The most recent Direct Mail piece from the MDGOP dropped last Friday, this piece had an immigration theme. I purposely informed the citizens that the O’Malley administration is creating a sanctuary state right here in Maryland. I also informed our constituency that the liberal majority of the Maryland General Assembly approved $1.2 million to Casa of Maryland, which is being used to oppose the Arizona law. This is not how I want my tax dollars being spent. It is imperative that we elect Republicans to the House of Delegates and our State Senate to reverse this downward spiral to socialism. Last Saturday morning, I did an interview on this issue with Bruce Elliott on WBAL and have been receiving very positive comments on the stand the MDGOP has taken. We support immigration, it is illegal immigration that we oppose.

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Who is Rob Fisher?

Posted by Mark Newgent from Redstate.

Red Maryland has obtained documents, which show cyber security executive, Rob Fisher, who is challenging GOP favorite Andy Harris in the Republican primary for Maryland’s first district congressional seat, has stronger ties to the Commonwealth of Virginia than Maryland.

According to the Maryland State Board of Elections Fisher registered to vote in Maryland in 1996 but has not voted in a single election in Maryland since registering. However, Fisher has been registered to vote in Virginia since 2006

Fisher’s Federal Election Commission candidate filing statement lists his address as 310 Park Lane Federalsburg, MD. The Maryland State Department of Taxation and Assessments shows that property is owned by his parents Robert Allan Fisher Sr. and Diane M. Fisher. Virginia records show Fisher and his current wife have paid property taxes on a home in Chantilly, VA since 2004.

These documents beg several questions:

Why is Fisher running for Congress in Maryland?

Is Fisher a Maryland resident? If yes, then why is a self-admitted millionaire —he told Politico he’s worth $5 million — living with his parents?

Fisher claims “deep roots” in the first congressional district. Why hasn’t he voted in a single election in Maryland in the last 14 years?
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Jon Stewart: Andrew Breitbart May Be the Most Honest Person In This Entire Story

By-Regina Sztajer

I have been writing for the Baltimore Reporter for many years and I enjoy using my abilities as a journalist. I was an investigative reporter for a local paper for eight years riding around town with a photographer and loved every story I covered. I also have a Masters degree in Military History and taught history at Towson University. I have also been published extensively in Historical journals and done book reviews that are on book jackets.

This week I wrote an article about the Baltimore County Republican Committee and it’s Chairman Chris Cavey who is running for re-election. Chris can’t campaign for himself because he is doing the work of being Statewide Field Director for the Ehrlich campaign and Chairman of the BCRCC.

His opponent is Tony Campbell a political Science teacher at Towson University. Campbell is a Republican when he chooses to be one or a Democrat when he needs to be. He proudly keeps his blog andmembership in the Republicans for Obama on the web. He also proudly said, “I voted for Obama because he was black and so am I.”

His small group of supporters are having a fundraiser for him while digging into the members of the BCRCC with a form of character assassination.For example, if Campbell wins your out! But they will remain so there! Reminds me of my kids when they did something wrong and I caught them with their hand in the cookie jar. (more…)

IMMEDIATE RELEASE 23 JULY 2010

PVRC ENDORSES CANDIDATES FOR UPCOMING PRIMARY
CATONSVILLE, Maryland - The Patapsco Valley Republican Club (PVRC) has announced its endorsements of candidates for the Maryland Republican primary in September.
Candidates that received the club’s support included former Gov. Bob Ehrlich for Governor, Rick Martel for State Senate, Dave “Augie” Aughenbaugh and Albert Nalley for State Delegates in District 12A, Steve Whisler for Baltimore County Council, Ken Holt for Baltimore County Executive, Rich Reinhardt for Baltimore County Clerk of the Circuit Court, and Chris Cavey for Chairman of the Baltimore County Republican Central Committee.

“The upcoming primary is a very critical decision point for the future of both Maryland and Baltimore County,” Harry Korrell, president of the PVRC, said. “This state and county has been hit extremely hard for a number of years by out of control spending, increased taxes, governmental growth, and lost jobs,” Korrell added. “We believe that the candidates that we are endorsing for this upcoming primary will give our residents the best possible opportunity to correct these problems and put both the State of Maryland and Baltimore County back on track toward a healthier and more prosperous future.”

