ANNAPOLIS, Md. - After a wildly surprising budget meltdown this week in Maryland's Legislature, Gov. Martin O'Malley said Thursday he accepts some responsibility for the failure to replace $512 million in spending cuts with a package including tax hikes and alternate savings, and he expressed uncertainty about when _ or even if _ he would call a special session to try again.
The Democratic governor also made the painful admission that the state's vastly outnumbered Republicans have prevailed by default so far in this year's budget debate due to a lack of Democratic leadership, including his own. The Maryland Senate has 35 Democrats and 12 Republicans. The House of Delegates has 98 Democrats and 43 Republicans.
"Well, we managed to do something to ourselves that the Republican caucus couldn't do to us in five or six years," O'Malley, who is in his second term, said on WAMU's "Kojo Nnamdi Show," which was hosted by Matt McCleskey.
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the dems have done us in so to speak and we need to do what we can to replace theses numbskulls.
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