German governors are doubleplusgood.

[angka]

Yes, I know he's Austrian, I'm making a point here.

Across the nation right now our political adversaries celebrate what they view as a tremendous victory. This Sunday, many millions of them will go to their church and get jesused up over it. It's much simpler for them—now that the line between the GOP party line and the average sermon has completely disappeared.

There is no question that this was a massive defeat for the Democratic Party. Virtually everybody campaigned with Davis, and fought desperately with him to fend this thing off. The fact that the puppet the GOP put up was a hugely famous, politically moderate bullethead made this quite difficult in a nation of people desperately trying not to take a side.

And our Democratic heroes fought this for good reasons, way beyond propping up the admittedly weak Gray Davis.

Have you read Greg Palast's recent article on this? Is everybody conversant on just what a goddamn swindle this is?

Here's the story Arnold doesn't want you to hear. The biggest single threat to Ken Lay and the electricity lords is a private lawsuit filed last year under California's unique Civil Code provision 17200, the "Unfair Business Practices Act." This litigation, heading to trial now in Los Angeles, would make the power companies return the $9 billion they filched from California electricity and gas customers...

So the Bush commissioners cook up a terrific scheme: charge the companies with conspiracy but offer them, behind closed doors, deals in which they have to pay only two cents on each dollar they filched.

Problem: the slap-on-the-wrist refunds won't sail if the Governor of California won't play along. Solution: Re-call the Governor.



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It's all a manufactured fait accompli, and it's going down right in front of our eyes like Wellstone's plane. While the right wing sings quasi-religious patriotic karaoke songs about it. God help us.

[angka]

1. hey i found a bright spot.

with 57% of precincts reporting, Larry Flynt has recived a highly respectable 8,332 votes. A big shout-out to all the trailer parks in San Bernardino County for that one. Yeah, baby.

[angka]

2. oh yeah.

My wife just pointed out that there's lots of trailer parks in Riverside, too. Yeah, boyee!

[even]

3. CA recall

You did it. Live With it.

[angka]

4. i've lived in colorado for twelve years

bite me. i'm not going to 'live with' any of it.

[angka]

5. nudge

just so we understand each other.