Passing the Buck

If the Sun is accurate, then the plan that will be debated during this week's Special Session of the General Assembly is Speaker Busch's plan, and calls for a 15-percent rate hike for 11 months, at which point the Public Service Commission (albeit, a new PSC appointed by the legislature) will decide on the need for a permanent rate-hike.

Busch's plan is so transparently political that it should not warrant serious consideration. It also means that Democratic legislators, much like they did seven years ago, and much like this year in their feeble attempts to blame Governor Ehrlich for this situation, will once again pass the buck onto another year. What the Democratic legislature is doing cannot under any rational reasoning be defined as leadership; just business as usual in Annapolis.