LOL, you're so right, government has nothing to do with crime prevention. #sarcasm.

Maryland DNA law? Increases in grant funding to local law enforcement? Violence Protection Initiative? The first word of the freakin blog post is "together" - the guy isn't saying he's the king of the world and is the sole cause of the drop in crime. But to contend he has zero to do with anything is just dumb. I'm sure if crime was up you'd be pretending like it's 100% his fault. You're such a joke.

Why am I not surprised I didn't get an answer as to specifics? Given that crime nationally has gone down about the same rate, are all state governments doing the same things?

I will wait for another non-answer under the guise of an intelligent reply.

How are those not specific enough for you? I pointed to a exact law, budget allocation shift, and an executive initiative. Just because you don't like that the answer, as it proves you to be an idiot, doesn't mean you can just pretend it doesn't exist, buddy.

Read more, dude.

...yes, that DNA law. That law that's still under appeal and is in use. You know, arguably the most important crime law passed in MD in a generation. Way to have that fly right over your head.

"What law was that he signed?" It's called the Maryland state budget. Feel free to learn about it sometime.

STRIKE 3! Your out!

...you don't know what strikes are, do you? Or maybe it's the word "your" (assuming you mean "you're" - that English sure is tricky, huh?) that you're unclear about?

Joe:
Being morally bankrupt as you say is not an exclusive trait pertaining to the "liberals". Sadly it's an affliction suffered by most politicians.....no matter what stripes they are wearing.

The age old "question" about how can you tell when a politician is lying? Answer: their "lips are moving".....that line has never held more truth than it does today.

The real question needs to be asked.....will the folks "see through it". In my opinion we are in a sad state of affairs politically and getting worse by the day..........many, many things to blame for this....

Every NEW president undergoes an epiphany when he gets his government briefing prior to his taking office and learns that he isn't going to be able to deliver on his campaign promises as well. Those are the facts, so that many foolish promises are never acted on.

For decades each NEW president had promised to release the secret files on UFOs. Never happened though. They all vowed to reduce the size of the White House Office building, which grows larger and leaks more secrets every time someone mentions they want to do this.
Good statements PcTech...

RMI: I agree and yes, this could turn into one of those 850 posts on why this is happening. Invariably it would turn into "my side vs. your side" and we would be back at square one again..............soooooo.....I ain't going there!

Can a straight shooter lead us anymore you ask? It ALL depends on the voters......

Like O'Malley invented gambling or slots or table games or pitching pennies.

I view gambling as a vice that has nothing at all to do with who holds political office. Such was the case with street numbers and casting lots at the foot of the Cross.

Another way to cut into the deficit and debt. How much was spent by ALL those running for elected office in 2012? Billions of dollars?
ALL campaign contributions to any candidate running for elective office is TAXED as normal income to the candidate receiving the contribution. EXACTLY as all income to you and I would be taxed!

at 15% and $2 billion in contributions that would have brought $300,000,000 to pay down the debt. Not much but a start and a way to treat politicians as they treat us, as an ATM!

?? How does a photo ID for security concerns not make sense? Requiring an ID for the PRIVILEGED to attend an event or drive a car makes sense. Requiring an ID to exercise the RIGHT to vote doesn't make sense. You honestly can't discern the difference between the two?

"Ignorance knows no bounds with this man."
I don't think you know what the word "ignorance" means. "Irony", maybe. Though, again, there's an obvious difference between entering the Governor's home and voting.

jag 1:20 pm on Monday, December 3, 2012 "...you don't know what strikes are, do you? "

jag 2:18 pm on Tuesday, December 4, 2012 "I don't think you know what the word "ignorance" means."

I think jag thinks he is the only person on the planet who knows anything. Always feeling superior to others. Always telling others what they "don't know".

I hope your feelings of superiority and supremacy over others helps you in your weekly sessions with your shrink. It sure make you look like an idiot here.

Now come in and tell me what else you don't know that I don't know.

You obviously don't know jag that that is not HIS house, it is OUR house.

I look like the idiot? That's rich, coming from the person who can't defend a single position of his after anyone and everyone comes by and points out how nonsensical they are. "Your" out, buddy.

The photo ID is a joke and even puny brain Joe knows it. Cry me a river Joey, you lost, your team stunk. Just swallow.

How could there be a bully here? We all have a keyboard and a Submit button.

More playground commentary from a Patch Vulture Bully! Grow the hell up child 1ke.

PcTech said "How about the 14,000 votes for Al Gore that were found in a vote counter's kitchen"

Man, you need to turn off Rachel Madcow for a while. News flash: Al Gore Lost multiple recounts even when the Democrats cherry picked heavily Democratic counties to recount.

There are plenty of flaws with our election system, but one are as bad as not requiring a person to prove their identity with an ID.

You are a joke Chris.

Ah. What a surprise. FIFA and Frank ride in and and contribute NOTHING. I see some things never change.

Have you heard of Wendy Rosen? Wendy Rosen, who was going to run against Harris, voted in both Florida and in Maryland in two elections. The Democrcats forced her out of the race. I guess they figured that she would be a distraction in any debate around voter ID laws.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-09-14/news/bs-md-wendy-rosen-withdraws-20120910_1_general-election-voter-fraud-vote-on-local-issues

Neocons complaining about voter fraud is like the wolf that cried wolf.

http://www.randomlengthsnews.com/blogs/Notebook/2012/10/the-wolf-that-cried-wolf/

think i'm gonna get me a house on each side of the potomac and a boat.

Two points boys:

1. While my example was someone who voted in Maryland and Florida, last I checked a few of our states share a common border. People don't need to fly anywhere to do this.

2.its a question of having faith in the system. Several precincts in Philly went 100% for Obama. Think about that. Not one republican vote? Not even a single accidental vote? While there is no proof that there was fraud in tis cases, the lack of any positive ID allows questions of legitimacy to fester.

You cant cash a check without ID. I don't think this is asking too much.

BTW Frank/FIFA (whichever you are today) ACORN may be defunct in name, but the organization lives on. I don't think they stole the election, but they have done a lot of really questionable things.

Joe, you know that kind of reasoning is flawed. No sense trying to correct it and becoming a bore while you do it.

Reagan and Bush I, $9.5 Trillion in deficits. Bush II $6.1 Trillion.

Get over it already. Gore lost!

He lost every single recount even when they were biased in his favor and even though the people counting the votes in those heavily democratic counties were manipulating the ballots to invalidate votes for Bush. Even after all of that he still lost. Thankfully, SCOTUS put an end to the charade.

There were plenty of irregularities this year, but I'm not going to pretend that Obama stole the election. He ran a better campaign and got out the vote. End of story.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/media_watch/jan-june01/recount_4-3.html

MEDIA RECOUNT: BUSH WON THE 2000 ELECTION April 3, 2001
"More than three months after Democrat Al Gore conceded the hotly contested 2000 election, an independent hand recount of Florida's ballots released today says he would have lost anyway, even if officials would have allowed the hand count he requested. In the first full study of Florida's ballots since the election ended, The Miami Herald and USA Today reported George W. Bush would have widened his 537-vote victory to a 1,665-vote margin if the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court would have been allowed to continue, using standards that would have allowed even faintly dimpled "undervotes" -- ballots the voter has noticeably indented but had not punched all the way through -- to be counted."