California is done. Schwarzenneger might as well hand over the keys of the State Treasury to the Public Employee Unions.
When running for office, Schwarzenneger said he would work with the Legislature to reform the system. The Democrats promptly showed him that no one could work with the Democrats in the Legislature. And many Republicans called him a RINO and vilified him for even trying.
The Democrats and Unions were acting true-to-form throughout the elections. My disgust is reserved for the so-called conservatives that wouldn't support the Reform measures because of their dislike for the Governor.
Arnold is through. He certainly won't be re-elected. There won't be any meaninful reforms until California goes bankrupt. And the people that called him a RINO will not be happy with his replacement. Sorry folks, we don't get another Reagan (unless it's Ron Jr.) After supporting the Governor's reforms, McClintock is even more damaged, and he'll never win in Blue-State California. No, what we'll get is a meathead or some other Gray Davis clone.
And if we continue eating our own, we'll see Bill and Hillary back in the White House. Oh, Joy Unbounded!
/Rant
Wrong. Schwarzenegger was villified for being so gullible and naive to think that his star power and willingness to compromise on loads of key issues would curry him any favor in the Democrat's camp. That wasn't a plan; it was assisted suicide.
I hope you are not referring to freepers who opposed some of the reform measures based on their content, while strongly supporting others. They were not all the same.
Ranting can be quite good for one's health, or so I hear. ;-)
Tom is no more damaged than he was when he ran in the REcall.
Just think of what a 13% solution would have meant to all of us. but I know, he was irrelevant and unelectable, yaknow. That's what the FR "experts" said .
The Gub can win again, the Rats will devour themselves and how can they keepp coming up with more money at this point, we still have the June '06 election to go thru,.