O'Malley Budget Punts To General Assembly

When you start pulling the O'Malley administration's budget apart, it's like eating cotton candy: There's far less there than anticipated.
 
This budget doesn't live up to its advanced billing. There's nothing Draconian about it. Martin O'Malley is keeping spending a bit above current levels, just as he's done in the recent past.
 
There's no attempt to downsize government or make state agencies more efficient and less cumbersome.
Voters across the nation may be screaming for bad-tasting budget medicine, but in Maryland the governor continues to dispense sugar pills.
 
His blueprint maintains the status quo. It represents a brief pause in the upward climb of social spending in Annapolis.
 
O'Malley didn't even follow the lead of the president he's trying to impress, Barack Obama, who on Tuesday announced a five-year freeze of most federal domestic programs.

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