[marylandrepub1]

Vetoing tax breaks for homosexual couples(called unmarried couples by The Sun), minimum wage, helping business health care cheats: that mean old governor Ehrlich is at it again. Well at least he added homosexuals to the hate crime law.(tip: don't get attacked in Maryland if you are white, male, enabled and hetrosexual: you probably deserve it!)

[sure_fine]

Howard Dean could have wrote this article, he is of the same mind

[Brilliant]

It was disappointing that Mr. Ehrlich felt obliged to veto the $6.15 minimum wage. His official explanation uses the same tired old excuse that a higher minimum wage kills jobs... Fortunately, it seems likely the General Assembly will overturn this sop to corporate interests when it reconvenes next January...

Finally, we would be remiss if we did not praise the governor's decision to veto legislation that would have required Wal-Mart to devote at least 8 percent of its payroll costs to health insurance. Maryland has no business micromanaging a private employer...

Seems somewhat contradictory to me...

[Alia]

rofl!! What! a propogandish bit o' tripe! "I'm a loving, sensible author of this article.. and I think Erlich does a little right; but he's not really right at all". Oh, boo-hooo!!! LOL!

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>>And Mr. Ehrlich's veto pen offers no strategy for protecting the state's more-responsible employers or its beleaguered taxpayers from that growing burden.

Of course it doesn't. It's an inanimate object. What he does by wielding it is block wasteful spending and nanny state overreach. That protects the taxpayers more than anything else the corrupt General Assembly could possibly cook up.

[NotSoFreeStater]

This is the kind of mind numbing mush we here in Maryland are subjected to every day.

[Jaysun]

Someone should call the mental health clinic to let them know that this nut's electroshock therapy machine needs to be ratcheted up next time.

[cruiserman]

I'm glad I left MD a while back.

It was disappointing that Mr. Ehrlich felt obliged to veto the $6.15 minimum wage. His official explanation uses the same tired old excuse that a higher minimum wage kills jobs. Mr. Ehrlich's veto just exacerbates the real problem -- the hardship placed on families by below-subsistence-level wages.

The Gov's explanation may be tired and old, but it's accurate. The Sun's explanation is just wrong.