Dems with spine

[Yuri Zhivago]

facing the threat of backwards fascism we see them more and more thankfully:


Here is Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley explaining why his state raised taxes on the rich to pay for necessary services:

Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland, the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, gave an impassioned defense of his approach to mayors from across the state who gathered here at the end of last month at the annual convention of the Maryland Municipal League.“Without any anger, and without any meanness, and without any fear, let’s ask one another in these critical months ahead and years ahead: how much less do we think would be good for our state?” Mr. O’Malley asked. “How much less do we think would be good for our country? How much less education would be good for our children? How many fewer college degrees would make our state or our country more competitive? How much less research and development would be good for the innovation economy that we have an obligation and a responsibility, a duty and an imperative, to embrace? How many fewer hungry Maryland kids can we afford to feed? Progress is a choice: we can decide whether to make the tough choices necessary to invest in our shared future and move forward together. Or we can be the first generation of Marylanders to give our children a lesser quality of life with fewer opportunities.”
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[zzigzzag]

Sounds like we have a candidate for the keynote address at the convention.

 

[Yuri Zhivago]

Sounds like we have a candidate for the keynote address at the convention.

I've heard him talk a few times. He is great and he can phrase things clear and in plain language, like Clinton.
I wish Obama had more of that kind of talent

 

[zzigzzag]

Obama's a better explainer than he is a speech maker.

I always remember the televised meeting in the pugs' chamber about HCR. He stood alone and took any questions they wanted to ask. He made them look like naughty little kids in the principal's office. They all sat there scowling and cowering from making any of the accusations they were making publicly....because they knew he'd rebuke them, correct them and make them look like the phony pricks that they are.

The few who asked questions got intelligent, comprehensive answers. As soon as the meeting was over, the pugs went looking for cameras and started screaming "Armageddon!" again. Weenies.

 

[PACE]

I trade emails with O'Malley, from little ole Connecticut, he's a real straight up guy, been talking to him since 2006

Good man, that O'Malley

Regards
Pace

 

[Bo-4]

Obama's a better explainer than he is a speech maker.

Hey zz.. didn't you mean just the opposite? IMHO, he's a better speech maker than he is explainer. Thx!

 

[Craig]

I trade emails with O'Malley, from little ole Connecticut, he's a real straight up guy, been talking to him since 2006

Good man, that O'Malley

Regards
Pace

Marty's ok...but he does have a wide politician's streak on his back. He has trouble dealing with our imperious Senate leader, but then again, everyone does. Still...until he took the Governor's Mansion he lived in a mixed neighborhood in northeast Baltimore.

I like that he's a musician, although he never comped me one of his CDs or even acknowledged me (a bit strange for a pol, but hey, he was in a hurry) the many times we crossed paths at the radio station...so I never played his music on my shows. So there!

I posted about him a few months back; he's clearly laying groundwork for a short move down US 50 in January 2017...

 

[zzigzzag]

Just a difference of perceptions, I guess. Being a good speech maker is a good thing, but knowing your subject and being comfortable fielding questions about it is another. I'm more impressed by the latter. Clinton was the master at that, of course, but I think O has a pretty good grip on the details of whatever he's pushing, unlike his predecessor, who "stayed on message" with RNC approved platitudes.

 

[tobaccoroad]

Maryland, quite likely, experienced a Denise Rich, errr, Eisenberg, phenomena as a result, plenty of wealthy voting with their feet, even some of the non wealthy. Its quite probable that none of them moved to France. Michelle Malkin went to Colorado.
Maryland is heavily influenced by the Barry effect, shown below, that may explain it.

Did Barry just show this gentleman his horns and cloven hooves, or is he recounting to him how Frank Marshall Davis would punish him for flubbing his mandatory memorization of the lines from Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" by bouncing young Barry on his lap?

http://weaselzippers.us/2012/07/11/obamabot-of-the-day-2/

 

[zzigzzag]

He said "Weaselzippers"....heh heh....heh heh....

 

[wobblies]

Governor Brown is trying to do the same thing in California, and he is willing to ask all of us to pay more. The GOP is hyperbolic about it, as one paper wrote, he is the only adult in the room sometimes.

facing the threat of backwards fascism we see them more and more thankfully:


Here is Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley explaining why his state raised taxes on the rich to pay for necessary services:

Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland, the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, gave an impassioned defense of his approach to mayors from across the state who gathered here at the end of last month at the annual convention of the Maryland Municipal League.“Without any anger, and without any meanness, and without any fear, let’s ask one another in these critical months ahead and years ahead: how much less do we think would be good for our state?” Mr. O’Malley asked. “How much less do we think would be good for our country? How much less education would be good for our children? How many fewer college degrees would make our state or our country more competitive? How much less research and development would be good for the innovation economy that we have an obligation and a responsibility, a duty and an imperative, to embrace? How many fewer hungry Maryland kids can we afford to feed? Progress is a choice: we can decide whether to make the tough choices necessary to invest in our shared future and move forward together. Or we can be the first generation of Marylanders to give our children a lesser quality of life with fewer opportunities.”
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[Dawg]

evidently you have been paying more than your getting for your money, third California city now files bankruptcy and doesn't appear it will be the last one.......