The PVRC voted on these endorsements during its recent monthly meeting. This was the first time in its history that the PVRC voted on endorsements for candidates for a primary election. (more…)

Posted by Erick Erickson

There was an interesting comment made on the floor of the United States Senate yesterday.

I first noticed in from Senator Jim DeMint’s twitter feed. DeMint tweeted, “Sen. Dorgan just said a vote for tax cuts is a vote to ‘reduce this country’s income. To Democrats, it’s the government’s money. Not yours.”

Really? I mean it wouldn’t surprise me, but we rarely hear the Democrats speak so bluntly about it. But sure enough, here is the rush transcript from the floor yesterday from 4:36 p.m.:

THOSE WHO CRIED THE LOUDEST ON THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE THESE DAYS — RIGHT NOW — ARE THE VERY ONES THAT VOTED TO REDUCE THIS COUNTRY’S INCOME WITH THE BIGGEST BENEFITS GOING TO THE WEALTHIEST AMERICANS.

You can watch it here.

Really Senator Dorgan? Voting to give Americans back their own money was a vote to “reduce this country’s income with the biggest benefits going to the wealthiest Americans?”

Certainly cutting taxes reduces the governments’ income in a static calculation, but we also know that revenue into the treasury went up after those tax cuts.

The Democrats really do think it is their money.

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Bad News for Md

The monthly jobs report was released yesterday – and the news for Maryland is not good. The unemployment percentage fell to 7.1% due to Marylanders dropping out of the workforce, not because more workers were hired. Economic expert Anirban Basu stated “what has taken place since late April has been a reversal of the optimism that had been emerging…” In response, the O’Malley administration said that we are seeing “consistent improvement” even though this will be the worst month for job growth in the second quarter (Maryland employers added a measly 1,600 to the rolls).
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By-Regina Sztajer

The Baltimore County Central Committee plays a vital role in helping candidates running for office in the 2010, fall elections, specifically for giving the candidates a voice to prove themselves equal to the trials and tribulations of running a good campaign. The BCRCC offers guidance, encouragement and to help the candidates in fund raising. The Chairman of the BCRCC for the past eight years has been Chris Cavey and his leadership has been outstanding. He will be running for re-election during the primary elections on Tuesday September 14, 2010.

In addition to being the BCRCC Chairman he is the Statewide Field Director for the Ehrlich Campaign. This is an enormous organizational job which he handles with the same finis as his Chairmanship. Working Statewide his mornings begin at 6:00 a.m. and this week alone he will travel to Frederick Queenstown, Crisfield, Baltimore City and Cumberland. His appointments are all after 5:00 p.m. after a full day of office work and phone calls.

Cavey is an extremely fair individual always giving people on his committee a voice to speak their concerns. During a campaign season he gives the floor to his opponent to speak out. He never plays favorites. He is an excellent administrator and a good solid Republican Conservative who never wavers form his convictions.

In this eleventh hours leading up to the primary elections an opponent has arisen to challenge Cavey for his Chairmanship, much to the reservations of his committee. Tony Campbell is a teacher of Political Science at Towson University, who holds a masters degree in the subject. He is what we call a Democrat when the time seems to suit him and a Republican on occasion. (more…)

Working Mom, Small Business Advocate, and Attorney to Run for Lt. Governor

FACEBOOK — Bob Ehrlich announced tonight that he has selected Mary D. Kane as his running mate in the campaign for Governor of Maryland. Ehrlich first announced the selection to his 27,000 fans on Facebook. Kane will help advance Bob Ehrlich’s central priorities for Maryland: creating jobs, lowering taxes on families and small businesses, and fixing Maryland’s budget mess.

Kane, 48, is a first generation American whose parents immigrated to the United States from Ireland. The mother of three college-age children, Kane currently serves as Director of Special Projects for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where she assists military veterans, as well as National Guardsmen and Reservists searching for employment upon returning from overseas. She previously served as Assistant State’s Attorney for Montgomery County and Maryland Secretary of State.

“I am delighted that Mary has agreed to join with me on my mission to bring more jobs, lower taxes, and a brighter future to all Marylanders,” Ehrlich said. “She has a great mix of experience in government and the private sector, and knows the joys and challenges of raising a family in Maryland. She will be true partner in government who shares my belief that fixing Maryland’s problems requires candor and real solutions, not cynicism and fear.”

