The Davis Syndrome

[peptoabysmal]

Arnold, will you please terminate this drone quickly?

Davis wields pen to aid Indian tribes (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/10/12/state2053EDT0076.DTL)

I think Gray Davis is determined to go down in history as the person who sank California long before the big earthquake.

[corplinx]

The sad thing is the spin machine going on where democrats are saying Davis was recalled because of Bush's policies.

The scary thing is, that is the exact sort of condescending attitude towards the voters that got Davis recalled.

The list of complaints against Gray Davis was long indeed even without the tech bubble burst and following recession. (Whose administration did it burst under by the way?)

Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton, and the rest of these people should be ashamed. I think this particular bit of "spin" is now bordering on the term "lie".

[subgenius]

Interesting analysis by that bleeding heart liberal George Will:

California's recall -- a riot of millionaires masquerading as a "revolt of the people" -- began with a rich conservative Republican congressman, who could think of no other way he might become governor, financing the gathering of the necessary signatures.

Now this exercise in "direct democracy" -- precisely what America's Founders devised institutions to prevent -- has ended with voters, full of self pity and indignation, removing an obviously incompetent governor. They have removed him from the office to which they re-elected him after he had made his incompetence obvious by making most of the decisions that brought the voters to a boil.

The odor of what some so-called conservatives were indispensable to producing will eventually arouse them from their swoons over Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then they can inventory the damage they have done by seizing an office that just 11 months ago they proved incapable of winning in a proper election under ideal conditions.

These Schwarzenegger conservatives -- now, there is an oxymoron for these times -- have embraced a man who is, politically, Hollywood's culture leavened by a few paragraphs of Milton Friedman. They have given spurious plausibility to a meretricious accusation that Democrats are using to poison American politics, the charge that Florida 2000 was part of a pattern of Republican power grabs outside the regular election process.

http://www.detnews.com/2003/editorial/0310/13/a09-295433.htm

[Grammatron]

Originally posted by subgenius
Interesting analysis by that bleeding heart liberal George Will:

California's recall -- a riot of millionaires masquerading as a "revolt of the people" -- began with a rich conservative Republican congressman, who could think of no other way he might become governor, financing the gathering of the necessary signatures.
http://www.detnews.com/2003/editorial/0310/13/a09-295433.htm

Comment/Question. I have heard -- from questionable sources -- that the recall was not started by "a rich conservative Republican congressman." Rather by a group of individuals who conduct recalls across California all the time. The only difference in this one was that they receive a large donation and support from "a rich conservative Republican congressman." Now my question/comment is where exactly does it say that "a rich conservative Republican congressman" started this recall?

[subgenius]

Direct your question to George Will. He's usually credible on his facts.