[goldstategop]

Budget schadenfreude is such sweet sorrow. Learn to love the $14 billion deficit in California. It has killed off Red Arnold's Big Government agenda. Hallelujah!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[ModelBreaker]

But work on Schwarzenegger's agenda may be overshadowed next year by his failure to resolve the issue that helped bring him into office four years ago in a historic recall election – a chronic budget deficit.

I hate to say "I told 'em so." But I did. Recalling Davis and electing AS was a HUGE mistake for the R's. The budget deficit is the result of a socialist assembly and Senate. It will never go away until the socialists no longer control the assembly and the Senate.

But note in the article who is being blamed. The Republican governor has "failed" to resolve an issue that is unresolvable, given the choices the voters of CA have made for their representatives.

Responsibility for this problem was squarely on the D's until AS was elected governor. Now it's the R's fault. CA voters will never throw out the scoundrels in the legislature until blame is squarely fixed where it belongs.

[RightWhale]

All these budget articles should be grouped together on one thread.

[coloradan]

Not to worry, the mandate for 20% of the State’s electricity needs to be supplied by renewable sources is sure to take the sting out of any temporary budget shortfall.

[Lancey Howard]

“I have heard numbers floating around. Somebody said $13 billion, $14 billion, $15 billion,” said Mike Genest, Schwarzenegger's finance director. “Maybe they were guessing; I don't know. I'm only the governor's friggin finance director.”