Reply #45: Not one thing in that article

[torrentprime]

remotely explains why people might be willing to remove Davis from office. That article is a discussion of Republican efforts to take a governorship. Fine. But it doesn't BEGIN to address why this particular governor CAN be taken down.

The budget woes in Sacramento? What about those? Wasn't that a part of the recall? This article pretends not. Oh, wait, yes, Salon disposes of those effortlessly: <i> "But by the time Davis was up for reelection, the dot-com bust, the foundering national economy and California's disastrous experiment with energy deregulation had changed the state's economic outlook so dramatically that talk of the good times would have rung hollow."</i> Oh yes, it's the dotcom bust's fault. Not million dollar giveaways to the prison unions or an insane increase in spending, or a 36 billion dollar deficit hole that was hidden until after the election, right when Davis announced a quadrupling of the car tax to solve the financial mess that the Ds in Sac had gotten us into. It was the national economy and the dotcom bust that made them spend so much. Please.

No one forced them to give away billions and not save or prepare for the inevitable ending of the dotcom money. No one. They spent it like they had a right to, and someone had to get them out of the trouble they were in.

None of the above is spin--it's financial fact. "They" are not good enough to invent or create history, "they" cannot make the Ds choices in Sacramento anything other than what they are or were. That's political opportunity, not spin.