I think he should resign, too. Really, there's no reason for him to try to save Kahleefornya. He tried and he deserves respect, but he can't do it alone.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
This confirms my 'poison pill' theory. Before the recall, I argued myself blue in the face that recalling Davis would be a disaster for the R's. Schwartznegger would be completely unable to govern CA, given the composition of the legislature, and given the cosa nostra of public employee unions that run the legislature. But any failures in CA would be blamed by the Old Media there on Schwartznegger. Responsibility for the state's problems would be diffused in the public's eye.
I give him credit for trying. He came closer than I thought he would. But without 75, the State is doomed. And 75 was never going to pass with the money the cosa nostra was going to spend.
Sadly, the only remaining strategy is twofold:
* We have to admit that California is completely lost for at least a generation. We also know that the dems cannot be given the steering wheel without crashing. So our strategy should be to make it unambiguous to even the stupid people that the Dems are driving (since they are anyway).
So let the dems have the state and crash it hard. It shouldn't take too long.
A public resignation by Schwartznegger, accompanied by a clear statement that the unions and dems have made the state ungovernable and its problems are unsolvable until Californians want to solve them would have the salutory effect of moving the R's to the backbench and clearly putting the blame where it belongs for the coming disaster in CA.
* Quarantine the rest of the country against the cancer that is there.