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From Powerline

The race for governor of Maryland between incumbent Martin O’Malley (the Democrat) and his predecessor Robert Ehrlich is heating up. A few months ago, the Washington Post attempted to paint Ehrlich as a no-hoper who is just going through the motions of a campaign. But the polls tell a different tale, one in which the race may well be a dead heat.

O’Malley certainly understands that he’s in a horse race. Accordingly, he has launched a series of attack ads on Ehrlich that, according to the Post itself, “contain questionable claims.”

In one ad, O’Malley portrays Ehrlich as a lobbyist. As the Post points out, however, Ehrlich has never registered as a lobbyist and denies being one. O’Malley is relying on the fact that Ehrlich works for a law firm that engages in lobbying. But one does not become a lobbyist by association.

O’Malley also tries to pin the Gulf oil spill on Ehrlich. An ad called “Drill Baby Drill” states that Ehrlich voted to open new parts of the Gulf to drilling. This apparently is a reference to a vote for a 2001 measure which allowed only a fraction of the exploration President Bush wanted and that was passed almost unanimously, with support from every Maryland Democrat in the House.

The ad features Ehrlich using the phrase “drill baby drill.” But according to the Post, the O’Malley campaign grabbed this sound bite from a portion of Ehrlich’s call-in radio program in which Ehrlich talked about Michael Steele’s use of this slogan during the 2008 campaign.

The O’Malley campaign is also claiming that Ehrlich has challenged whether President Obama was born in the U.S. Here, according to the Post, O’Malley is taking out of context comments made by Ehrlich in response to a call to his radio show. In response to a caller, Ehrlich appears to agree that the question of when Obama would release his birth certificate is a relevant. But Ehrlich did not call on Obama to release them, nor did he espouse the “birther” position.

In running ads that even the Washington Post can’t quite stomach, O’Malley is relying on Ehrlich’s lack of the resources required to respond. The campaigns have not disclosed their current financial situations, but at the beginning of the year, O’Malley had close to $6 million. Ehrlich, who had about $150,000 at that time, is still thought to be millions behind O’Malley in the fundraiser race.

Those who would like to help reduce this imbalance in what looks like a competitive race can contribute to the Ehrlich campaign (as I have) here.

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How Unpopular is the Obama Administration?

President Obama’s approval ratings have declined steadily since he took office. Among likely voters, those who disapprove of his performance consistently outnumber those who approve by eight points or so. The margin between those who strongly disapprove and those who strongly approve is even greater.
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From Red Maryland

The latest Rasmussen Poll has Governor Ehrlich and Martin O’Malley deadlocked at 45 a piece among likely voters…..but that’s not the most interesting statistics in the Rasmussen release.

That would be this:

Still, a majority (53%) of voters in Maryland favor repeal of the recently passed national health care bill, slightly lower than the support for repeal found nationwide. Forty-two percent (42%) oppose repeal. This includes 42% who Strongly Favor repeal and 36% who Strongly Oppose it.

If a liberal state like Maryland isn’t even on board with the Health Care bill, it means that you;ve got a lot of Democrats who are not on board with the direction of their party. And while disssatisfaction with national Democrats likely won’t hurt O’Malley in 2010 as disssatisfaction with national Republicans did with Ehrlcih in 2006, some of the sins of Obama will be laid at the feet of O’Malley.

But that’s not all: (more…)

Phone Bank Tuesday!!!

Wine at Phone Bank?

We need to borrow you and your voice for a couple hours any and every Tuesday night you are available, unless, of course, you develop laryngitis. Meet us at 5782 Main Street, Elkridge every Tuesday at 6:30 pm.

Don’t worry, we’re not asking for money…just a friendly, quick phone call to friendly people. Who knows? You might make a new friend. And you never know who might show up…

Contact Betty Schwartz for more info.

Sign Waving on Thursday

Even Kids Can WaveWhisler is everywhere and people are really starting to notice. Momentum is on the rise. Be a part of the Whisler craze and join us this Thursday at the intersection of hammonds Ferry and Hollins Ferry roads in Lansdowne starting at 4:00 pm. Wear your Whisler garb if you got it. If not, no worries…we’ll hook you up. Can’t make it right at 4:00? No problem, just come when you can. We'’ll be around until 6:30. Come on, we know you’re just dying to show your Whisler spirit. If you can’t make it out to sign wave, drive by and honk your horn like a crazy person.

D2D Program This Saturday (more…)

As if you needed another reason to not live in the city.

