Peter Schrag: In the budget battle,
will the winner be Norquist?, Sacramento Bee
As things are now going down, the most likely "resolution" of California's
budget standoff is a deal that would paper over the state's $38 billion
deficit with a combination of severe spending cuts and borrowing. Which
is to say that the state's no-new-taxes Republicans have won the battle,
if not the war.
Dan Walters: Voters' ambivalence gives
Davis hope of winning recall election, Sacramento
Bee
Polls indicate that voters are, at best, lukewarm about a pending recall
election, clearly concerned about the uncertainty of filling the governor's
chair with someone else, and about the cost of a special election.
Editorial: Recall, rescue, reward,
Sacramento Bee
The group spearheading the campaign to fight the recall against Gov.
Gray Davis calls itself Taxpayers Against the Governor's Recall. That's
one of those creative names that political operatives often use to disguise
their true identity.
Editorial: Budget games consume Capitol,
San Francisco Chronicle
Another day, another $20 million. That's the price California is paying
for the fawning indifference and frightening inability of elected lawmakers
to deal with the mounting budget crisis that is pushing the state to
the brink of bankruptcy.
Editorial: Shutdown looms,
San Diego Union-Tribune
Partisans must get a state budget done.
Opinion: Title IX decision right call despite dissenting howls,
Fresno Bee
Last week's action on Title IX by the president and his Department of Education is indisputable evidence politicians have been watching polls much more closely than they would ever comfortably admit.
