Today's opinions

• Tom Ferrick goes after Rick Santorum in today's Inquirer, opining that he is more trouble for himself than any opponent could ever hope to be, not least for his obvious hypocrisy (or is that flip-flopping?) on several key issues. His suggestion about an alternative debate forum would sound familiar to fans of Steven Colbert's feature "Formidable Opponent" (e.g., this)...
  
  
• Governor Rendell has offered new budget (after vetoing the one passed originally), which highlights some business tax cuts and picks up the slack from cut federal health care programs. [He also took a jab at partisan redistricting; look for more on this later.] Ben Waxman at YPP takes umbrage at what he sees as further Rendell pandering to the right.
  
  
• An Inquirer editorial calls on U.S. legislators to make the most of their "do-over" opportunity in working on the federal budget, and picks out several regional Representatives that it thinks voted in ways that would harm some of our most vulnerable citizens. If any of these legislators represent you, a phone call might go a long way.