Gov. Pat Quinn delivered his budget speech last week, and it was another of those confounding efforts of his.

Quinn got favorable marks for concentrating a large portion of the speech on the need for pension reform and how pension costs are still taking up an ever-larger part of the budget, to the detriment of other programs.

Some lawmakers didn’t like that Quinn singled them out for failing to pass pension reform and left himself out of the blame game. But still, the focus of the speech was where it needed to be.