Gray Davis and the vast right-wing conspiracy (The left is at it again...BARF till you drop)

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Gray Davis and the vast right-wing conspiracy

The effort to recall California's Democratic governor shows again that the GOP will stop at nothing to win more power.

- - - - - - - - - - - - By Tim Grieve

June 21, 2003 | Darrell Issa is a second-term Republican congressman from Southern California. He's as conservative as they come -- pro-business and anti-abortion, supports prayer in school, opposes affirmative action, never met a tax cut or an oil well he didn't like. In socially liberal California, he's got exactly no chance of ever winning statewide office.

And yet, he just might be the state's next governor.

California Gov. Gray Davis was reelected just seven months ago. Although you'd be hard-pressed to find a single Californian who actually likes Davis, he was able to win reelection because the Republicans fielded a neophyte challenger -- bumbling businessman Bill Simon -- who was as clueless as Davis was conniving.

But for Republicans in George W. Bush's America, defeat is not an option. If the vote in Florida might go against you, make them stop counting the ballots. If the Senate Democrats won't confirm your most extreme judicial nominees, change the rules so they can't filibuster anymore. If Texas Democrats won't show up to vote on your crudely partisan redistricting plan, tell the federal Homeland Security forces to hunt 'em down and bring 'em in.

And if you can't win a regular election against the Democratic governor of California, just wait a few months and then demand the right to try again.

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Ahhh Tim Grieve.... there'll be a lot for the Democrats to grieve about later this year. I think right now there's in the famous first phase of Elisabeth Kubler's stages of dying. There's more to follow.