O’Guvnah is Maryland’s latest perfect example of the Peter Principle: that in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to the level of his incompetence. 

If you thought we were done with this after former Governor Parris “Tomcat” Glendenning and Lt Governor KKT, you were wrong. Time and the Democrats march on.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is gasping for air tonight.  Yes, her flooding the zone strategy worked perfectly in South Carolina, and could have helped her capture the white Democrat vote across the rest of the Old Confederacy.  Her Hispanic vote was solid, and she was getting a lot more traction with the unionized base than John "Ambo Chasing" Edwards.

And then the white elephant entered the room.

O'Guvnah is a HUGE supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton.  So is Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the only Democrat candidate for Governor to lose to a Republican in 40 years.  But O'Guvnah is also governor of the state which is home to the NAACP, and some pretty powerful black politicians like his Lt. Governor Anthony Brown, Congressman Elijah Cummings, and others.

So what does it say when YOUR candidate suddenly allows her husband to carry the water on a racial attack on another presidential candidate for your party's nomination?

For O'Guvnah and the rest of the Maryland Democrat Party, it says little.

<insert sound of crickets chirping here>

A lot has been made of what will happen to the so-called "Reagan Coalition" if certain candidates become the Republican nominee.  If Rudy wins (highly unlikely at this point), will Conservative Christians bolt?  If McCain wins (ugh), will Conservatives bolt?  If Huckabee wins, will economic conservatives bolt?  If Romney wins, will national security conservatives bolt?

And it is true-- there is GREAT risk in the Republican process, but there ALWAYS is, because the Republican Party is not nearly as homogeneous as the Drive By Media wants people to think.  The different factions in the Party are constantly at each other's throats, working out the tensions between varying degrees of right-of-center policies and politics. 

But I think the more interesting debate is over in the Democrat Party, which has built its own coalition of special interests not based on policy prescriptions and ideas, but on identity politics: who you are, what you are, and what you do.  And that "who you are" focus, based largely on race, has the potential to really rip the Dems apart this year.

Today's lesson on Day 27: O'Misery in O'Maryland is on Public Service Commission Patronage.  What is patronage?  for those of you who can't remember back to your high school years, or didn't pay attention, or didn't bother to go, patronage is the purely political act of giving government jobs to your political supporters.

It seems that as people read more and more in Fiscal 2009 Budget (that is the budget year that begins on July 1, 2008), we find more and more political patronage from the hands of O'Guvnah.

Bill Clinton -- America's so-called "First Black President" -- continues the racialism of the Clintonian Juggernaut.  Thanks to Jake Tapper over at Political Punch, we know what he had to say after Barak Obama's victory in South Carolina tonight:

Said Bill Clinton today in Columbia, SC: "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jackson ran a good campaign.  And Obama ran a good campaign here."

This was in response to a question about Obama saying it "took two people to beat him." Jackson had not been mentioned.

Boy, I can't understand why anyone would think the Clintons are running a race-baiting campaign to paint Obama as "the black candidate."

I've said it before (here and here), and I will say it again:  Bill and Hillary Clinton are racialists.  They use race to divide, as a wedge issue.  The introduce it to gain a political advantage.  They harp on it, the prey it on it.  They use it for their own advantage, not to lift up.  Not to draw parallels.

This just in from Hell:  Satan Called, and said D.C. Stephenson was partying hard.

This just in from Atlanta:  Earthquake hits city.  National Geological Survey believes it is from high-velocity of revolutions of Martin Luther King rolling in his grave.

John McCain has started a brand new attack against Mitt Romney, claiming he was for timetables before he was against them.  It's a pretty egregious lie when you look at what McCain said and what Romney really said.

For a man so concerned about personal "honor", you would think he might come up with a better angle of attack, or at least "choose Zone 5 and extend and escape"*.

Michelle Malkin has all the details here.

* Can you name the movie this quote is from?

John McCain believes in complete and total amnesty for illegal aliens.  I don't care what he says, because we all know that politicians lie.  And powerful politicians lie powerfully.  I am more interested in his actions, and with the endorsement of amnesty-loving Florida Governor Charlie Crist, the amnesty argument should move front and center for "Reasons to Not Only Vote Against, But to Despise John McCain".

What's the difference between the Maryland GOP in the General Assembly and the French Army?

The Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter is reporting that Baltimore City Schools Chief Andres Alonso is proposing that the schools pay up to $110 per student if they increase their scores on the state graduation exams.

It has finally come to this: full surrender.  The public schools of Baltimore City can longer educate the children in their charge, and their parents (when there are any who aren't hopped up or stinking drunk) can't make them learn, so now we will bribe them.