Corbett Administration Hasn't Done Anything Really Horrible or Stupid in a Week?

[JPZenger]

In the first time in memory, the Corbett Administration has apparently gone an entire 7 days without saying or doing something really horrible or stupid.

I guess the new and highly experienced communications staff inside the Governor's Office is doing their job. The Army calls this "Force Protection" - when you have your troops in a war zone stay in fortified bunkers for weeks before a Presidential Election, so that casualties don't appear in the news headlines. Lay very low, and don't get yourself shot.

[JPZenger]

1. Whoops... I spoke too soon - they tried out some weak attacks against natural gas extraction taxes

http://www.keystonepolitics.com/2013/09/swing-and-a-miss-for-the-corbett-campaign/

Excerpts:

"If Allyson Schwartz taxes the gas industry Pennsylvanians will lose good jobs because the gas industry will leave us!

Are you kidding me? Where are they going to go? Are they going to pick up their gas and leave? Oh wait, they can’t because it’s a natural resource. Unless they can pick up the land and move it somewhere else they aren’t taking their jobs anywhere. There’s debate about the number of actual jobs the gas industry is creating and maintaining in Pennsylvania, but refusing to regulate them or make any demands on them isn’t helping anyone but Gov. Corbett’s campaign fund.

You’d think that as interested as Republicans tend to be in legislating sexual morality that they’d know the age-old cautionary tale of the man who won’t buy the cow if he gets the milk for free. Well guess what? Pennsylvania is giving the natural gas industry all our milk for free and they aren’t going to just offer to put a ring on it out of the goodness of their hearts. And see, in this situation, it actually matters.

Governor Corbett had better up his game as the election gets into full swing because these attacks are some weak sauce and they’re only going to give him ground with people who are already on his side, and the number of people on his side are dwindling."