Gov. Martin O’Malley on Chris Christie: ‘Mean-Spirited, Unproductive Stand-Up Routine’

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is using his post as chairman of the Democratic Governors Association to offer a Democratic alternative to the aggressive brand of politics being espoused by a new crop of Republican governors, who are taking on public-sector unions and enacting deep cuts in efforts to balance state budgets.

On ABC’s “Top Line” today, O’Malley blasted perhaps the highest-profile such governor, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and suggested that Democrats will take back the Garden State’s governor’s mansion when Christie is up for reelection in 2013.

“People are getting kind of tired of his mean-spirited, unproductive manner of governing his state. And that’ll be up to the people of New Jersey in a couple years time,” said O’Malley, D-Md.

“But the mean-spiritedness -- the sort of standup routine that Chris Christie brings to the national debate -- is something that garners headlines much easier than the tough decisions. But the right decisions being made by people like Andrew Cuomo and other governors that are balancing, but also making the modern investments that a modern economy requires.”

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/05/gov-martin-omalley-on-chris-christie-mean-spirited-unproductive-stand-up-routine.html

although I'm no fan of Cuomo's "balanced" approach either.