Entries for the 'O'Misery in O'Maryland' Category

There are days when I have to wonder what O’Guvnah is up to.  Not two months after calling a totally unneeded and worthless Special Session that launched a new round of rapacious and devastating taxation on the State of Maryland, O’Guvnah is now in the process of screwing over every single Maryland regardless of class, color, race, creed, or income level.

The goose that has been laying the golden egg in Maryland politics as of late has been the computer services industry.  The state has seen unprecedented growth in this industry since 2001 -- largely due to increased Federal spending on IT services required by the War on Terror -- but it all trickles down to provide businesses in and around the state outstanding services and spin-off businesses.  It also has dramatically increased income tax collections, since these employees (like myself) typically earn more than manufacturing and government jobs.

But O'Guvnah's computer services sales tax -- added in the dark hours of the Special Session by his dark lords in the Senate and House -- are about to kill that goose.

The numbers are rolling in today, and there is VERY BAD news for O'Guvnah and his Dark Servants in Soddom on the Severn.  It is starting to look like the dramatic tax increases from the SOCIALIST SESSION back in November have backfired in a HUGE way.

Will they or won't they repeal the computer services sales tax?  It's an important question, because Comptroller Peter Franchot will face an enforcement nightmare on July 1 if the legislature doesn't step up to do the right thing.

Why?  Well, that's simple.  Because a group of jackassess wrote the law.

The speed camera bill is moving forward in the General Politburo this week, which would allow the use of speed cameras in work zones.  They did amend it so that volunteer firefighters were exempted, but the bill moves forward.

And the question is: why?

Hypocrites live large in the Maryland State House.  O'Guvnah and the Wannabee (that would be Comptroller Peter Franchot) are two of the biggest, most substantial lying sacks of putrifying human flesh in the state.  Liberal lefties like these two -- joined by Man Perm Mike Miller, Mikey "Double Dipping" Busch and their hordes of ignorant sycophants in the General Politburo always tow the "party line" about the evils of companies that outsource jobs to foreign countries.

But what do they say when IT IS THEIR FAULT?

The Maryland Senate, who takes no pain in soddomizing the citizenry of Maryland on a daily basis, continues to throw us all under the bus when it comes to energy policy.  Today, they gave us the glorious right of being informed when utilitiy companies up and decide to add a surcharge to our bills to pay for "energy efficiency programs".

I have a question:  whatever happened to contract law in this state?  With an entire chamber all but filled with whoring, ambulance chasing attorneys, you would think that tort and contract law would be something they might be concerned about.

Apparently, no.  Because the Maryland Senate is not smarter than a 5th grader.  Or a five year old.

O'Guvnah will go down in history as the governor of Maryland that presided over the destruction of the state's economy and quality of life, unless he begins to learn a little economic theory.  I suggest he start with Part I of the Center for Freedom and Properity's series on the Laffer Curve:

The Wild Turkey Phone was ringing off the hook this morning, as the Grim Reaper was in Annapolis knocking on O'Guvnah's door.  It turns out there was a Maryland Department of Transportation pre-bid meeting on a massive technology project today (as the Anti-Computer Services Sales Tax Rally was going on).

And guess who showed up?  Representatives from Pennsylvania's Department of Economic Development, inviting all those companies attending to come on up to PA for a meeting on how they could relocate to Pennsylvania -- because Pennsylvania is pro-business, pro-technology, and low tax.

That's right.  Pennsylvania set representatives of their Department of Economic Development to a Maryland STATE GOVERNMENT pre-bid meeting to recruit companies to move to Pennsylvania.

Well played, Pennsylvania.  Screw you, O'Guvnah.

On Red Maryland, my fellow contributor Brian Griffiths points out an article on Hometown Annapolis that Kevin Clarke's attorneys plan to depose O'Guvnah as Clarke's lawsuit against the City of Baltimore moves forward.

Depositions are very interesting, because in most cases -- as Brian points out -- nothing is out of bounds.

Which leads to the possibility that we may finally be able to prove what intelligent people have known all along:  the Ehrlich campaign in general, and Joe Steffen in particular, were not responsible for starting the rumors about O'Guvnah being a tomcat.  In fact, the rumors started in O'Guvnah's own pool of sycophant supporters.

This is only the beginning.