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Has anyone heard from or gal since last summer. She had developed quite a group of connected followers on Twitter and then vanished from the web. Any chance she went to work for a politico?

Once upon a time, they held out for a judgeship for their cousin. Now, they want constitutional amendments. As California's Legislature has grown more stridently partisan and its two-thirds approval requirement on budgets and tax-increase bills grows increasingly difficult to secure, the time-honored game of political logrolling has evolved to much higher stakes. And if the 2009 version is any indication, the new way is here to stay. "Logrolling" is a term of political art that refers to what is usually quietly conducted horse-trading among lawmakers: You back my agenda, I back yours. But as legislators have become entrenched in...

Quietly encouraged by the Schwarzenegger administration, a lot of pundits nevertheless have been pushing this idea of an Arnold Way for the Beltway. But conservatives - the ones who would actually have to change their course under the Arnold Way — aren't buying it. CNN's Bill Schneider "informed the GOP that the way to recover from midterm losses is to imitate Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and embrace liberal policies," the liberal-media hating News Busters concluded. My favorite response to the Whalen piece came from Weekly Standard reader Calcowgirl, who simply pointed to Schwarzenegger's deeds as proof he wasn't one of them....