Want to solve Pennsylvania's $1.5 billion budget deficit?
Forget spending cuts.
It's time to get creative.
I'm suggesting a pay-per-view WWE match pitting Gov. Tom Corbett vs. Attorney General Kathleen Kane.
Yeah, I'm thinking you might not want to invite these two to your summer barbecue.
These two are quickly building a grudge match to match Ali vs. Frazier.
Which brings to mind one of the great quotes ever uttered. When Muhammad Ali was invited to light the torch to open the Summer Olympics in Atlanta in 1996, some enterprising reporter sought out his nemesis Frazier for a reaction. As usual, Joe came out 'Smokin.'
"I'd like to push him in," was Smokin' Joe's quick retort.
They eventually settled their differences.
Don't look for Kane and Corbett to do the same anytime soon.
This all started when Kane was running for attorney general, bidding to become the first Democrat - and first woman - ever to hold that office. She was successful, in no small part because she kept trumpeting her belief that Corbett dragged his feet when he was attorney general in the probe into child sex abuse allegations swirling around former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky.
Kane vowed one of her first acts as the state's top law enforcement officer would be to conduct an investigation of how Corbett handled the probe.
This week she delivered the goods - with decidedly mixed results.
While the report found no indication that politics played any role in the investigation, Kane could not resist zinging her predecessor - who just happens to be facing an uphill re-election fight - for 'inexplicable delays' in the probe. She criticized Corbett's decision to put the case in front of a grand jury, and even intimated there were other victims who may have been spared their ordeal if the investigation had moved quicker and Sandusky had been charged earlier.
Of course, none of this is sitting especially well with Corbett, and in particular those who handled the Sandusky case in the attorney general's office.
It's a continuation of the sniping that heated up when Kane deep-sixed a sting operation that seemed to snare several Democratic politicians in Philly accepting cash and other gifts from an undercover operative.
Kane is a new power player in the state Democratic Party, and it seems pretty clear she has big ambitions.
Kane vs. Corbett isn't going away any time soon.
In fact, Democrats may have to jog their memory to recall that Corbett isn't running against Kane. He's running against York businessman Tom Wolf.
But it's pretty clear he's going to be trading jabs with Kane right through the fall.
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