GOP Assembly starts to crumble in Maryland

You can often count on the GOP to cut taxes, despite the financial circumstances, expensive wars and reckless spending on pet projects be damned. There's really no one to answer to since lately voters don't seem to be interested in the economics happening. Now that voters are upset with the shocking news of a 72% energy rate increases in Maryland and an election is just around the corner, Maryland GOP governor Ehrlich is struggling to hold his party together. Ehrlich and his thinning ranks of GOP supporters who are holding steady are much less sympathetic to higher payments by voters then they are to lower profits for the energy company.

Go figure...a Republican propping up higher profits for an energy company. The GOP wants to make the 2006 elections about local issues and it's an election for governor so Ehrlich is stuffed. He either flip flops and loses face with national GOP leaders (he has national ambitions) or he blatantly sides with Big Energy over the voters which is going to be a tough sale in the Democrat leaning state of Maryland.