DELAY VISIT TO MARYLAND HIGHLIGHTS EHRLICH/STEELE TIES TO PRESIDENT BUSH AND THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN AGENDA
Let's see...strong economy, lower taxes, support for our military. Sounds like a good agenda to me - what's wrong with that?
Embattled House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is coming to Carroll County, Maryland tonight, raising money for local Republicans and further highlighting the deep connections between the Ehrlich/Steele administration and the Bush administration and DeLay’s allies in Congress.
All right, DeLay is "embattled" because he has a friend who did no good. Show me the criminal charge against Tom DeLay (that's not part of a partisan witchhunt.) Democrats hate DeLay because he's very effective.
“It’s alarming how far Maryland Republicans will go to raise money for Bob Ehrlich and Michael Steele,” said Maryland Democratic Party Chair Terry Lierman. “The George Bush/Tom DeLay agenda -- mismanaging the war in Iraq, privatizing Social Security, making health care and the cost of living more expensive, and destroying the environment – has no place in the state of Maryland.”
Again, trying to tie that name in. Point by point:
Mismanaging the war in Iraq? We're losing 2-3 troops per day - too many for my liking, but the last two "wars" the Democrats managed were the loss in Viet Nam (with double-digit troop loss per day) and the 15,000 foot war (that's where the bombs dropped from) Clinton had in Serbia.
Privatizing Social Security? All for it. At least us younger folk can get a return on investment. And if that's good enough for government employees, it should be good enough for us.
Making health care and the cost of living more expensive? Only due to the inefficiencies of government interference in free markets and the ever-expanding mandates, mainly pushed by Democrats.
Destroying the environment? The Democrats' answer to that is placing more and more land off-limits to development (which also adds to the cost of living.) Notice that the areas in the world that are the worst environmental disasters are areas where socialism/communism have held sway for generations.
These things only have no place in the state of Maryland because the obstructionist Democrats crave political power more than letting our state truly be the "Free State."
Lierman added that DeLay’s appearance is not surprising, considering that Governor Ehrlich “was DeLay’s understudy in Congress and has brought the same mean spirited, partisan tone to Annapolis.”
I know, it sucks when Democrats actually have to think of and sell ideas to the opposition instead of just doing what they feel in a state with one-party rule. It takes two to tango and have a "partisan tone."
DeLay spent the summer fighting off serious ethics charges, many stemming from his ties to indicted Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who DeLay has called “one of my closest and dearest friends.” Abramoff has also been a major financial backer of Governor Robert Ehrlich.
Notice that's "indicted" lobbyist. President Clinton was indicted as well. And he was campaigning for Kathleen Kennedy Townsend in the 2002 election. I'm not defending Abramoff, but crooks infest both parties.
DeLay’s recent behavior has been deplorable. One week after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, DeLay pointed fingers at local officials for the poor disaster response, then canceled House hearings on Katrina. At the same time, DeLay praised Republican Governors Haley Barbour (MS) and Bob Riley (AL) while criticizing Louisiana’s Democratic Governor Kathleen Blanco.
As he should. The job Blanco did has been worse than horrible, mismanagement all the way by state and local government. While I concede the damage in New Orleans is of a different and more persistent nature (flooding) than the damage in Mississippi and Alabama (mostly due to storm surge and hurricane winds), steps taken by the Alabama and Mississippi governors have put their states on a course toward normalcy much faster than Louisiana's. Instead of waiting on FEMA to bail out their states and blaming President Bush for all ills, Alabamans and Mississippians rolled up their sleeves and got to work.
And doesn't the House have better things to do than hold hearings on Katrina? We know what will happen anyway: the Democrats will finagle a hearing room, invite a few carefully chosen victims of the storm, pat themselves on the back, and make FEMA (and by extension, Bush) the scapegoat.
“This much is clear: Maryland Democrats put Maryland first – Bob Ehrlich and Michael Steele put George Bush and the national Republicans first,” said Lierman.
Don't let them fool you. Maryland Democrats put political power over our lives first. All the GOP is doing is trying to slow down the rate of progress.
Also, a hat tip to a Free State blogger I've recently been introduced to for an interesting idea that has merit. TheGoldwater had the thought of putting an oil terminal/refinery in Crisfield. On the surface, it does have its good points: hundreds of good paying jobs for Somerset County and it's close to a major gasoline market in the Northeast. I know the environmentalists and NIMBYs would pitch a bitch, but it shows thought about a private-sector answer rather than just another government "solution" like Hawaii has proposed.
Speaking of gas prices and government solutions, the Sun made Governor Ehrlich sound clueless again. Seems to be their job. But it was hidden in the article that stations in the Baltimore-Washington corridor use a special blend of gasoline unique to that area. Maybe it explains why prices there are above the national average while prices here on the Maryland part of the Eastern Shore are right about or slightly below that mark.
Once again, a government "solution" via forced mandate comes back to bite Joe Q. Public in the ass and empty his wallet at the same time.
