PA Gov. Wolf Caves on Budget Deal After 9 Mo. of Temper Tantrums
In the end, the recalcitrant and rabidly partisan Tom Wolf, governor of Pennsylvania, delayed his state's budget for nine months...for nothing. He didn't get his precious high Marcellus (or state income) tax hikes. He didn't get pretty much anything he demanded. Like a petulant child stomping his feet and blaming every Republican he could find--in the end everyone saw Wolf for what he is: inept, inexperienced, and unprepared to govern the Keystone State. Like leadership-deficient people throughout history, he's surrounded himself with suck-ups who won't give him much-needed counsel that goes against his childish demands. They just tell him he's right and to stick with it. Which has resulted in a disaster for PA. It was PA's Democrats, in the end, that forced Wolf's hand. Those in his own party. (Et tu, Brute?) PA's Democrat legislators told Wolf if he didn't allow the latest budget proposal to pass, they would vote with Republicans to override his threatened veto. And that would completely unmask him for the leaderless chump he is. So Wolf won't veto the latest proposal--which contains no new taxes--allowing it to become law. Thank you to PA Republicans for standing firm and WINNING! The media can't spin it, the Dems can't spin it--Wolf lost and the Republicans won. Every citizen in PA is a winner because of it...
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