Playing politics
on the state's dime
Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett is:
(1) Prosecuting people for campaigning on state time.
(2) Campaigning on state time.
Gubernatorial candidate Corbett, along with officials of other states, is filing a suit against the new health-care bill. ("Corbett's folly," yesterday).
This lawsuit is obviously frivolous.
It is equally obvious that Corbett's lawsuit is a campaign ploy, designed to win support in the upcoming primary election. However, Corbett is using the office of the attorney general to carry out this stunt.
This is, therefore, a misuse of the public's resources.
This is what Corbett is prosecuting others for at this very moment. When our attorney general breaks the law, who prosecutes him?
Robert Baillie
State College
Corbett ignores
voter sentiment
By 55 percent to 44 percent, Pennsylvania voters helped to elect President Obama over Sen. John McCain. A keystone of President Obama's campaign was his vow to reform health care. Therefore, I am outraged by Attorney General Tom Corbett's vow to join with other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to challenge health-care reform legislation.
His action can only be viewed as a cynical, purely political waste of much-needed state resources to bolster his standing with conservatives in the Republican gubernatorial primary.
Suzanne Fluhr
Bala Cynwyd
JustOneBoomer@gmail.com
Pelosi is guilty
of wasting resources
In response to your editorial Wednesday in which you describe Attorney General Tom Corbett's action against Obamacare as wasting resources and playing politics, those two phrases describe the exact way in which this cumbersome and costly bill was passed.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used tax dollars to bribe, cajole, and coerce support for a bill no one understands. You have joined with Congress in an arrogant and condescending tone toward the American people in the belief that only government knows what is good for us, and that we should be beholden to Congress for its vain leadership.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Congress acts as if it were given a mandate with a bill that passed by a slim margin. I applaud Corbett for doing what he was hired to do: protecting citizens' rights.
John F. Bielicki
Philadelphia
MackTheKnife907@aol.com
Attorney general
is doing his job
