Monday, March 1 – Nary an acknowledging word

The truth is an accident for right wing bloggers, pundits, and Fox News hosts.

Former Governor Ehrlich has caught the disease.

Governor O’Malley raised the sales tax “as a crippling recession hit the state and the nation,” Ehrlich asserts in an op-ed in yestyerday’s Washington Post.

The special session of 2007 took place before the recession began and nearly a year before the economic collapse in the fall of 2008.

Yet nary an acknowledging word is heard of the national economy a few sentences later. “Two years after the sales tax hike, more than 100,000 jobs have been lost in Maryland,” writes the former Governor, “and our state’s unemployment rate has hit a 26-year high.”

The former Governor also writes: “A mere 19 percent of Marylanders support same-sex marriage, according to a recent Baltimore Sun poll.”

That poll was taken two years ago, which doesn’t meet anybody’s definition of recent. My educated guess: More Marylanders would favor same-sex marriage in a poll that really was recent.

Couple this op-ed with the attack on the Governor’s trip to Iraq, and you get a preview of the kind of campaign candidate Ehrlich would wage this fall.