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The guy who keeps on impressing me is Martin O'Malley. He essentially pulled Maryland out of the economic toilet by himself...

 

I'm cherry-picking one sentence to make this particular point: when the economy picks up, every politician tries to take credit, and when the economy slumps, every politician tries to blame someone else.  It's like trying to take credit for the weather.

 

A friend of mine keeps saying Rick Perry is responsible for the economic success of Texas.   Which is hogwash.  Rick Perry didn't invent fracking, and he didn't build all those FEDERAL military bases in Texas.   Just like Bill Clinton didn't invent the PC, which was the cause of the economic boom that he and HC like to take credit for.  

 

Anyway, tell me, what did Martin O'Malley do to "pull Maryland out of the economic toilet by himself?"  Mind you, the economy in the entire country was recovering from the incredible financial disaster of 2008, so it would have been pretty odd if Maryland had not gotten out of the economic toilet. 

 

If I had to list every governor who is claiming to have been responsible for their state returning to prosperity, I'd have a list of 50 governors. 

 

You watch all these governors running for President.   One of the first things they say is "I created x number of jobs."   Well when you take office with the national unemployment rate at 10%, and you leave office with an employment rate at 6%, there better be some new jobs in your state, or something is really wrong!  

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