A “TIPPING POINT” is that moment in any venture, trend or course of action when change becomes irreversible.

State House Democratic Leader Bill DeWeese, already embattled by a spreading legislative scandal, might have arrived at his. Yesterday, a fellow Democrat, the deputy speaker and a leading voice for legislative reforms, Montgomery County Rep. Josh Shapiro, called for DeWeese’s head.

Whether self-promoting opportunism, a show of splendid political cojones or maybe a little of both, it was, undeniably, an attention-getter.

Question is, does it work?

“I believe it is imperative that Bill DeWeese resign as House majority leader,” Shapiro said in a statement he read to reporters in the lobby of the Capitol newsroom.

The statement was blistering.  read more »