Ed Spendell Strikes Again

Spending other people's money right to the end, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendel, who leaves office Jan. 18, has announced $488 million in pork spending using borrowed money.

Rendell is leaving with a projected $4 billion budget deficit. Heckavu job, Ed.

Rendell's spending orgy is not without its critics:

"It's not something taxpayers should foot the bill for," Harrisburg activist Gene Stilp told The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "In the end this governor (Rendell) will be known as a "wuss" because he was basically a "wuss" on reform."

Stilp was playing off Rendell's nationally publicized comments of two weeks ago that the country has become "a nation of wussies."

Check out the list of pet projects in The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.