He won't. Hell I couldn't vote for him, and I'm open to either party. He wouldn't be the worst president we ever had, but dear goodness if we cant do better.

No doubt he would institute a Carbon tax. You breathed 20,000 times last week. You now owe $200!

Seriously, what don't they tax? I just got my Pepco bill... they stick a bunch of taxes and fees in there. Flush tax. Sales tax. Car tax. Income tax. Property tax. Gas tax. Gun tax (and confiscation).

Crazy!

No, your tax on exhaled air is a POLLUTION TAX since the EPA ruled CO2 is a pollutant and bad for the Earth.

I know, right? The thought of actually paying for all the services you receive must really disgust you, Craig. Free! I want everyone else to pay for my sewers and roads, damn it!

Frank, CO2 is CO2, all the same regardless of the source, Einstein.

What can possibly be the difference between CO2 and CO2?

You have absolutely got to be kidding me. "He would make a great President??" Steve, I want you to move to Zimbabwe. Or Zaire. Or how about Greece? I heard Greece has a great economy run by socially-conscious and fiscally inept leaders.

O'Malley is terrible. Not a disaster, but terrible. He would be awful as President. He is partisan. He is boring. WHEN HAS HE NOT RAISED TAXES?

Do you support manufacturing Steve? Or is that liberal lip service? How about jobs? Not government jobs... you know, real jobs. Do you support those? How's Maryland doing? Without the federal largesse, where would we be?

You are clueless and it is really, really scary.

"Federal largess" is over rated. It's one of the only talking points the MD Flat Earth Society's aka "Change Maryland" has.

Greece is fine. They are being bailed out by the Chinese.

@Steve - Greece is fine??? Are you on the Soros payroll? Wow. I've heard of big-government and communist lovers, but you're making Statists blush.

Care to post in Mandarin?

President?! HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, ................. you don't mean President of the United States?! Maybe President of the Montgomery County Irish Band Society, but President of the USA? Only if the US becomes 60% democrat and KKT doesn't run against him in the primaries!

Of course you do, you are a leftist tool.

Now see, from a poly sci angle, I can totally see O'Malley as a VP candidate.

I also don't think Hillary wants it. Really. I have been very impressed with her work as Sec State (yes, Benghazi is a overhyped blip on the screen). I think based on her interviews it's changed her, though. I really think she's done with DC.

Hillary will be 70 years old. Too old... plus there are health concerns. Sorry Hillary, your time came and went.

Here's the BIG secret: the Dems bench is WEEEEAK. No way O'Malley wins. You think he wins in the Midwest? Or in the South? HE IS BORING. He doesn't have the speech-making ability or the propaganda of Obama.

The Republicans don't have anybody who can beat him. Are they going to run another "The Emperor's New Clothes" campaign like they did with Rmoney and locally with BGEhrlich.
Everybody working on the campaign was afraid to tell the candidate he was losing. The only person shocked on Election Day was the candidates.

O'Malley should be the Ambassador to Ireland. Get him the heck outta here and he can take his stupid rock band too.

Steve,are you the Steve who got the$100,000 from O'Malley to start a phony opinion poll company? Opinion Works mission and the strange $100,000 grant to a Steve that will help change opposition by changing people'sperception.Now you are making sense.

You are apparently ignorant of what the proposed gun legislation would consist of, if you're attempting to speak out against it.

Why should we ever pay for services not rendered, let alone squandered by misuse, abuse, or "paybacks" to political affiliations, lobbyists, and the like ? Whether as individuals. states, or in the federal capacity ? The federal govenrment is claiming they can do a better job at "controlling" or running these things rather than charity or individuals/local/state government. Hows that been working ? It does not, never has. Study property rights and what that means as far as your own body, mind, and soul as it refers to the founders and Constitution. Not defending republicans but the progressives are a much,much more pro-socialism agenda driven political force that has little to no regard for the Constitution. There are scores of facts to prove it but don't look for it in our schools textbooks because that would not be "politically correct".

