Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was back on the road again Wednesday, posing with law enforcement officials and demanding that legislators pass his plan to protect local governments from the depredations of the state. That is, protect local governments once he finishes taking $2.6 billion from their coffers over the next two years. Given his own designs on city and county revenues, Schwarzenegger's hands are hardly clean on this issue. So perhaps he should ease the inflammatory rhetoric and get back to doing what he promised when he was elected: solving some of California's seemingly intractable problems. One of the biggest among...