As Council backs more than $20 million in tax increases

By Julie Scharper, The Baltimore Sun

The Baltimore City Council voted to support more than $20 million in tax increases Monday night, enough to stave off nearly all of the cuts to the police and fire departments that city officials have threatened during long and bitterly fought budget negotiations.

Council members said the rate hikes — which include increases to income, parking and telecommunication taxes— would generate enough revenue to prevent the layoffs of hundreds of police and firefighters, the permanent closures of fire companies and the loss of the police helicopter, cuts that were detailed in a doomsday budget to close the city’s $121 million shortfall without raising taxes.

The votes bring city officials one step closer to closing one of the most arduous budget seasons in recent memory. Council members and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s administration have been engaged in a months-long tug-of-war on the mix of cuts and new revenues needed to close the gap.

Rawlings-Blake proposed a $50 million package of new or increased taxes to mitigate many trims to cherished programs — including rec centers, senior activities and bulk trash pickups. But council members, whose approval is required to raise taxes, chafed at some of the proposals — notably a four-cent tax on bottled beverages. They have drafted several new taxes and fees in an effort to avoid the bottle tax.

Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young called Monday’s votes “a major step in the right direction” toward resolving the budget struggle. And he vowed that the council would move quickly on other proposed taxes to beat the June 30 deadline.

“This process has never been an easy process,” said Young. “We have a job to do, and we’re going to do that job. We’re not rushing anything, but we’re on time and on target.”
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From Red Maryland

Have you taken a look yet at Governor Ehrlich’s Entrepreneur Agenda? You should, because it’s the first time any statewide leaders have seriously come forth to address job creation to combat the O’Malley Recession:

Bob Ehrlich actually wants to do something to create an economic environment that will employ more Marylanders and improve the economic situation for Maryland’s middle class families. Nothing sums up the current plight of small business owners than this:

Turning the economic tide requires a new approach to small business owners, who currently employ 1.2 million Marylanders. Since announcing his candidacy for Governor, Bob Ehrlich has met with more than 100 local entrepreneurs to discuss the hardships they face in Maryland. Nearly all of them believe they are an afterthought in the eyes of state government, and relay tales of being ignored, harassed, or given conflicting guidance from their state government.

And we are going to be able to do this through:

* Creating an attitude more conducive to small business development throughout State Government;
* Reversing the 20-percent sales tax, both as an incentive to bring small business back to Maryland, but to also provide a greater stimulus to spending an a better economic picture for Maryland families;
* Review current policies that bring irreparable harm to small businesses;
* Actually meeting with and discussing small business policies with small business owners.

In a nutshell, the next Ehrlich Administration will make owning a small business and creating jobs in Maryland easier. That is a far cry from what the O’Malleynomic antics of the current regime.

Why is this important? Because this is what the people want to talk about. The only thing that people around the state want to talk about right now is jobs, jobs, and jobs. The people of Maryland are fed up with Martin O’Malley and his inability to create a strong economic climate, and the people are fed up with Martin O’Malley and his administration continuing to adopt policies that harm the plight of Maryland’s middle and working class families. And they are tired of Martin O’Malley trying to say that he’s a jobs governor when so many Marylanders are unemployed due to his fiscal irresponsibility.

In the meantime, O’Malley flack Rick Abbruzzese has the unfortunate task of responding on behalf of the O’Malley-Brown campaign and hoping that his nose didn’t grow:

“This is not a plan. Bob Ehrlich’s so-called plan is all talk and no action - he is proposing a commission, a summit, a task force, three reviews and two explorations, but nothing to actually create jobs or help small businesses struggling because of the global recession.”

Here’s the pot calling the kettle block; because it was just last week that Martin O’Malley, after three years of destroying jobs, finally realized that jobs would be an issues in the campaign and responded by…..proposing a commission.

“This lip service is insulting because Maryland’s small businesses and families expect and deserve more from a former governor. As governor, Bob Ehrlich actually proposed the largest-ever increase in state spending and increased taxes and fees that hurt Maryland’s small businesses and families, while benefiting special interests. Now as a lobbyist, Bob Ehrlich has spent the last four years helping his clients export American jobs, bail out Wall Street banks, and defend giant oil companies.

Well, give the O’Malley/Democrat coordinated campaign one thing; they are coordinated. Never mind the fact that O’Malley and the Democrats are kings of special interests, the kings and queens of lobbying, and of course the drainers of oil recovery funds. But hey…Team O’Malley never let the facts get in the way of their goals, right?