As a progressive democrat I would like to distinguish O'Malley, who is a raging Third Way corporate liberal working for wealth and corporations and progressives like Russ Feingold who know how to maintain everyone's quality of life by making corporations good citizens.
Russ Feingold for President 2016

Because we have the police to protect us, duh! Oh wait....

They don't have to protect you if you've called 911 repeatedly to report a threat. (Hartzler v. San Jose, Riss v. New York).

They don't have to protect you when you call 911 to report a break-in/rape IN PROGRESS. (Warren v. DC).

They don't have to protect you from the person you have a restraining order against. (Balistreri v. Pacifica Police Dept, Castle Rock v. Gonzales).

They don't have to protect you from a person they have under active surveillance. (Davidson v. Westminster).

They don't have to protect you from a person IN POLICE CUSTODY. (Ne Casek v. Los Angeles).

They don't have to protect you from a person ATTACKING YOU, but they are allowed to hide (http://gothamist.com/2013/01/27/city_argues_nypd_had_no_special_dut.php)!

Not only all of the above, but they are also expert marksmen (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/25/empire-state-building-shooting-nypd-bullets-shot-all-nine_n_1830007.html)!

They don't want us mere peasants to be able to defend ourselves, yet the people that are in place to supposedly do so, don't have to!

Maryland governors are restricted to two consecutive terms in office, after which they must wait one term before being eligible to run again.

How much of that increase in population are here illegally?

MD's population is up 9% between the last two censuses and is projected to keep growing.

Nobody's "fleeing " anywhere. That's just a lot of hot air.

"How much of that increase in population are here illegally?"

Practically none. Why?

P.S. grammar lessons. Check them out.

Steve, The entire country's population increased 9.7% and while Maryland's growth was only 9% below the national average it was the fastest growing state on the East coast in one major category, immigrants. I almost never use the Baltimore Sun as my go to source because of their blatant leftist slant on most articles but in this case they simply cannot recreate the facts from the Census so here you go.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-12-21/news/bs-md-census-population-20101228_1_hispanic-population-maryland-population-population-shifts

Ironically since O'Malley has been in office there was another 9% increase in the number Maryland residents in poverty as the numbers show from 2007 to 2011. So I do not think your misguided claim is all that incorrect, Maryland's population is growing but it is growing with the wrong people to help increase revenues through the tax base.

Efficiency is a scientific term that refers to the ratio of energy input to energy output. Tell me more, Doctor. I mean, I am a layman, not a scientist like you.

6666 years old

Infrastructure. 99% of your posts are childish.

A list of just Obama backed companies. I cant imagine how many others are out there.

The complete list of faltering or bankrupt green-energy companies:

Evergreen Solar ($25 million)*
SpectraWatt ($500,000)*
Solyndra ($535 million)*
Beacon Power ($43 million)*
Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)
SunPower ($1.2 billion)
First Solar ($1.46 billion)
Babcock and Brown ($178 million)
EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*
Amonix ($5.9 million)
Fisker Automotive ($529 million)
Abound Solar ($400 million)*
A123 Systems ($279 million)*
Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($700,981)*
Johnson Controls ($299 million)
Brightsource ($1.6 billion)
ECOtality ($126.2 million)
Raser Technologies ($33 million)*
Energy Conversion Devices ($13.3 million)*
Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million)*
Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million)*
Range Fuels ($80 million)*
Thompson River Power ($6.5 million)*
Stirling Energy Systems ($7 million)*
Azure Dynamics ($5.4 million)*
GreenVolts ($500,000)
Vestas ($50 million)
LG Chem’s subsidiary Compact Power ($151 million)
Nordic Windpower ($16 million)*
Navistar ($39 million)
Satcon ($3 million)*
Konarka Technologies Inc. ($20 million)*
Mascoma Corp. ($100 million)

CopyPasta from the Heritage Foundation. What is their definition of "floundering"?

Those darn facts will get ya every time. Man you guys just cant win a debate can you? Unless we count insults.

Oh, you are talking about financial viability, snotty-talking man.

That is a different proposition. Government has often been the jump-starter and financier of technical breakthroughs. Take, for example, jet propulsion, miniaturization of electronics, satellite technology, and genetic research. Only government can provide that degree of venture capital.

