Monday Stuff

It’s a bit late to do anything about #3 here, but there’s a lot of other good voting info in this video…



…and I haven’t had much of anything to say about Bob Casey, who is running for re-election tomorrow as one of PA’s U.S. senators, the other being the thoroughly wretched “No Corporate Tax” Pat Toomey.

I guess one of the reasons is because, as nearly as I can tell, Casey hasn’t done a good job with social media (maybe wrong?), but apparently he’s run a few T.V. ads to make up for it. That’s not to deny the fact that I think he’s done a good if unspectacular job; maybe he inflated his role in keeping the Harley Motorcycle plant in York, but at least he did something about the potential job loss (puts the lie to one of those ridiculous claims, the one about Casey supposedly being a "job killer"). He also was chiefly responsible for securing an extension into this year of a 2 percent payroll-tax cut for 150 million wage earners. Casey also got $250 million added to the new health-care law for pregnant women in need of more acute care. Tom Smith, on the other hand, is a no-exceptions extremist on abortion, having bizarrely compared a pregnancy resulting from rape with having a child out of wedlock here (like too many other Republicans). Also, coming from a "big coal" background, Smith would do his best to gut any environmental legislation, which, again, makes him a typical Republican (just keep convincing yourself that climate change had nothing to do with Sandy)...



…and lest I forget, let’s all go out and support Steve Santarsiero also tomorrow, running for re-election as our state representative for PA-31 (noted here)…



…and don’t forget to help Kathy Boockvar also (and if you want a reason to vote against Mikey the Beloved, take your pick from here)…



…and though I wish Number 44 hadn’t dismissed public-sector employment here so quickly (I honestly don’t think that was his intention, however), I definitely agree with the rest of what he said here, and I think President Obama makes a good case for another term...



…and I have kind of a mixed record with this pre-voting motivational (sort of) video, but here it is again anyway, for what it’s worth – leave everything in the road tomorrow, people!