“In stark contrast, Governor O’Malley has delivered results, including the Job Creation and Recovery Tax Credit to put unemployed Marylanders back to work and a rapid response small business loan guaranty program to get credit flowing again to our small businesses.”

Martin O’Malley did in fact deliver results, if your idea of “results” is thousands of closed businesses, forcing Marylanders out of state, record unemployment, unconscionable and immoral tax increases, reduced tax revenues, and record budget shortfalls . To put it bluntly, the only result Martin O’Malley has delivered has proof that he is unprepared to lead Maryland out of the fiscal mess he has created.

Voters have a choice in this election. A choice between sticking with Martin O’Malley and his recession, or choosing Bob Ehrlich and change that will benefit all Marylanders. Click here to help Governor Ehrlich make that change.

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From Powerline

Where’s John Edwards when you need him?

The left has become disillusioned with President Obama, according to this report by Politico’s Glenn Thrush. This news, which I’ve been looking forward to reading since it became apparent that Obama would be elected, was delivered at the annual meeting of the left-wng Campaign for America’s Future.
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From Red Maryland

Watch Montgomery County Councilman George Leventhal insult constituents who oppose the misguided county carbon tax he favors then pat himself on the back for his ingenuity.

Montgomery’s carbon tax would put a $5 levy on each ton of carbon dioxide any company produces over 1 million tons. The tax would affect only one company, Mirant, which operates a coal-fired plant in Dickerson, MD. Supporters of the tax say the county would reap $15 million from the tax.

Remember businesses don’t pay taxes. They pass the cost of taxes on to consumers, in this case the utilities, which purchase the power from Mirant and the Maryland ratepayers to whom the utilities sell that power. In essence, Montgomery’s carbon tax is a regulatory tax foisted upon all Maryland utility customers.

Furthermore, it’s not the most economically sound course to tax a coal-fired power plant in Maryland, a state which generates 60% of it’s energy above the national average from coal.

Environmentalists will naturally counter that the externality of carbon dioxide emissions, which they allege drives global warming, is far more costly than the proposed tax. However, that presumption rests on the fallacy that reduced carbon dioxide emissions equal lower temperatures. They don’t, which is why environmentalists couch their arguments in terms of reduced carbon dioxide levels not temperature increase averted. Case in point, the Waxman-Markey the federal cap and trade bill passed by the House would surely reduce carbon emissions (while increasing energy bills and unemployment) but result in a meaningless one nine-hundredth of a degree change in average global temperature by 2050.

Millionaires are fleeing, County Executive Ike Leggett wants to raise energy taxes on business that create jobs, council members side with public sector unions against solutions to budget crises the unions caused, and now Leventhal insults citizens who show the temerity to question the efficacy of a dubious tax.

Seriously, what’s the matter with Montgomery County?

From Red Maryland

I think we all know what the headline from this morning’s Washington Post story said about the Governor’s race: O’Malley has 8-point lead over Ehrlich among registered voters.

And it is in the headline that shows exactly why the headline is misleading, and why this race is already too close to call.

The key point of the headline and of the poll results as they are reported by John Wagner, Aaron Davis and Jon Cohen is that Martin O’Malley is far ahead of Bob Ehrlich when you restrict the data to registered voters; in that case, O’Malley has 49-41 lead. The problem with that part of the poll, however, is that while it deals with a statistically significant number of voters for the scope of a statewide race, the results are just that; registered voters.

That 49-41 number is not indicative of the people who are actually going to go vote in the polls on Election Day. As the Post story notes (but in the second paragraph, naturally) is that among those individuals who are certain to vote on election day, Bob Ehrlich and Martin O’Malley are tied 47-47.

Of course, a poll of registered voters and a poll of certain voters are both reasonably meaningless; the real action in polling is in the realm of likely voters, because those are the margins that make the difference in an election as close as this one. And for reasons that I cannot begin to fathom, the Post neglected to poll on the one number that would actually make for a relevant story.
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From Red Maryland

Rep. Edwards votes for wage increase for members of Congress.
Gazette, 3 May 2010 (Ford).

U.S. Rep. Donna F. Edwards of Fort Washington was the only member of the Maryland House delegation and one of only 15 congressional representatives nationwide to vote for a cost-of-living pay increase for House members.
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House members make $175,000 annually.

