How often have you heard the hard-liners of the ‘publican Party using their old mantra: Waste, Fraud, and Abuse?  Well, besides the tremendous amount of graft the ‘publicans have showed is possible up in DC by politicizing/monetizing everything up there, it is far less of an issue than they claim. But, they’ll tell ya that the deficit could be cured by a bunch of good ol’ fashioned investigations.

Never mind the California Performance Review that gave the state government pretty good marks, they still claim you can just clean the deficit out of the halls of government in Sacramento.  But, they don’t do a lot to, you know, actually clean up government.  

So, in walks that great reformer Asm. Sandre Swanson, who actually gets a bill through the Legislature to actually bring some of that sunshine into Sacramento.  Specifically, he passed a bill that would give greater protection to whistle blowers. Of course, the bill is threatened by Arnold’s blanket veto threat, so we’ll see what happens with it.