Watchdog.org Podcast

This is At the Races, Watchdog.org’s podcast that focuses on elections and political campaigns. In this episode, hosts Eric Boehm and Ben Yount take a look at two of the worst candidates in the ever-growing presidential field: U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, and Martin O'Malley, the former Democratic governor of Maryland. First up: a game called "Real quote from Lindsey Graham or passage from dystopian fiction?"  In this game, Yount has to decide if a Constitution-shredding, anti-free-speech, pro-militarism comment is something that actually was uttered by the senator from South Carolina or whether it comes from the pages of books like 1984 and V for Vendetta. Then, we take a look at the five most insane tax increases supported by O'Malley.  From the rain tax to the toilet tax, there were plenty to choose from - Maryland increased taxes on 44 separate occasions during the eight years that O'Malley was running the state.