Big Ed Rendell, Our State Jester

Gov. Ed Rendell Fires At Reporters

"Are you nuts, Jon? Are you nuts?," Rendell said.

"As a media person you should say, 'This is ridiculous, it's 42 cents a year folks. This isn't a tax it's 42 cents a year.'

" He added: "Any fair reporter should take that press release and mock it. They should report to their citizens that this is a joke.

" Rendell told Jon that his budget really did not include tax increases because the fees it contains on cigarettes, electricity and property insurance are just pennies.

Ha Ha, Big Ed, you're right, its a joke!. You know how to have us rolling in the aisles. Pennies are nothing, right? They don't add up to anything, do they? I mean pennies are only money, right?