O'Guvnah is a big proponent of telling citizens where they should set their thermostats, how much they should drive, what types of cars they should drive, and how much electricity they should use.  It would be really nice if O'Guvnah could get his act together and push his own agencies to follow some of that advice.

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Brian Griffiths at Red Maryland does an excellent job pointing out the supreme fallacies of prevailing and living wage laws in the State of Maryland, and does a fair job of taking down the silly, childish claims of Secretary of Labor Tom Perez.

However, Brian left out a key reason for prevailing and living wage laws that goes back decades:  prevailing and and living wage laws squeeze out cheaper competitors and limit competition.  O'Guvnah is in favor of prevailing and living wage laws because he is a coporatist.

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Well, the word is out, and the Democrats in Maryland are beginning to eat their young.  The Special Session in November, and the regular session earlierthis year were spectacular failures.  Given the opportunity to really and truly cut government spending the General Assembly really blew it.

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If the Bootlicker Sun, official press outlet for the Emerald Emperor, is gong to carry O'Guvnah's water, they need to be a little more subtle about it.  They're article "Audit Seen as Threat to Medevac Overhaul" was a clear political puff piece written by someone in the Schaefer Building and handed over to Gadi Dechter at the Bootlicker.

If anything, this audit will be used by the Emerald Emperor to justify a costly upgrade and overhaul of the state's Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS) and the Aviation Division of the Maryland State Police.

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I have a new word that I would like to introduce to my fellow state employees:  "Duh!"

It is, believe it or not, typically a term of derision.  It is a shortened form of the phrase, "No shit, dumbass."  It could also be used in place "Who told you first Dick Tracey?"

So when I read this typical "man bites dog" article in the O'Guvnah Bootlicker Herald, I said to myself "Duh!"  And myself said back, "No shit, dumbass."

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We're moving on up!  Moving on up!  Here on the East Side!  To a deluxe tax status in the sky!  Cause we are Number Four!  The Terps may not make the Final Four this year, but we did!  We are in the top ten percent of the class!  Aren't you excited?

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Everyone stand up and applaud Paul J. Wiedefeld, the Maryland Mass Transit Administration head.  He has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that people rise to the leve of their incompetence.  For the third time in 2008, we have serious issue with MTA vehicles that puts a substantial part of their fleet at risk.

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The Maryland Public Service Commission is notorious for its fundamental inability to effectively regulate the energy business in Maryland.  And O'Guvnah O'Malley's inability to move beyond Progressive/Fascist mandates -- like compulsory subsidies for the sales of compact fluorescent bulbs -- is legion.

Government is lousy at picking winners and losers.  And the insistence that we all throw our incandescent bulbs in favor of mercury-laden CFLs is just another perfect example.  Why?  Because private industry is working hard to create another alternative:  LED-based light bulbs.

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As Brian Griffiths has already noted over at Red Maryland, O'Guvnah has pledged to spend $1.1 billion of your hard-earned money on new biotechnology research initiatives in order to make the state of Maryland a "hub" for this kind of work.

But what Brian doesn't get into, is why are we spending even more money when we already have a large and established set of incubators at Maryland's premier research institution -- the University of Maryland, Baltimore?

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Are you familiar with the Peter Principle, the certain people rise to their own level of incompetence?  Well, in Maryland we have the Porcari Principle, where certain politicians rise to an even higher level of incompetence.

It is named after Maryland Secretary of Transportation John D. Porcari, whose fundamental incompetence has been on full display these many months since O'Guvnah kissed the Blarney Stone and suckered the state into electing him Governor.

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