Not wanting to give the Republican governor any campaign fodder, Democrats have set aside the issues with the most potential for attracting popular enmity, such as granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants or legalizing same-sex marriages.
In effect, everything that would ordinarily be important has been put on hold until the power struggle is resolved, even the deficit-saturated state budget.
Good. That's why we elected Arnold - not with any great hope he could implement his own policies, but so he could at least stop the Democrats from running roughshod over California's middle class taxpayers.
4 posted on 08/15/2005 8:57:23 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves
("Feelings are not a tool of cognition, therefore they are not a criterion of morality." -- Ayn Rand)