Cyborg legacy
by digby
I was going to write about the Arnold and Maria soap opera but I just don't care enough to do it. And anyway, Kevin Drum has written the definitive post on the subject as far as I'm concerned and makes the most salient point I've seen all day:
His megawatt-smile denials were pure pap, and if knowledge of his affair had been public it's almost a dead certainty that the recall would have failed and Gray Davis would have remained governor. The car tax would have stayed in place, no bonds would have been issued to make up for it, and California's deficit problems would have been less than half as bad as they turned out to be under Schwarzenegger.
The Republicans, Darrel Issa in particular, brought that circus to town but you can't blame it all on them. Californians made utter imbeciles of themselves during that ridiculous campaign all because Gray Davis was "boring" and they wanted a totally kewl Movie Star to be the Governor. It was an American Idol election of the silliest variety and it had very serious consequences for this state. But hey -- it's not like we didn't deserve what we got.
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