A reader writes:
I certainly hope you don’t have a favorable impression of Schwarzenegger as governor. He’s going to go down as one of the biggest political failures in the state’s history. He’s little more than a press release and a disappearing act. In his time as governor he has accomplished two things: reducing the car tax and reforming our workers compensation system. He just negated the first in the disastrous budget he will sign tomorrow. The workers comp reforms are real and lasting. And he did (fnally) manage to get the voters to pass redistricting, which will also have some long-term effects on the state, though I doubt they’ll be as "fantastic" (his favorite word) as he believes.
Other than that he has further hardened the divide between democrats and republicans (rather than transcending it, which was my hope), has alienated the voters with his bluster and innate confusion, and will leave the state worse when he finally ends his term. I can only hope Obama is smart enough to avoid inflicting him on the rest of the country.
The Dish 