[ScottinSacto]

Lots of posters here keep displaying their disgust at the possibility of a GOP governor in the midst of this mess. Folks, if we don't get someone with a blue pencil and the willingness to use it, it will end up dragging the entire US economy down. We are taking it in the shorts out here with hundreds of new taxes and fees proposed...and not just little ones like an extra $2 to use the park or lake facility. They are aiming at Prop 13 and getting around it to hike property taxes. And there is even a bill for a local municipal income tax. How bad is bad enough for you folks? Yes, I agree they made the mess and should have to swim in it, but if the possibility of someone with an ounce of real vision and leadership taking over the helm, I believe that serves as just a vivid example of how wrong things are as would be the example of thousands of gainfully employed people having to sell their homes due to the inability to pay the higher property taxes and city income taxes. Do you really need the National Guard to come in and take over the bankrupt State Government to make your point? Gov Davis' approval rating is almost dropped into the teens....I think people get it and are tired of it. If a Republican comes in and takes over, almost anything they do will be better than what we have now...and can run on that record in 2006...while asking folks if they really want to go back to the days and policies of Davis as would happen with a Lockyer/Angelides governorship. Sorry for the rant and it is not personal ServesURight, but there are opportunities that are being overlooked in light of this terrible situation out here.

[anoldafvet]

You're absolutely right and what makes it worse is that if by some miracle all the tax hikes work, the RATS now have a model for the other 49 states. In case anyone forgets, the RATS keep saying that the successes of the '90"s were due to Clinton's tax hikes, when in reality they were in spite of them.

[AdamSelene235]

. Do you really need the National Guard to come in and take over the bankrupt State Government to make your point?

I was kinda hoping for a year long state-wide Rodney King style riot followed by finale that combines the worst features of the destruction of Sodom and the book of Revelation.

Not that I didn't enjoy my stay there.