Tag: maryland

QotD, Maryland Gun-Grabbing Legislators Should Worry About This Quote edition.

Short version: Beretta makes guns in Maryland.  Maryland is dominated by liberal Democrats.  Liberal Democratic legislators hate and fear guns.  Maryland is about to express that hatred and fear via inappropriate legislation.  Beretta is contemplating getting the hell out of Maryland – and taking all those taxable jobs and all those taxable sales with it.

The quote:

“All I can tell you is, Mr. Beretta said, ‘There always seems to be a problem with Maryland.’ ”

Ayup.  There always is.  It’s called the Maryland Democratic party.  Sorry to put it that bluntly; but I’m starting to get tired of gun-grabbing ideologues who think that the answer to them being weak is to ensure that it doesn’t matter that anybody else is strong.

(Via Twitchy)

OK, I admit it.

I LOL’ed.

Well, not literally. But that’s legitimately funny. Not least because we had the usual ZOMG EVIL SKY WATER SAVE THE CHILDREN HIDE THEM FROM THE WRATH OF THE CLOUD GODS that hits Maryland’s state government every time it rains between December and March. Swear to God, if there’s ever a real emergency in this state Martin O’Malley’s head will probably explode a la Scanners.

CNBC whales on Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland. Relatedly: Ben Cardin is still alive.

The entertaining thing about this is that Ben Cardin is in fact pretty much a useless waste of a Senator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mTFz98URn7k

Seriously, the guy’s been in Congress since 1987 (the Senate since 2007), and he’s done pretty much nothing.  Which is pretty much why CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo ripped into him for doing nothing but repeating the same stupid talking points about taxing the rich over and over and over again and never actually doing anything to solve the problem because Cardin doesn’t think that he has to.  Newsbusters grades her performance a little harshly, I think: while I agree that the Media’s been ignoring that the Democrats have been one-note wonders on fiscal issues (and that the Media’s ignoring our horrific spending problem), I also believe in positive feedback.  The goal is to get more of this, after all.

Via:

Obama for America: Go phone bank! …In the middle of the hurricane!

Spoiler warning: DON’T.

You have got to be kidding me.

…For those who can’t see the photo: Fox News is reporting an email where Obama for America asked for volunteers to man the Annapolis, MD phone banks, starting at 5:30 PM this afternoon.  At that point, Hurricane Sandy will be descending upon the Chesapeake Bay area and will make landfall some time between 8 PM this evening and 8 AM tomorrow.  Annapolis is in the possible storm track.  It WILL get hammered by winds, rain, and flooding.

So NO.  DO NOT GO INTO ANNAPOLIS TO PHONE BANK TODAY.  IT CAN WAIT.

Sheesh.  Are there no adults in Obama for America?  …Sorry, rhetorical question.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

#rsrh Heavy lobbying presence on Maryland’s Question 7 (Gambling).

This is a couple of days old, but it’s still a definite problem in Maryland:

Casino owners, labor and other interests spent more than $3.6 million to influence lawmakers during last month’s special session to expand gambling in Maryland — a figure that comes to about $900,000 a day for the four-day session, according to disclosure reports filed Monday.

The biggest spender was a Washington-area labor organization which — with help from the owners of the National Harbor development — poured $2.7 million into television advertising designed to persuade the General Assembly to pass legislation authorizing table games and a new casino in Prince George’s County.

Continue reading #rsrh Heavy lobbying presence on Maryland’s Question 7 (Gambling).

#rsrh Watch Gov. Martin O’Malley (D, MD) torpedo his Presidential hopes!

It’s quite fun to see:

Basically, O’Malley was asked if we were better off than we were four years ago, and he said something mind-numbingly stupid and career-blighting in response.  No, it’s not that he said ‘No.’  That’s just O’Malley being honest: everybody knows that the country’s not gotten better in the last four years.  No, where the governor screwed up was in saying “…but that’s not the question of this election.” O’Malley’s been swimming in the political kiddie pool that is a reliable one-party Blue State for just a bit too long if he thinks that he can get away with unilaterally defining the rules of the discussion.  The rest of us get a vote on what this election is about, thanks: and the Democrats don’t get to simply wave off questions that they don’t like.

Well, true, they can technically do that.  They just shouldn’t get upset when it turns out to be a nonviable election strategy…

Walp, the Maryland primary is today.

Thank God Perry’s still on the ballot: it’s about the only thing motivating me to vote in the primary.  Although that’s not really fair, given that we have a pretty big slate of candidates who want to go up against Ben Cardin in the Senate race.  I interviewed one of them (Dan Bongino) at CPAC, in fact.  Still, the Republican primary started too early and I am completely ready to see the next President kill ethanol subsidies once and for all, then urinate on the cooling ashes.

…OK, maybe I shouldn’t RedHot this one.

Barack Obama badly flubs Martin O’Malley’s name in speech.

Jack O’Malley?  Sorry, Mr President, but the governor of Maryland is nowhere near cool enough for a name like “Jack O’Malley.”

…Yeah, I’m not really ripping on the President, here; it’s not like Governor O’Malley is either particularly interesting or particularly memorable. He’s just a placeholder whose major role in life is to be a horrible contrast to Republican governors; and if you asked me to pick him out of a lineup I’d be all “Well, it was about bloody time, really.”

Via… I’m not sure, actually.

RS at CPAC: Dan Bongino (R CAND, MD-SEN PRI).

One of the interesting things about CPAC is, of course, that you can meet a whole lot of different candidates.  Below was my conversation with Dan Bongino, who is a former US Secret Service agent now running for Senate in Maryland against Ben Cardin – and if you don’t remember who Ben Cardin is, don’t worry. Cardin’s an amazingly generic Senator who, on his good days, aspires to be as memorable as Herb Kohl.

Anyway, Dan and I talked a bit about CPAC and the race below:

Dan’s site is here.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

#rsrh I have been redistricted!

I got my new election card in the mail… and on the notice, there it was: an indication that my district has been changed, thanks to Maryland’s horrifically gerrymandered new maps.  WHICH IS GREAT.  I have no idea what Dutch Ruppersberger’s district’s new partisan numbers are, but they were D+7 last time; and Elijah Cummings’ (my pre-redistricting Congressman) was D+25.  There’s no chance at all that Ruppersberger did that well out of the process.

So: while the Democrats may have screwed over most of their constituents – particularly minority ones, who really should haven’t have had Montgomery County sliced up the way that it was* – at least I’m doing better out of the deal.

Moe Lane

*The question is, does the Supreme Court agree with me? Well, we’ll find out.