Clinton's come from behind win makes it clear this is a Super Tuesday contest, watch Clinton's family business, politics, come sweeping out with every trick they know, and they know plenty, and waltz their way through the primaries....This is Elvis's birthday, that ought to help you put real meaning into all of this.   McCain won New Hampshire with 37% of the vote to Romney's strong second place finish with 28 %.  Huck is really happy to have gotten the votes he did and now is preparing to battle his way down south in Super Tuesday voting.   Fred Thompson ought to see if Law and Order will take him back...he could bring Ron Paul along as a character actor.   Bill Clinton says Obama's claims are the biggest fairy tale he has ever heard
Oback Obama might rethink his decision to take off the American flag pin from his lapel as he heads out across the nation to the next Democratic primary in Nevada...the pin is a small symbol of a proud nation, he will find out to his own chagrin what an important label it is...Edwards says he is going forward with his nation-wide race for the White House....Clinton's campaign will now gear up for crushing her opponents....John Edwards is giving a poignant voice to the homeless veterans living under bridges and in parks all over the nation, he is telling the stories of those who live in the richest nation in the world and lack health care...Edwards gave a stirring speech and made it clear he ain't getting out, 99 % of the voters have yet to speak...Hillary's tearful coffee shop scene showed that this witch has a heart after all...looks like it changed the tide for her campaign...
Donna Brazille on CNN rakes Bill Clinton over the coals for being critical of Obama.

Hillary says we will win the war in Iraq "the right way" restore respect around the world and take care of our veterans...  Obama says no one would have imagined three weeks ago that he would have gotten such a big vote in New Hampshire...Hillary says she wants more spirit and talent and grit...Hillary's handlers learned a lot about last week, they cleaned all the worn out hags, hacks and grim faced retreads that had appeared behind her on election night in Iowa and get dozens of young supporters to wave and cheer for her every word, restoring youth to her campaign as much as the votes reenergized her words and spirit, she was actually good on the stump on the stage!  "I found my voice" said Hillary....who now is back in the driver's seat...
Diok Morris on Fox News said Hillary showed an extraordinary capacity to come back to fight, to restore herself and she is likely to go on to the White House, even though he thinks she will make a horrible President.   She did much better among old people while Obama carried the vote among young people...who usually don't vote.  Clearly the crying helped show she was a tender soul not the dispassionate witch that she appeared.   Morris says it will go to Super Tuesday and is splitting the anti-Clinton vote, the oldest trick in the book...
Governor Martin O'Malley was among many out of state politicians who went to campaign for Hillary in New Hampshire...Union voters came out big for Clinton and will be an important part of her strategy in the bigger states.  South Carolina, where Clinton has strong support among blacks, who make up nearly half of that State's party, will now be a slugfest.
 

It’s Just Money from Up the Road

”Order in the Board Room,” demanded Jack No Terrier Russell. “We have some more of these free government dollars from up the road to hand out. Now, those who donated to my campaign, I am glad to see that Robin put them on the top of the deck. Now thank you Miss Patsy for that nice check you made out to my boat fund, it’ll buy the boys in the crew a lot of rum and coke. Do I hear a motion to give Miss Patsy’s nice little shop money to put in new azaleas, some nice new potting soil, a pretty pear tree and a partridge too? Thank you Kenny for your motion, who will second this small little item of $45,222.08 for Miss Patsy? Thank you Danny for your support, now will there be any discussion about this government money from up the road going to improve Miss Patsy’s business? Hearing none, lets have the ayes and nays, only ayes, okay, this here expenditure is done, its history and its another example of staff doing a good job in identifying my political supporters and finding ways we can pay them back with up the road money which doesn’t cost the good citizens of the county anything.”

“But I voted no,” said Commissioner Moonbeam, “after all, even though I am greener than that phony Al Gore, I am still a cheapskate Republican at heart and I don’t care what big spenders the Bush people are, we still have to call for fiscal prudence at every opportunity.”
“How do I get my cousin Henry’s tire business on this list of getting government money for sprucing up the joint,” asked Kenny. “This is a good deal, you mean the county uses up-the-road money to spend on new sidewalks, benches, bushes and pushing up daisies?”

“I have a hard time voting for this stuff,” said Raley. “We are taking money out of the pockets of people who can’t afford to pay taxes much at all, we are taxing retirement income, we are taking money from everyone with a 20 percent increase in the sales tax and then we are handing it out in big dollops of dollars to business owners with properties which assess for over a million dollars? Why can’t they buy their own streetscapes? Jarboe is right, they spend like there is no tomorrow on their fancy waterfront homes, their pricey boats or oceanfront condos, but they won’t plant flowers unless the taxpayers fund it?”
“Now Brother Dan, I don’t know why you are siding with that Republican on this hot button issue,” said Russell. “Its real simple, we don’t need to be having accountability and all that jazz. Its about the big picture.”

