O'Malley was busy praising the deal earlier today and lambasting Tea Party members, but now he's saying the deal could hurt the Bay. The best part is O'Malley doesn't say a word about how Maryland's defense community will be hurt. Why? He's quit caring about Maryland and is entirely focused on his next national step.

TW: Actually, his praise was limited to the fact we avoided default. He was none too keen on the fact the debt reduction was to come only from cuts, not from any tax reform (aka revenue enhancements).

He did talk about the impact of sweeping federal spending cuts on Maryland's defense- and government-centric economy. I just focused here on his remarks about the bay because this blog is about the environment.

But here's more of what he said: He noted that the federal government “invests” heavily in defense, health and “the other things that protect us as Americans” in what he called the Chesapeake Crescent region including Virginia of Maryland.

"So if there are massive public sector cuts done in an irresponsible, across-the-board manner to public health, to the nation’s defense, to security efforts and those things," he said, "that’ll ripple through our economy, because those, too, are jobs. And there are moms and dads who work hard every single day to do the nation’s work and put food on their families’ tables.”

And here's one more passage: "Members of Congress, some of them like to pound their chests, look into the camera and say ‘cuts, cuts, cuts,’ But there are certain things that we can only do together, and protecting the environment, protecting our nation’s borders, protecting our homeland security, these are things we have a federal government to accomplish."

I hate the term "raising revenue." It implies something positive. It's just theft is all.

I love how O'Malley talks about protecting our borders. This from the guy who passed the most evil illegal alien education bill in the history of the state.

When we are all sitting at home with no money from massive inflation and impossible taxes, we are all going to want to drink the "poisoned water" to escape the nightmare. What a bunch of ridiculous fearmongering by the greenie-weanies.

I lived in a communist country overseas once. Communist governments did nothing (or very little) to protect the environment or prevent industrial pollution.
To those who ridicule environmental protection: you have no idea how bad things can get without an EPA keeping an eye on pollution.
I would return home from work overseas and discover the soot under my nose from the air pollution. It was a ritual to cough up black phlegm after a day walking in the city (or just waking up in the morning). The sulfer emissions from unregulated coal pollution were so bad, one had trouble seeing through the greenish yellow "fog" enveloping the city streets.
When the country changed over to democracy, the U.S. asked if it needed any immediate help. It did. It needed a new water treatment plant to replace the dysfunctional pre WWII plant serving the city. By building a new water plant, the U.S. would save thousands of lives a year. And we did.
One of the reasons communism failed was that it did not look out for the general environmental health of a country and its people.