The Times Union provides an editorial that looks closely at the “transparent, self-serving nonsense,” and the “abdication of responsibility” by the Legislature in the current budget process.

“If you don’t like this editorial, don’t blame us. After all, if the Legislature can pass a budget while disavowing what it votes on, why can’t we all be off the hook for our actions?

That seems to be how lawmakers would like to go about getting one of the admittedly toughest budgets in recent memory done. Pass it, one piece at a time, while professing to be utterly opposed but backed into a corner by Governor Paterson.

There are signals, to be sure, that the Legislature and governor are moving closer to a budget deal. But it could take the better part of this month to finalize. Plenty of time, then, to pass much of the budget piecemeal and on the fly, and blame the governor each step of the way.

What transparent, self-serving nonsense. What an abdication of responsibility.”

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