Marty O’Malley, eyes presidential bid
Buzzfeed reports that jerkweed liberal POS Martin O’Malley, the Maryland Governor, is assembling a “framework” for a run at the 2016 presidential race.
O’Malley last spoke at length about his presidential ambitions in April, when he told The Baltimore Sun he would give “serious consideration” to a White House race as he rounds out what will be his second and last term as governor of Maryland.
Asked how that process has been going so far, O’Malley said, “It’s going well.”
He described a handful of recent speeches as the conduit through which he has been able to present his national policy beliefs to a wider audience. “[I’ve] given a number of talks: the commencement at St. Mary’s College, the climate change talk, the Center for American Progress,” he said.
“So by the end of this year, I think we’re on course to have a body of work that lays the framework of a candidacy for 2016,” said O’Malley, who is here in Wisconsin this weekend for the National Governors Association summer meeting.
The only thing that O’Malley has accomplished as governor of Maryland is raise taxes on working Marylanders (spending the surplus he inherited in less than three months after his inauguration), passed anti-gun legislation that will do absolutely nothing for safety except limit the choices of law-abiding Marylanders, and pay off his political cronies by creating six-figure jobs for them in his administration.
Among his more ridiculous tax hike schemes is when he introduced a tax on homeowners based on how much rain falls on their property. He calls illegal immigrants “new Americans”, he says that paying taxes without questioning them is “patriotic”. Yeah, the Democrats really need to get O’Malley to run for President, on his record as governor.
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Sounds like the perfect dem candidate, all he needs now is a sex scandal like Clinton or Weiner..
Wow, he really IS the bottom of the barrel.
He is a slickster of the first order, a manipulator par excellence, and an escape artist. He knows the camera, sound bites, and can use them both masterfully. If the BIG media decide that he’s their boy, we’ll hear little of the truth about him. Obamaman’s election and re-election proved that when they put a lid on something, the lid stays on tightly–until it’s too late. (Interestingly, O’Malley endorsed H. “Wide Load” Clinton and headed up her state (or regional–I forget which) campaign.)
“Hell”ary Clinton will get the Democrat nomination so O’Malley will be lucky to get the VP position. Plus, O’Malley has a terrible record in Maryland and even taxes rain that falls on private property.
I hope his successor is better, because I’m probably going to wind up in Maryland after I finish my retirement vacation. I don’t really want to, but my wife’s family is all there or nearby and that’s where the majority of cleared jobs are located. I hate the fact that they’ll tax my retired pay that I never earned there. PA has a state income tax, but doesn’t tax pensions. But no jobs for me there.
Maybe he can take GOV Dan Malloy from Connecticut as his running mate! His only positive contribution was to allow liquor stores to open on Sunday until 5PM!
Perfect lib candidate! Now all we need is to find out he has been breaking in interns and he’ll be a liberal lock at the convention!
We need a damn good Vet in office. Give me a name and I’ll start to work on them and for them right now!!
Hey, Jonn what are you doing for the next, Ummm.. 4 years or so? Hmm?
#5 NavCWO4Ret, the only good thing about Maryland is that there are so many other states nearby. West Virginia, for example, doesn’t tax military pensions (the first $20,000 is tax free, anyway). Maryland doesn’t tax the first $5000.
John, I’ll probably wind up in the North Potomac/Germantown area near mi esposa’s family. Pray for me.
IF the three western counties in MD were wise, the would secede and join WVa.
Or become part of southern PA.
Harpers Ferry is a 40 minute drive to Germantown.
What a cockholster.
Turdball.
What is it with East/Left Coast Libtards??
Between Chris Christie for the RepubliTards and Marty O’Malley for the DemonRats, the average fly-over middle class working stiff can’t catch a break.
Just another snot-headed Proglodyte !
I don’t think that I have to try too hard to convince most of my brothers and sisters on this blog NOT to vote for this scumbag, but I’ll say it anyway…
DON’T VOTE FOR THIS SCUMBAG WHEN HE RUNS FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!
He is the worst of the worst.
I live in Frederick which we consider to be the start of western Maryland. I pray every day that the leaders here simply secede from the rest of the state. Baltimore and the Montgomery County mafia control this state. Grrr!
If only there had been more patriotic tax paying Americans in 1773. :p
A nice toljaso.
O’Malley has a fairly good chance. He’s made the rounds at Podesta’s Center for American Progress, and if anointed by Podesta, O’Malley will get most of the blogosphere and the NYT.
There’s a a lot of blue on blue going on, and it’s going to get worse. Hillary does keep lists and does hold grudges and is vicious when it serves her. The Dems who stabbed her in the back know this, and know Obama’s patronage is ending quickly.
The gov is probably throwing an 0bama hissy fit, all wee-wee’d.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/08/04/maryland-demands-lower-insurance-rates-aetna-says-sayonara-to-the-states-insurance-exchange/
Shame on you people, I had a few good things to relate about Gov. O’Mally, but from reading so far how many of you feel, Well, I think I’ll Pass, Catch you in the next election.
This clown is a terrible Governor.
Illinois does not tax retirement income, but is not up to par on bringing in jobs that last.
Hey, Sam! We like to hear good things about people, even if they are generally horrid people and even worse “civil servants.”
Muthuhfuggin’ Marty O’Malley. He’ll be Hillary’s running mate.
@17. “Proglodyte”? BwaHaHaHa. Well done, Infidel.
What sickens me is after all the shit she’s pulled, nearly three decades of shit piling up, and there are already stickers on cars around here wanting this screeching harpy (Hillary) for President. And O’Malley is a serious contender as well?
Fuck, let’s just throw in “legacy governor” Cuomo too, just to round out the douchebag trifecta.
That was a joke, Dems. Don’t…aw, shit.
@22. “Shame on you people, I had a few good things to relate about Gov. O’Mally…”
According to a June 2013 article by the Washington Examiner, O’Malley has okayed 40 (!) new or increased taxes and fees since taking office. He talks about ‘fairness’ and those evil corporations but he screws the middle-income taxpayer. Sound familiar? He truly is presidential material, by current standards. Hey, you like fishing? He raised the fee. You like to drink alcoholic beverages? They went up too. Sales tax? Up. Cigarettes? Doubled. Handgun registration and licensing? They rose, too. Gasoline? You guessed it: upsy daisy. If you are rich, your income tax rose. Rich? Oh, rich is $100,000 per annum. Need a death certificate? Doubled the fee to acquire one. Buying a used car? Dealer fee increase is passed on to you. Selling a home? Transfer fee rose. There are many, many more. So. Go ahead Sam. Tell us the good stuff about O’Malley.
@29. In addition to the tax increases to the middle class, his stance on gun control has forced Beretta Corp to pull up stakes and leave the state, costing MD several hundred jobs as well as millions in corporate tax revenue.
Sorry, Sam, I just don’t see how you can support a politician that allows things like that to happen under his watch.
2/17 Air Cav: you forgot the best one about O’Mally and his attempts to
bleed the taxpayers dry by raising additional money to squander on bogus crapget more money from the MD taxpayers. He proposed adding sales tax to gasoline sales – on top of the existing state gas tax. That would raise the net price another 15-20 cents per gallon.Seriously.
The from what I read, even the MD state legislature didn’t buy that one.