Philadelphia Daily News columnist John Baer buried this wonderful paragraph part of the way into his piece today about the imminent recess (without adopting a natural gas tax) of the Pennsylvania legislature:

“With today and tomorrow quite possibly the last meaningful days of the current two-year legislative session, it appears that the nation’s largest, most expensive Legislature is again pushing its self-protection, self-indulgence and, of course, re-election.”

How could anyone have skipped the column had he used it as the lead?

You won’t have to.  Read it by clicking here

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