Similarly, it government provides the subsidies and military might that maintains the petroleum-based energy industry.

"Government has often been the jump-starter and financier of technical breakthroughs. Take, for example, jet propulsion, miniaturization of electronics, satellite technology, and genetic research. Only government can provide that degree of venture capital."

The Soviets called. They were asking for you.

I don't know where you get the idea that Government drives success and innovation. No idea.

Are we still talking about demand for electricity? What is this demand for wind?

You are most likely correct about O'Malley's national appeal. He is the proverbial "big fish" in the "small pond" right now. He would not attract the support needed for the "big job". Could he be a VP candidate, sure anybody can.....just need to be asked. I think that's been proven.

Is there one area you could identify where you could say, "that guy Owe'malley is a centrist"? No there isn't.

Come on, you know he is, just admit it. If Owe'malley is not a leftist than who is? Is there a governor in this country who is further left? Jerry Brown? Cuomo? Patrick? Owe'malley I believe is a leftist at heart but he's also trying to attract the far left base of the democrat party which dominates the primary. That's how we got the person we have in the white house today.

You didn't answer a straightforward question.

amark said, "Owe'malley is a man of the extreme left."

You said it, please define "extreme left".

The values of the far left include high taxes, including confiscatory rates on the "rich". Also massive govt spending to stimulate the economy rather than giving the private sector the ability to thrive. Near total govt control over areas such as education, healthcare, and many other areas of the economy. Obviously oppostion to the 2nd amendment. Their view is basically the state has the power over the individual (except on gay marriage and use of drugs, neither of which I really have a problem with btw, because I am consistent in my belief of freedom) in every area of their lives. We haven't gotten all the way there yet, but are moving closer every day.

Extreme left would be someone who thinks that the government is the solution to every problem and seeks to control their constituents through taxation, regulation, and fear in order to advance a political agenda. (O'Malley would be the posterchild.)

By the way, has anyone ever asked themselves WHY O'Malley was under investigation by the FBI the entire time he was Mayor of Baltimore?

I wouldn't call that extreme left, amark. But, it more or less represents my stance.

"Rich" might equal two standard deviations beyond the average household income of approximately $50,000 per year in Maryland.

Stimulus in order to avoid sudden, massive deflation is indicated.

Education is viewed as a function of government not as an industry.

Basic healthcare is a right, not a commodity on sale to the highest bidder.

Firearms purchased in the open (transparently,eh?), registered and used for hunting or for sport is legitimate.

And, yes, we need to hang together or hang severally. Life is tough in a hard world with diminishing natural resources. Predatory individualism will be the death of nearly all of us.

I believe in freedom and individual rights 1ke. You believe in collectivism. That is just a difference between you and me.

Funny, though, amark, I feel kinda free. I mean, don't you?

There is not much that I want to do that I am prevented from doing. I guess my only limits are my lack of ambition and drive to be something other than what I am.

I feel badly for poor people who need a better cut of the action.

I hate institutional racism that carves the republic into pieces.

I do not like the fact that I am despised in some circles because I am an American.

Don:
Now there is an idea that could get some traction...it is renewable, sustainable and cheap. :)

Amen! Nice to see that at least one person in Maryland has seen the light...

Advice: Move south where freedom still exists while you still can...

"think Solyndra"

What a freakin sheep. What, think Solyndra because some conservative nut told you to? Because Solyndra has exactly nothing to do with anything in this article. What on earth does a freaking windmill have to do with a private solar company? I can't stand people who are so uneducated that they just regurgitate whatever talking point they heard 3 years ago and pretend like it was ever relevant, much less to this situation.

jag, have you ever thought of anger management classes?

wtf are you talking about?

A. the wind legislation has been pushed for years by O'Malley - pick up a newspaper, guy.
B. "NOT ONE SINGLE TIME have I seen a person who purchased a handgun legally use it to commit a crime" This quite possibly is the dumbest statement ever uttered and also completely misses the entire point of the reforms O'Malley is pursuing. "That is just sad..." indeed.

