Is Corbett the new Christie?

In January, Pennsylvania will have a new governor. Democrat Ed Rendell will be replaced by conservative Republican Tom Corbett.

In his victory speech on Tuesday night, Corbett hailed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as a role model.

So what has this role model done for the Garden State since taking office in January of this year? Let's take a look and see what kinds of things we might have to look forward to here in the Keystone State:

• He slashed funds for education and various other public services that benefit the "little people", while at the same time giving huge tax breaks to New Jerseyans making more than $400,000 per year.

• He "took a wrecking ball to the state's touted Global Warming Response Act," according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Specifically, says PEER, the Christie administration "has blocked required reporting from greenhouse gas sources, diverted $300 million in Clean Energy Funds dedicated to energy efficiency and proposed to zero out the state’s Office of Climate Change and Energy."

• Then he vetoed a bill that would have provided $7.5 million for women's health clinics around the state, causing some 40,000 low-income women to lose services such as birth control and health screenings because of the cut.

You see, it's all about eliminating what's inconvenient for big business and instead inconveniencing the rest of us.

After all, we little people can't afford to fight back.

Or at least that's what the plutocrats are counting on.