O?Malley back to basics

Gov. Martin O?Malley went back to basics again last week, reviving Constellation Energy as the punching bag it was during his 2006 campaign. The previous week, he reprised his city crime-fighting crusade.

In the mind of the public being socked with mammoth electric bills, Constellation is almost as attractive a target as street thugs. So when it begins suing for even more money on the same day as it announces whopping earnings, it almost put a sign on that says “punch me.” “Outrageous,” “appalling” and “stunning” was the unusually strong rhetoric O?Malley unleashed.