I don't think Ed Rendell's a lame duck at this point. I think he's been a lame brain for seven years.

Here's a sampling of some of my favorite comments left on The Mercury's Sound Off line. You can read the Sound Off column every day at the newspaper's Web site under Opnion.

I don't think Ed Rendell's a lame duck at this point. I think he's been a lame brain for seven years. Pennsylvania has suffered every year under him and now the workers are out of pay.

To One Who Knows or thinks he or she knows, Obama and his cronies have taken this country down more in six months than all the administrations before him. Open your eyes.

So you think Obama care is a good idea? Look at the studies that show survival rates for several types of cancer up to 10 percent lower in countries with socialized medicine and that you are almost 20 percent more likely to die after major surgery if you can live long enough to have the surgery scheduled at all. Whoopee, sign me up. Of course Obama, Barney Frank and Pelosi have their own separate health care system.

Does anybody wonder why this administration is getting so much done? Because there's 34 czars. That's 34 ideas other than Obama's and the Congress and the Senate. And nobody has control over it. I can't envision all these changes happening in such a short period. And you know why? Because the Democrats know that if they don't get it done now, they'll never get it done. This will be their last chance.

I thought we were in a recession. I got two letters from the president for donations. He's got to be kidding. By the way, I lost my job.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Americans googled, texted, Wii'd, MP3'd, twittered, cell phoned, Utube'd, became mesmerized by trash TV, aka, cellevision, etc. All this while America burns. Could the distraction possibly be purposeful? Nah.

Obamacare equals layoffs, closed businesses, higher costs and rationed medical care. We need none of these. Any senator or congressman who votes for this bill needs to be removed from office. In New York, the total tax burden on the average citizen adds up to 60 percent of their income. If we allow this insane spending to continue, we will all be paying over half our money in taxes.

I agree with the person who wrote in about looting of Social Security. If the government had kept their hands out of Social Security and Medicare, we would not be in the bind we are in today. We are told that we don't get Social Security increases because of the economy. The Social Security fund would have no problems at all if the government had left it alone instead of borrowing from it for their many other debts. It makes no sense to me for government to have their hands in everything they do.