Libs in MD want credit for effort, GOP points to setbacks

Using information and some quotes found in the news article here (from Washington Times): GOP points to legal setbacks. There are a few interesting points raised in the article, including my main point about the big differences between liberals and conservatives (or even moderates).

In the liberal world, at least in the last few years, we've heard more and more about how we have to give credit for effort, while conservatives and moderates demand results before giving credit. In liberal land, it's ok to fail miserably, as long as you tried. In the real world trying is good, but if the results were failure, than the final grade would be failure.

For most people this all makes sense. As an example, if you were testing potential lifeguards, would you pass the lifeguard that couldn't rescue someone for their final exam? Would you want that individual working at a pool where you were swimming, or perhaps your children or family members were swimming? I think not. On the other hand, it makes perfect sense that the potential lifeguard that completes the rescue effort should pass the exam and should easily be employable.

Well, since the disease of liberalism has started invading other areas of our lives, now it seems that the pol's were really just softening us all up to get credit for themselves and their own failed efforts. I guess it's all part of the Wasted Leftwing Liberal Conspiracy. If at first you can't succeed, then just change the rules so that failure doesn't exist.

Some examples from the news article:

House Speaker Michael E. Busch, Anne Arundel County Democrat, said the setbacks will not hurt lawmakers because voters know they had to address major problems, including the lack of health care benefits for Wal-Mart employees and the utility company's proposed 72 percent rate increase.
"Effort counts for something," Mr. Busch said.

This was in answer to points raised here:

ANNAPOLIS -- Maryland Republicans say the setbacks of several laws this month passed by the Democrat-controlled legislature over Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s vetoes will rattle voters going into the fall elections.
"This is about public confidence in the legislature and the decisions the General Assembly makes," said Shareese N. DeLeaver, spokeswoman for the re-election campaign for Mr. Ehrlich, a Republican. "Right now their ability to make decisions is being questioned on several issues."

I hope that the spokeswoman is right. I hope that Governor Ehrlich easily wins reelection. In most places it wouldn't even be a race, but in Maryland, where a dead (or live) rat that was a declared Democrat can win most elections just by getting their name on the ballot, it isn't necessarily easy. Even with papers that aren't as Democrat friendly as the worthless Baltimore Sun Papers (not even good for use as bird cage liner!) helping to remind readers that wanna be Governor, currently Mayor of Baltimore City Martin O'Malley has had some serious failures on his watch there are still many O'Malley bumper stickers, signs and other propaganda popping up all over. Democrats in this state, as they seem to do nation wide, will back a complete turd in an election as long as they pledge their loyalty to Democrat causes, and pander (or at least promise to pander) to liberal special interests.

Perhaps if the people of the state would take a little of the advice that has been offered to the NAACP in recent history and stop letting themselves be taken for granted then the pol's would wake up to what should be a changed landscape, though actually it probably should be one that never changed at all -- one where results matter and efforts are nice but don't earn the passing grades.

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I should mention at this point that I still wouldn't take odds on whether or not Governor Ehrlich gets a second term. He most certainly deserves one, but again, in Maryland politics you can never count on what should happen, only that Democrats will pull out virtually all stops to try to win races.

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It goes to the liberal mantra of "it is not the results that matter, but the intentions". That is not new, or unique to your state.

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It goes to the liberal mantra of "it is not the results that matter, but the intentions". That is not new, or unique to your state.

Nope, not new nor unique here at all, just part of the big old Liberal conspiracy...

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