 

Lobbyists for carpools

The official position of the Republicans in last year’s election was to oppose commuter rail service to Southern Maryland as it would bring development and crime to the region, in spite of the fact that the giveaway zoning policies of Charles County Commissioners over the years, as well as St. Mary’s County Commissioners, gave the developers all they wanted which in turn, brought in all the crime. 
The Democrats are raising taxes and reforming the tax structure, which will give the middle income earners the first break ever from Maryland’s weird tax system. 

Already the Republicans are hollering which means that the proposals might be fair to the middle class. 

Who hires lobbyists to take the legislators out to dinner and invite them to cocktail parties in Annapolis?  Have you seen the new Hyatt in Annapolis? Don’t worry, you won’t be invited to a legislative roundtable one morning in January sponsored by the bankers, or a cocktail party put on by the Chamber of Commerce or a racetrack outing put on by the trial lawyers.  Imagine if your carpool held an event in Annapolis to lobby legislators on a bill of interest to the people who you drive to work with.  Would you have the black tie affair at McDonalds or Checkers, perhaps at table # 3 with the sticky top, listening to the screaming sirens rushing past you on Rt. 235. What would you talk about if a dozen Senators showed up at your table.  What if Charlie Hall held a political meeting at his Politics Shed in his back yard.  Charlie says that he moved the Politics Shed to his new home in Leonardtown and intends on staying involved in Seventh District Elections as they gave him dual citizenship, he remains a citizen of the Seventh District as well as a being a Maryland resident and is therefore entitled to vote twice. Would politicians come to hear what people have to say at breakfast at Linda’s Café? 

But it’s time for Maryland’s Democrats to back up their campaign promises with real progress.

To his credit, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley has already injected $4 million into the Transportation Study that the Ehrlich Administration attempted to kill.

 But the bureaucrats should not be allowed to smother this study, hell, ask anyone who drives to the metro area how much fun they are having.  Rail commuters read, use their laptops and nap when traveling.  The GOP thinks that criminals will hop a train from Bowie to Waldorf, get off the train, burglarize a home, steal a big tv from a home and carry the tv back to the station to catch a train back to PG County. 
These DC and PG county hoodlums simply hijack a car from a working stiff and go where they please, don’t buy train tickets or coordinate their criminal activities around a train schedule. 

The Republicans are so damn dumb to think like this that this helps explain why this nation is so messed up. We thought the GOP would be more efficient than the left-wing Democrats. Instead, the Republicans are just greedy and stupid.  Your views on these issues are welcome staff1@stmarystoday.com.

Old Hambone was out at the Jena 6 Rally in Lexington Park an hour early.  Hambone has a lot more meat on his bones, proving that he must have a desk job at the grocery store and no longer has to stock the Clorox or put out the cheese trays now that he is an executive.  Hambone was waving his arms around in wild gesturing which shows he just may be warming up for another run for office.  Jackie Russell has yet to define himself, other than being a very polite moderator of the commissioner meetings.  Jack Russell (no terrier) or Hambone?  Of course, Hamgone (Hambone) could be simply warming up for another race against Dyson.  It could be he was inspired by the stirring fight put on by Mike Thompson (the Harold Stassen of SMECO elections) and figures that he should run once more for the State Senate.  Why not, he could only improve his vote total from the Thumping he took from Dyson. 

Who was the woman with orange hair at the Jena 6 Rally, doesn’t she know that black women should avoid orange hair except on Halloween?

Nace Bowman will never be able to convince people that he didn’t arrange for the F-18 flyover which was truly inspiring to those in attendance, along with the blaze orange sky at sunset….matching the orange hair of the woman on the stage.

Where in the world do the people at St. Mary’s College live?  The rarefied air of St. Mary’s City must be a little thin, meaning that less oxygen gets to the brain.  One after the other, the College proposes things for the college community which have no support from the county community.  Do the townies always have a different view of things from the teacup crowd at the college?

The boathouse which was torn down was a fraction of the size of new one and the River Center structure yet to be built is four times the size of the new boathouse.  This will be a yacht club.

The Bridge to Nowhere is an outrageous waste of money when we have real needs for public funds.  The idea that elementary school kids across America have to wait and cross on streets with heavy traffic but we are suddenly going to blow $2 million bucks on a pedestrian overpass for a bunch of stoned college kids. 

This is just wrong and the money should go to building a new bridge at Solomon’s, not a foot bridge at St. Mary’s City.