Wishful thinking, or hard to tell lately?

In private, conservatives are absoluting loving Comptroller Peter Franchot right now, so you can't really blame Washington Times reporter Tom LoBianco for this.

From this morning's story on Gov. Martin O'Malley's rockiest period in office yet (which is still not so bad):

Shortly after a poll last month showed 37 percent of voters approve of his job performance, Mr. O'Malley revoked his support of the unpopular computer-services tax, passed in the special session.

He joined Comptroller Peter Franchot, a Republican, and hundreds of small-business owners in pushing to repeal the tax, but proposed replacing it with a temporary "millionaire's tax."