls on I-80, tolls which would fund major road and bridge improvements then the bridge in Minneapolis collapses. I think Phil English's re-election prospects collapsed with that bridge. Oops. Has he fled the country yet?
Meanwhile the crew here will do our best to keep you entertained with the latest commentary on antics and activities of the rich and famous. We'll turn on a dime, chase our assistants down freeways then write it off as being someone else's cocaine. We are planning to expand the blog exponentially by making it easier for poorer readers to come here. No money down, no ads, no restrictive paperwork in order to qualify. We call it our "sub prime readership plan" and virtually everyone qualifies regardless of your situation.
We'll follow that with a major stock issue, package bundles of readers together in marketable securities then declare bankruptcy and flee to Bermuda when it all collapses. Tort reform laws will protect us from all your lawsuits and the beach front mansions and security will protect us from the lone wolves who dare track us down. If that doesn't work we'll blackmail a few Senators who made use of our DC escort service and new laws will spring forth preventing you even from filing from bankruptcy.
As you can see I have August all planned out and when cold weather arrives I'll be ready and primed to flee from the law escape to the nicest beach in Costa Rica (no extradition treaty). Party on!
Are you reneging on that month-long, all expenses paid PaProgressivePalooza Cruise you promised us? <8O)
Posted by: Melissa | August 04, 2007 at 11:56 AM
M, John's sorry, but the Iraqi parliament already has booked the ship.
Posted by: Lee Levan | August 04, 2007 at 12:12 PM
Damn it! I already had my bags packed....
Posted by: Melissa | August 04, 2007 at 12:16 PM
After that National Review cruise I was afraid to do something quite so risky. Lee's correct in that the Iraqi parliament has booked all luxury accomodations for the month.
Posted by: John Morgan | August 04, 2007 at 02:42 PM
Can't you have a contest or something to liven things up?
Posted by: Melissa | August 04, 2007 at 03:19 PM
Bernie O'Hare had a cute caption contest recently so perhaps we could do something like that. We need to keep everyone awake until Labor Day!
Posted by: John Morgan | August 04, 2007 at 05:35 PM
Yeah, I saw Bernie's caption contest. We need some intermittent fun like that in between having our rights stolen and violated. LOL ;-)
Posted by: Melissa | August 04, 2007 at 05:44 PM
John,
Don't forget, Casey is gonna run away and hide now as well. He's a coward. I want my vote back!!
Posted by: Ghost of Tom Joad | August 04, 2007 at 10:47 PM
He also isn't a man of his word. Honorable men don't break promises they make to support other candidates.
Posted by: John Morgan | August 04, 2007 at 10:51 PM
What promises did he break? I am curious. He seemed like he did good in his state job. Why has he gone off the rails so fast?
Posted by: Ghost of Tom Joad | August 05, 2007 at 12:37 AM
I watched Mr. Casey give his word he'd give his personal support to someone running this year. He has reneged on that promise.
Posted by: John Morgan | August 05, 2007 at 08:35 AM
"He seemed like he did good in his state job. Why has he gone off the rails so fast?"
His state offices were auditor general and teasurer. These were not policy making jobs nearly as much as administrative. His political views were not revealed in those offices; but they surely are evident now that he's in the senate.
Posted by: Lee Levan | August 05, 2007 at 11:56 AM
Casey hasn't gone off the rails, this is who he is and always has been. He's an extremely conservative Catholic.
Posted by: John Morgan | August 05, 2007 at 12:35 PM
John,
So what, exactly, makes him a Democrat? Was his old man this blind and stupid?
Posted by: Ghost of Tom Joad | August 05, 2007 at 01:07 PM
Casey is strong on labor issues. He's also an NRA candidate.
Posted by: John Morgan | August 05, 2007 at 01:32 PM