Now it's 3700 caches next April (when G&V catch us). THAT won't happen.

When I was in Pittsburgh with my brother and sister last year, and when we were up in Seattle, they were laughing at us for recalling Gray Davis and electing Ahnold. Well, for the first time in years, Caleeforneeya's bond rating has gone up, and they aren't laughing any more.

So far so good. He stopped the car tax raise the day he was inaugurated, and fired the director of the DMV who somehow hadn't gotten the memo and wasn't prepared. It's amazing how a decapitation focuses everyone else's mind. The Governator jawboned a couple of initiatives in which made it possible to borrow to cover our debt with some budget cuts in them so this won't happen again. He now is actually working on a decent budget, which hurts everyone so there's a lot of whining, but it will probably pass. The Dems are cautiously terrified of him. After the initiatives the Gov. threatened the same approach to Workmen's Comp, and we actually have started to fix that very broken system.

He also stopped the illegal alien driver's license bill, but there are signs that he might be OK with it when it's brought back. He may need to be reminded that we brought him into this office, and we can take him out... however, I'm willing to wait and see.

This does NOT mean that I want the Constitution changed, however, so he could run for President. Can of worms, that.

How quickly we forget.

I hope Jeff is right.

Bill Whittle:

Here is my well-reasoned, historically researched, deeply nuanced opinion: Tough shit

it turns out that the United States military may have produced a few life-long professionals who actually hold victory more precious than crowing loud. Many of us value reason over emotion, and reality over wishful thinking. Well, we did not level Fallujah, and we did not do it because those bodies on that bridge were bait, pure and simple. We didn�t take the bait. Or, I should say, our military didn�t take the bait; I took it, hook line and sinker. I wanted to level the goddam city and then walk away and let them kill each other. Now, as Al Sadr�s support evaporates; as his militia thugs are being hunted and killed by shadowy Iraqi ghost armies and extremely corporeal Marines; as his fellow Mullahs condemn him; as Iraqi demonstrations against him and all that poison and ruin he represents continue to rise; as his headquarters are destroyed, his most vicious �soldiers� killed in their own backyards, playing defense in an urban environment by Marines whose skill and tactics stagger credulity for their expertise and success � now, we must ask ourselves: did you want to feel good or did you want to win?

I want to win. I was an idiot for taking that bait. And I thank God daily that America makes better, smarter people than me.

More:

Finally, consider this: Muslims are angrily at war with Buddhists in East Asia. Muslims are at enraged with Animists in Africa. Of course, none of this approaches the sheer hatred that Muslims bear towards Hindus in the South Asia peninsula. And this foaming hatred blanches compared to the white-hot fury Muslims feel to the Christian American Crusaders. And this fury is but a candle to the incandescent, boiling, supernova of murder they feel toward the Jews. Does anyone beside me detect a pattern here? You know, my Dad told me once, "Bill, if more than three people in your life are utter, total assholes, then maybe it�s you."

Finally, Sadr.