The other night I dreamt of knives

[cyrano]

Must. Comment.
The head of the California Republican Party is live on Today right now, and has just cried and declaimed what an awful job Gray Davis has done; his first and primary complaint is that the state started with a $10m surplus and is now in a $39m deficit. And that, friends, is grounds for recalling a publically elected official. I wonder if anybody else falls under this criterium.....

There will be no commenting about the fact that, despite there being 320987432874 candidates on the ballot, only two people representing two parties (Well. One.) are allowed to comment.

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My mood has improved noticably since the installation of the car stereo.
I am now officially late for work.

Comments

[mallen.livejournal.com]

I think it's pretty fair to say that Gray Davis has done a rather shitty job as governor of this state. He's easily the most pandering politician in Sacramento in years -- probably not since railroads regularly bought politicians has someone been so inured to interest groups, especially labor unions like the prison guards (ahem, correction officers) who are getting fat payraises while education, health services and unemployment(!!) are getting the axe.

There's Davis' bungling of the power contracts, his utter refusal to grant ANYONE parole for any reason, even when the parole board recommends it.

If you couple Davis' inept management of the state with his blatant pandering to special interests (big labor, especially) and his cold-slimy personality you're going to end up with 22% approval ratings regardless of party affliation.

The man is unpopular, and it's not just Republican oriented voters who think that.

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

Pandering? Yes. Incompetent? Yes.

But are these qualities worthy of recall? Probably not. This state has withstood inept leadership before and will again. The power of recall should be a last resort, to get rid of actual (not perceived) criminals who are in office.

What the press and Darrell Issa have missed is that a heafty amount of blame for the deficit rests solely on the California Legislature who has actually written the budgets and passed the idiotic tax code. Shouldn't they all be recalled (or shot) too?

[mallen.livejournal.com]

I think you'll find that I'm on record as being against the recall. That being said, a lot of people are voicing dissatisfaction and there's a legitimate case for doing so.

Does the legislature share responsibility? Of course it does. But the governor sets the tone by proposing the budget. The governor approves the budget into law by signing it.

Does Davis *deserve* a recall? No, I don't think so. Does that matter? No, not really. A recall is occurring.

[spenceraloysius.livejournal.com]

Are you planning on visiting the polling booths on election day? Since the recall is happening, will you vote for it since Davis is a boob?

[mallen.livejournal.com]

Since we are having a recall election, I will definitely vote; I haven't fully decided how I'm going to vote.

I didn't vote for any gubernatorial candidate in the previous election. But since we're having a recall whether or not I personally like it, I have a bit of trouble voting in favor of keeping Davis in office.

It's also pretty safe to bet I wouldn't vote for Cruz Bustamonte. He's the prototypical California Democrat, the kind of unctuous career politician that shares the blame for our current disgusting mess.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Let me be the last person on the face of the earth to say Gray Davis is a good man or that he's done a good job. He's an unctuous and soulless being who is possibly even more pandering to special interest money than George W. Bush.

However, even given the shitty voter turn out at elections, even given his pegging the hate-o-meter polls before elections, a lot of people voted for him. I say it's because they're idiots.

However. My point was that the California Republican Party's spokesbeing has stated that the turn of the economy is worthy of a recall, and I'm very pleased by this because that means they'd support a recall of our Beloved President.

I can't wait. If they want to hire me to collect signatures, my email address is cyranoATnogDOTnet

[mallen.livejournal.com]

a lot of people voted for him. I say it's because they're idiots.

I say it's because of two factors:

1) The California GOP would rather piss and moan and whine about being out of power when it's patently obvious the ideologues acceptable to the party's hard right (and hence survive through a primary) will never ever get elected in centrist California. Only a slightly right of center Republican (there is a derisive term for such a person: RINO, Republican In Name Only) can really win in this state.

2) Davis' hachet men took out the only realistic GOP opposition in the last election: Riordan. The Bill Simon campaign was the most spectacular failure I've ever watched.

The axes are being sharpened for Ahhhnold, just like Riordan. In the next few weeks, we'll see the following memes about the Gubernator: 1) He has Nazi affliations, 2) He's a philanderer, and 3) He's run some shady business deals.

As far as specific comments of some GOP shill, well, I didn't hear 'em, but I think it's a pretty good case to throw someone out of office when they manage to turn a $10 billion surplus into a $38 billion deficit in just two years. Now /that's/ some spending for ya.

Bush is weak on this issue. It makes me wonder why Dean and his fellow Presidential hopefuls are foaming at the mouth about Niger and yellowcake instead.

(More on that at my right wing death beast blog.)

Gubernator

[spenceraloysius.livejournal.com]

bumblepudding came up with a similar name. He was using Governator. Hee!