State Del. Herman L. Taylor Jr. (D-Dist. 14) Ashton, who is expected to challenge Edwards in the Democratic primary, said voting for a pay increase in the current economy sends the wrong message.

“People are getting furloughed,” he said. “I took voluntary furloughs along with other state employees. I don’t know if it’s political theater. I think every little bit helps. It is tight times, and every dollar counts.” [Full story]

Dirty Money Watch: Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md.
Examiner, 4 May 2010 (Hemingway).

WHO: Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md.

WHAT: Edwards received $5,000 from Rep. Charles Rangel’s, D-N.Y., National Leadership PAC, the political action committee of the powerful New York Democrat who was chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee that writes tax law.

WHY IT’S DIRTY: Rangel is being investigated on multiple issues by the House ethics committee, including failure to report income from properties he owns in New York and the Dominican Republic. A company that gave $1 million to a New York school facility that will bear Rangel’s name subsequently received lucrative tax breaks, and he has reportedly solicited political contributions on official stationary. Rangel has been admonished by the House ethics committee and forced to give up his Ways and Means Committee chairmanship.
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From the PVRC‘

by Hillary Pennington

Governor Martin O’Malley announced this week he is seeking re-election. I welcome him to the race and look forward to a vigorous exchange of ideas. For four years, Governor O’Malley has staked his government’s legacy on a single word: progress. Rarely does he give a speech or interview without discussing what he believes is “progress” in Maryland. Let’s take a look at the “progress” made in Maryland under Governor O’Malley:

? “Progress” — Unemployment in Maryland has doubled since 2006.

? “Progress” — More than 230,000 Marylanders are currently looking for a job and unable to find one.

? “Progress” — Nearly 3,000 small businesses have closed in Maryland in the last year alone.

? “Progress” — Maryland has gone from a budget surplus in 2006 to a record budget deficit today.

? “Progress” — Maryland families were forced to pay the largest tax increase in Maryland history at the height of a recession, including a 20 percent increase in the sales tax.

? “Progress” — Maryland has plummeted 25 spots in CNBC’s ranking of the 50 states according to the cost of doing business.

? “Progress” — Maryland – nicknamed “The Free State” — ranks dead last in personal freedom, according to George Mason University’s “Freedom in the 50 States” survey.
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also: From Red Maryland

Martin O’Malley: Scourge of the Straw Man

On Tuesday Governor Martin O’Malley officially kicked off his reelection bid. His signature unctuous rhetoric is sure to follow. Straw men beware.

O’Malley’s political career is littered with corpses of gimpy straw men and tartuffery.

In 2005, a sanctimonious O’Malley likened proposed budget cuts to community development programs by George W. Bush to the 9/11 attacks. O’Malley told a packed National Press Club, that the cuts were “sad,” “irresponsible,” and “dishonest.” O’Malley said, “Back on September 11, terrorists attacked our metropolitan cores, two of America’s great cities. They did that because they knew that was where they could do the most damage and weaken us the most. Years later, we are given a budget proposal by our commander in chief, the president of the United States. And with a budget ax, he is attacking America’s cities.”

At a 2004 Baltimore fundraiser for John Kerry O’Malley said that he feared the Bush administration more than Al Qaeda.

Talk about “irresponsible in a time of war,” Governor!

The George W. Bush scarecrow is one of O’Malley’s favorite straw men to ignite.

“Many of the tax policies of the Bush administration are the reasons our federal government has become enfeebled.” O’Malley told a gathering at the Center for American Progress in August 2008. “But I do give him credit… Ideologically he believed that our government should be small and weak and he’s delivered on his promises and goals.” (more…)

From Red Maryland

This really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who doesn’t live in Annapolis but technology giant Northrop Grumman has decided to locate its global headquarters in Virginia. This is a logical outcome of the fiscal mismanagement of the O’Malley administration, which has spent the last four years blaming Governor Ehrlich for its own spending, and the better business environment available in Virginia. The Tax Foundation rates Maryland 45 out of 51 jurisdictions in terms of business tax policy. Virginia rates 15.

Maybe one day Maryland Democrats will start realizing that businesses create jobs, jobs that employ people who pay taxes. And that a hostility towards business is nothing more or less than a hostility towards job creation and prosperity. Despite slivers of hope, the Democrats would have to abandon their entire political philosophy to reach that point.