J,
Thanks for putting your life on the line every day as a law enforcement officer. I am sure you never know what you are going to be confronted with on a daily basis. Having previously worked with government on many levels, you are absolutely correct in saying that they are the problem. Unfortunately, a lot of time and money is wasted on trying to work around the needless barriers concocted by government "lifers" who were in their positions by virtue of connections not intelligence or skill.

Folks are a little misguided about the gun issue. What they really need to be talking about is having appropriate access to quality mental health services. Our mental health system in this state is deplorable due to managed care and cost-cutting. We also need to be screening troubled youth at a much earlier point in their lives, versus turning a blind eye to what is seen coming in the school doors each and every morning. Teachers and school administrators can and must do better. We need to create a better safety net for our youth. Keep in mind that during O'Malley's tenure, he has consistently cut funding for services to children and families.

"Most renewables are way more expensive per kilowatt than traditional sources."

That's the entire point of govt. investment. Why do you think the "traditional sources" are affordable? First, generations of public investment, subsidization that still exists today on a massive scale. Second, over the years the cost of anything comes down as efficiency naturally goes up. Solar is already a fraction of the cost is was even 5 years ago. In another 5 years it might very well be cheaper than drilling, shipping, refining, transporting, distributing oil/coal. That's the entire point of investment and progress (I know that's a bad word in your circles, but it's true).

"Second, over the years the cost of anything comes down as efficiency naturally goes up."

Though, to argue with myself, that certainly isn't necessarily the case with non-renewables. Obviously, setting up a massive rig many miles offshore because all the easy-to-reach oil is already out of the ground is extremely expensive compared to the good ol' days.

The only real reason for the success of alternative energy in Europe is cost. Economics will always control the ultimate success or failure of wind power unless it is artificially supported by govt. If fossil fuels were cheap in Europe, wind power would face the same obstacles as in the U.S.

Economics in Europe are that the government discourages fossil fuel usage through high taxation on their use/attainment. That's not really cost economics, that is good policy. How about we prop the gas tax up $3 a gallon here in the U.S., use the billions of dollars to fund additional public transportation and offshore wind farms that reduce our needs for fossil fuels. Would that make you feel better about it?

I just think we have the opportunity to do both.

"How about we prop the gas tax up $3 a gallon"

And that would do what to small business with 3 or 6 trucks on the roads every day?
What would that do to the price of food?
What would that do to the coat of EVERYTHING delivers by the use of fossil fuels?

Why are we not doing more with natural gas? The ONLY alternative to transportation fuels we have now or for the next 30 years?

We will still need to drill for oil if for nothing else but the thousands and thousands of products we use daily that use oil in their manufacture. One 42-gallon barrel of oil creates 19.4 gallons of gasoline. The rest (over half) is used to make things like:
http://www.ranken-energy.com/Products%20from%20Petroleum.htm

Sanchez...it's called diesel. Diesel =/= gasoline. Not that I agree with BadStatistics, but that certainly isn't based off some loose relation to the "what about the small businesses!" talking point you're trying to regurgitate and fit to the situation.

Regurgitate? Bite me jag! Go to hell.

When the price of gas rises so does the price of diesel. Regurgitate that!

Spain Stops Green Energy Subsidies
Spain halted subsidies for renewable energy projects to help curb its budget deficit and rein in power-system borrowings backed by the state that reached 24 billion euros ($31 billion) at the end of 2011. “What is today an energy problem could become a financial problem,” Industry Minister Jose Manuel Soria said in Madrid. The government passed a decree today stopping subsidies for new wind, solar, co-generation or waste incineration plants.
The system’s debts were racked up as revenue from state- controlled prices failed to cover the cost of delivering power. Costs have swollen in the past five years because of an increase in regulated payments for the power grid, support for Spanish coal mines and subsidies for renewable energy plants.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/44251

Are you an idiot? You think wind turbines meeting demand and some having to be temporarily shutdown is a bad thing? FYI, since, as you've made clear you're an idiot, coal plants are regularly shut down or brought online depending on demand as well. That's how a freakin power grid works, genius. Jesus help me, the things I have to explain to you.

Hey Carol. "cuntry"? Hahahahahahahaha!

Like I posted before, people aren't leaving. We are gaining in population.