Senate “Leadership” Results
According to my friend Chris Lilik at www.grassrootspa.com, the Pennsylvania Senate has installed Sen. Scarnati as it’s new Pro-Temp.
So let’s take a moment and tally things up here. First you have the voters who got rid of 1/4 the incumbents up for election because of their arrogance. You also have an unemployed Supreme Court Justice. The people have been doing some house cleaning.
On the other side you have a spineless State House and Senate which re-instated the same people (or their puppets) that got the members into the situation in the first place. You also have a Supreme Court Justice which plans on retiring, but does so arrogantly claiming that judges should not be subject to the people. You also have a State Party Chairman who won’t resign even though the Party suffered two butt-kickings at the state level.
Hmm, where does that leave us? Well, pretty much where we were on the day of the imfamous pay raise. It’s the same leadership, with an even bigger case of arrogance. The people thought they corrected this problem - but the establishment refuses to listen.
There is a term for this - it’s called stubborn. And because of this stubbornness, the entire Republican party will continue to suffer - both sides will see to that. The establishment complains about reformers willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater, but the establishment is doing the exact same thing by their act of stubbornness. What we are about to see in Pennsylvania over the next two years is the destruction of the Republican Party. But I would argue that this destruction is necessary because the Party is plagued with arrogance. Once the party is torn down, it can be rebuilt from the bottom up.
When I look at the state of the Republican Party here in Pennsylvania, it makes me sick. I can’t wait for the 2008 primaries. I’ll only be working on campaigns that are set on removing incumbents.
November 20th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
Matt, this is troubling news to the reform movement.
I personally have to say maybe some have put there eggs in the wrong basket.
I have documented the mistakes of conservative reformers for the past year.
There should have been a Reform summit before the elections. Individuals refuse to listen to others in the conservative reform movement like ourselves.
And now this is where we find ourselves. Reform will only occur if the reform message is taken to the people. Lilik’s mistake. Too much pay raise and not enough Roadmap to Reform. Heck even today GrassrootsPA used the pay raise to slam Scarnati. They have gone to the pay raise well too many times my friend and missed the reform boat.
Too bad, because if they would have worked together with others there could have been a powerful reform movement in PA.
November 21st, 2006 at 2:19 pm
I’m shocked that even with a supreme court justice ousted, 2 Senate leaders ousted, and 1/4 new leglislators, they pick the same rotten oath breaking, tax raising leaders!?!?
It’s time for another primary!!