Posted on 01/08/2013 2:12:51 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Dread. Usually not a word one associates with the New Year… well, provided one is not a glass half-empty sort. Hopeful, encouraged, positive… that sort of rot is what travels the aural circuit in the week or so following clean-slate day.
But ‘round these parts – and near the nether regions of other state capitals – the newly-birthed year is greeted with a level of enthusiasm rivaled only by the anticipatory feeling derived from the possibility of a TSA cavity search.
And that point of comparison is frighteningly accurate; given said cavity is the only place our local legislators have yet to go spelunking about in search of extra revenue.
Hence the aforementioned trepidation… with the New Year comes the beginning of the annual 90-day gathering of the organized crime syndicate we call the Maryland General Assembly.
This year, thanks to the second Wednesday of January landing in the single digits, the elected Masters of Misdeeds will amass on the ninth day of the month.
Yet, long before the holidays thrust their humbuggery upon us the idling minds of the 188 members begin plotting the once a year assault on our wallets, liberties and most importantly, our intelligence.
While the non-ruling class max their credit cards, carve their turkeys and fight over the yuletide buffet with drunken Uncle Bob, the swells are already weaving a wily plot in preparation for January 9.
They call this process “pre-filing”, and many of these early-turds are not really in search of the legislation worm, but serve merely as trial balloons to gauge public reaction…you know, government according to which way the wind blows.
Or at least until the majority party decides it’s good for us whether we want it or
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Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Nanny State PING!
Nanny State PING!
Ha! You think Maryland has it bad. Here in NY the legislature couldn’t steal enough working part time. For years they’ve considered themselves full time legislators. The biggest crooks somehow manage to also have no-show jobs being “Of Counsel” to large ambulance chasing law firms and are handsomely rewarded for whoring themselves out to the tort bar at the expense of taxpayers and other crime victims.
If you live in Maryland you wince everytime you hear the words “legislative assembly”. Maryland’s road signs should read :”Welcome to the People’s Republic of Maryland” (one Party, one vote)
If you live in Maryland you wince everytime you hear the words “legislative assembly”. Maryland’s road signs should read :”Welcome to the People’s Republic of Maryland” (one Party, one vote)
I usually call it “The People’s Democratic State of Maryland.” After 48 years of putting up with it, I now call myself a Virginian.
My Maryland house is severely under water...and my property taxes just went up. Go figure.
“Creeping lunacy” -and/OR- riding the slippery slope to Moonbatville..
Thanks for the ping!
Jeepers...
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