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Yeah, Issa thought he'd be the big man on the totem poll by paying for the recall.

He tried to play "behind the scenes" and that bit him in the buttocks. If he couldn't see McClintock and Arnold jumping in, then I'm surprised the man made so much money.

But the "I hate McClintock" moderates that truly drink the "any R is good" koolaid are going to be horribly disappointed.

Does anyone really believe that Arnold as governor is going to do ANYTHING to help the GOP in California? More koolaid.

He will not cut spending, not even in the sense of lowering the projected increase which idiots in government and the press call a "cut". He will not go back to the period before massive baseline increases that are based on ridiculous revenue projections (revenue projections that, if done by some corporate CEO like Kenneth Lay at Enron, would be considered a crime by the same worthless, spinless, worms in Congress if those projections boosted Enron's stock price that they themselves were cut in on with in sweetheart deals like Terry McAuliffe and WorldCom) and roll back to those levels. No politician of any party does.

Agreed. Did Issa really believe he'd get to be governor by default simply because he funded this thing? Or become a kingmaker? And he didn't even anticipate that other candidates would run in the recall replacement election? Pathetic.

Now like a petulant little baby, he wants to pick up his marbles and go home.

What's really killing us are all the attempts to "game" this recall via polling. The polling has been all over the place. 32% undecided on the replacement race in most polls. 32% undecided with two weeks to go!

Arnold will be cutting spending and is coming out with a budget proposal soon... I thought we would see it just prior to the debate.

John Cogan is Arnold's top fiscal advisor, and it is John Cogan that is advising Arnold about budget cuts and taxes... The very John Cogan that structured Bush's tax cut proposals in 2000.

"In the Schwarzenegger campaign, his profile is lower than former Treasury Secretary George Shultz, his colleague at Stanford's Hoover Institution. But Cogan has drawn the critical job of overseeing the budget planning process and turning the candidate's anti-tax pledge into real policy."

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