{"id":12189,"date":"2010-07-27T02:21:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T02:21:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-27T02:39:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T02:39:37","slug":"december-seems-about-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/27\/december-seems-about-right\/","title":{"rendered":"December Seems About Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Arnold is going around endorsing systemic failure<\/a>, it appears he has some extra time to wax poetic about how bad of a job he has done.  His legacy: abject failure.  And why not go out in a blaze of failure? Something to really show the history books a thing or two about failure.<\/p>\n

“If I don’t get what I need, I will not sign it and it could drag on to the next governor,” Schwarzenegger told reporters after meeting with the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce on Monday. (AP<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sure, why not? I mean, I enjoyed ArnoldBucks the first time around<\/a>, and if there is anything Arnold knows, it’s a good sequel. <\/p>\n

On a more serious note, a budget fight that trails into the winter will have some serious consequences. Once again, the credit rating agencies will start trashing our rating. We’ll be paying interest on a bunch of IOUs. A slew of state employees, contractors, and suppliers will take a massive cut, continuing the devastation in the California (and Sacramento especially) economy.<\/p>\n

On the plus side of the ledger, as MarkD pointed out in a comment, a protracted fight just might be the impetus that puts a majority vote budget measure across the line. Perhaps his little performance at the Chamber of Commerce will have some historical implications.<\/p>\n

UPDATE by Robert:<\/b> Steinberg calls his bluff<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“If the governor continues to insist on granting billions in corporate tax cuts financed by drastic cuts to public education and programs for working mothers and their children, I am prepared to grant his wish by waiting for the next governor,” Steinberg said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This doesn’t look like it’s going to end anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Arnold is going around endorsing systemic failure<\/a>, it appears he has some extra time to wax poetic about how bad of a job he has done.  His legacy: abject failure.  And why not go out in a blaze of failure? Something to really show the history books a thing or two about failure.<\/p>\n

“If I don’t get what I need, I will not sign it and it could drag on to the next governor,” Schwarzenegger told reporters after meeting with the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce on Monday. (AP<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sure, why not? I mean, I enjoyed ArnoldBucks the first time around<\/a>, and if there is anything Arnold knows, it’s a good sequel. <\/p>\n

On a more serious note, a budget fight that trails into the winter will have some serious consequences. Once again, the credit rating agencies will start trashing our rating. We’ll be paying interest on a bunch of IOUs. A slew of state employees, contractors, and suppliers will take a massive cut, continuing the devastation in the California (and Sacramento especially) economy.<\/p>\n

On the plus side of the ledger, as MarkD pointed out in a comment, a protracted fight just might be the impetus that puts a majority vote budget measure across the line. Perhaps his little performance at the Chamber of Commerce will have some historical implications.<\/p>\n

UPDATE by Robert:<\/b> Steinberg calls his bluff<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“If the governor continues to insist on granting billions in corporate tax cuts financed by drastic cuts to public education and programs for working mothers and their children, I am prepared to grant his wish by waiting for the next governor,” Steinberg said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This doesn’t look like it’s going to end anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-32","category-117"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3aB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}