Entries for the 'Maryland Politics' Category

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.

McCain wins Florida.  Not surprising.  A lot of Republicans down there -- including Governor Charlie Crist and Senator Mel Martinez are HUGE fans out of outright amnesty for all those illegal little bastards.

But I don't care.  I still won't vote for John McCain.  Ever.  Satan himself (herself?) could be running on the Democrat ticket, and I won't pull the lever for John McCain.

I will not vote for a man running for President who writes legislation empowering theGovernment  to regulate political speech.  EVER. 

He has a fundamental LACK of understanding of Conservative First Principles.  He is a big-government, my-way-or-the-highway, the Senate-is-sacrosanct politician who violates the Constitution on a whim.

He would DESTROY the United States economy to kow-tow to the environmentalists.  And he has zero grasp of energy policy.

And on taxes, he's a complete waffler.  He votes against tax cuts that created the SINGLE LARGEST DAY OF GOVERNMENT REVENUES IN HISTORY ON APRIL 15, 2007.  He says he would still vote against them.  But he insists that they be made permanent.  WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SMOKING? WHICH IS IT?

Guess what Senator, you'll NEVER have my vote.

I have to be honest... I only have one more candidate to talk about (will I or won't I vote for Mitt? Only the 8 Ball knows) but I am still not excited about the 2008 election.  I am suffering from Electile Dysfunction.  Do they make a little red pill for this?

I will not vote for Rudy Giuliani.  Under no circumstances.  Satan himself could be running the Republican Primary (and with John McCain, we are might close) and I would not vote for Rudy Giuliani.

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>

Rock on to some more reasonable members of the General Assembly, who have wisely introduced a bill that prevents the Motor Vehicle Administration from issuing a driver's license, state ID, or moped operator's license to illegal aliens.  House Bill 288 would require anyone seeking such a license who was before after December 1, 1964 to present proof of legal residence in the United States.

This one is easy:  Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson, because they are out.

Both campaigns were huge disappointments in my eyes. Not for the ideas, but for the pure lack of organization and structure.  Ultimately, it was this lack of structure that doomed both campaigns.

And so now I can't vote for either one of them.

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.

I've put two new links on the left column that link to Republican Delegates and Republican Senators and their emails.

Use it early and use it often to communicate with Republicans in the General Assembly and push issues that are IMPORTANT to you.

Don't forget:  we have a government of the people, not a people of the government.

Two bills -- one in the Senate and one in the House of Delegates -- have been introduced to legalize gay marriage in Maryland, guaranteeing a contentious fight on the floors of both houses.  There are over 40 sponsors -- almost 25% -- in the House, and nine in the Senate.

Personally, I think this argument will generate much more heat than light.  But even more, I think it is a waste of time.