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

As we roll into Day 10 of O'Misery in O'Maryland, we embrace the fundamental LACK of leadership that O'Guvnah represents.  He's less than a pretty face in the State House.  He's a Crackberry addict working hard to bring his spectacular string of failures from Baltimore City to the ENTIRE state of Maryland.

That's right, O'Guvnah's goal is to bring the same crime problems, budget problems, school problems, and cultural problems to the Entire State, from the golden seashore of Worcester County, the mountain majesty of Garrett County.

But today, I want to look at dumbass comment number 1,300,364,223 from O'Guvnah.

The board is set.  Every one grab your behinds and brace your jaw, because now that the General Assembly is in session, we are all about to bent over the table.

Instead of fixing the operations of state government to consume less, the General Assembly-- in all their glorious "kings for 90 days" stupidity -- will continue to spend, spend, spend.

For Maryland State Legislators, money is like heroin.  The more we give them, the more they want.  Don't believe me?  Show me a state office complex that ever gets smaller.

And since our legislature is DOMINATED by liberal Democrats, state government becomes just one more large welfare jobs program for the unions.

So bend over Maryland, grab the K-Y, and clamp down.  It's going to be a rough 90 days.

I was watching State Circle with Jeff Salkin on PBS last Thursday night (yes, conservatives do watch PBS... hey, we pay for it, too.) and I had to listen to Senate President Thomas "Mike" "Man Perm" Miller talk. 

Rarely in state politics do you hear one man speak so many so words, but say so little with so little meaning.

One of O'Guvnah's favorite tools to spur "economic development" when he was Mayor of Baltimore was the use of tax abatements and property tax breaks to prompt corporations to keep their headquarters (or at least major operations) in the City of Baltimore.

Taxes, that is. Compulsory contributions to the state revenue pool.  Based upon what?  A moral judgement.

My uncle is fond of telling me that you "can't legislate morality".  He is, of course, wrong.  Our entire tax code is replete with legislated morality.

That is all sin taxes are.

In Part II of Starve The Beast, I want to focus on "interacting with government".  But not in a normal take.

It's Day 6 of O'Misery in O'Maryland, and O'Guvnah does not disappoint.  The Baltimore Examiner is reporting that O'Guvnah is proposing tough new standards for poultry farms to help cure the ills of the Bay.

I wonder what Rick Pollitt and Barrie Tilghman think of this one?

Austin Shlick, head of the Attorney General's Office on Civil Litigation, was caught in court yesterday with his pants on fire, according to the Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter.

Well, it's day 5 of O'Misery in O'Maryland, and already, business groups are pushing back on including computer services -- anything from web design to technical consulting to wiring cable -- in the new 6% sales tax.

All fine and good, but where in the hell were these supposed "business groups" during the Special Session?

I am going to hold my breath while I wait for an answer...

Today, word came from the Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter that the state GOP has asked the Attorney General of Maryland to investigate the fact that the House of Delegate's Chief Clerk, Mary Monahan, admitted that documentation was forged in order to support the contention that permission was granted for the State Senate to adjourn for more than three days.

Gansler's response, in the vernacular of Annapolis politics:  Go Fuck Yourself.