GET CHRISTIE LOVE!:

For New Jersey, no real alternatives to Gov. Chris Christie's 'tough love' (Michael P. Riccards, 3/17/10, The Star-Ledger)

Gov. Chris Christie’s budget for the coming fiscal year is balanced, and it does that the only way one can — with massive cuts in the areas that consume most of the state’s expenditures. Schools and municipalities have all been among the major recipients of state largesse year after year.

The budget still does not deal with the pension mess which the Hall Institute of Public Policy, among others, outlined several years ago. And as Congress debates endlessly on medical care reform, we and the rest of the states do not know what to do in meeting our Medicaid obligations to both the federal government and to the poor.

The GOP can't let the spending crisis go to waste.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 17, 2010 3:28 PM