 

[Gramps]

He lives in the real world while too many people do not. The fantasyland that lasted for some three decades where everyone pretty much got what everyone wanted has ended. It ended when three bedroom houses were no longer an acceptable home and toys were expensive whatnots that society finally convinced everyone the had to have instead of wanted to have. And a day when whatever mom and pop had I will do better agonies gripped common sense. And how about $75 Reboks and $50 jeans with pockets torn loose and a hole in the seat? Now, it ended and employers no longer pay for the perks they did back then to encourage people to work for them and they no longer pay the expenses of moving a person across the country because they felt he or she was needed across the country, Free health insurance is history but it wasn't always. Vacations with pay and paid holidays were the normal and time and a half overtime pay when the boss needed some extra work performed. Yeah, lots of folks today are holding jobs as parttimers working almost full time and get NO benefits.

A young fellow dropped by his dad's house to show-off his new pick-up truck. His dad went outside, strolled into the driveway and kicked the tires like an old timer might do, and asked, "what did this cost?" and the lad said, "33,000 dollars but it's got everything" and the dad pointed to his house -- the house that lad was born to and was raised in -- and said, "I only gave $13,000 for that house that's kept me warm and dry for nearly thirty years".

It's time to pay up but don't let those who are not yet golden agers point at the old timers and blame them exclusively because lots of them profited quite generously when inflation increased the values of their home so rapidly that they couldn't wait to sell the last one and take the profit for a down payment on the next one which, by comparison was a mansion not a house -- three car garage, two dens, family room, three baths, air conditioning and uh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If there are losers it would be the kids who haven't reached maturity yet and even in those cases I see them walking across intersections while texting their phones or playing their game oblivious to the traffic that could kill them.

Pay day, pay day. what you gon'na do with a drunken soldier? Put him in the guard house 'til he gets sober? Pay day, pay day!"

Gramps

facing the threat of backwards fascism we see them more and more thankfully:


Here is Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley explaining why his state raised taxes on the rich to pay for necessary services:

Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland, the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, gave an impassioned defense of his approach to mayors from across the state who gathered here at the end of last month at the annual convention of the Maryland Municipal League.“Without any anger, and without any meanness, and without any fear, let’s ask one another in these critical months ahead and years ahead: how much less do we think would be good for our state?” Mr. O’Malley asked. “How much less do we think would be good for our country? How much less education would be good for our children? How many fewer college degrees would make our state or our country more competitive? How much less research and development would be good for the innovation economy that we have an obligation and a responsibility, a duty and an imperative, to embrace? How many fewer hungry Maryland kids can we afford to feed? Progress is a choice: we can decide whether to make the tough choices necessary to invest in our shared future and move forward together. Or we can be the first generation of Marylanders to give our children a lesser quality of life with fewer opportunities.”
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[wobblies]

One of the stunning things about this no-new-taxes mantra is that it results in Conservatives not funding law and order requirements of local jurisdictions. Career criminals are being released from jail and committing more crimes.

evidently you have been paying more than your getting for your money, third California city now files bankruptcy and doesn't appear it will be the last one.......

 

[Arkady]

It's just too bad the Democrats with spines don't tend to be in federal government. At the state level, there's only so much good you can do: raise taxes on the rich too much, and there's a very real risk they'll flee across the border to a lower-tax state. Moving your business from, say, Chevy Chase, Maryland, to Arlington, Virginia, isn't like trying to move it from the US to some low-tax haven abroad. It's a very easy thing to do, and with there being no legal barriers against the free movement of labor, goods, and capital, from one state to another, and almost no practical hurdles against such movement (no currency changes, language barriers, or high shipping costs), there is a serious risk of liberal policies backfiring when implemented at a state level. And it's not just the risk of driving away the rich. There's also a risk of attracting the poor. If Virginia has draconian social systems, while Maryland has generous ones, it's going to tend to draw social problems from Virginia to Maryland. That's why even when a policy is the right one on the national level, it might not be the right one on the state level.