This is Maine Senate President Beth Edmonds, (D-Lalaland), discussing why Maine people need to give more to the state government, on WLOB's Fox Morning News. She wants to raise taxes and stop the talk of cuts to the budget.

Republicans need to wash these Dems out of Augusta with a firehouse this Fall. Edmonds' taxation crusade was reported in the Bangor Daily as well:

Maine Senate President Beth Edmonds, welcoming colleagues back to the State House as the 2008 legislative session opened Wednesday, warned lawmakers "there is a very hard winter ahead" and that in rebalancing the budget they must recognize "we have cut all the fat" already.
Edmonds, D-Freeport, stopped short of advocating a specific approach for coping with heightened financial pressures. But she said that after years of trimming spending and holding the line on taxes, lawmakers now must "keep everything available and on the table."

Edmonds and her delusional statements should play a key role in the Maine GOP's effort to pull this state back from the brink in November.