Go Doug Shields!  Fight for what's right, not just politically expedient.  I am so sick of capitulation I could vomit.  The Marcellus Shale warlords want to be taxed at 1.5%!!!!!!

The story of screwing the average Pennsylvanian resident never ends and this time it rolls down from Ed Rendell through the sorry excuse for a PA Senate and down to our local environmental stewards slavish City Councilors.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085747-28.stm

The Democrats deserve a complete ass whipping in November.  There's no getting around it.  They are the party of nothing.