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This is is a classic con game, as someone else (maybe Calpundit) pointed out recently. Schwarzenegger hasn't laid out any reasonable plan, but that's ok with Weintraub because he thinks he's in on the con. He thinks he knows the white house will bail Arnie out. As you rightly point out, Congress is unlikely to go along, even if the WH wanted to (and why would they?). Not only will DeLay not give money to CA, but it would open the door, set a precedent and so on for all the other governors who can't balance their budgets, and all of the states (regardless of party affiliation of their governor) are having this problem.

Weintraub's conduct during these last stages of the recall campaign have been really pretty shocking. He purports to maintain a certain neutral though conservative punditry. In fact, he has been one of Arnold's biggest boosters.

The budget situation could be much much worse than we think. One state court has already invalidated a $2 billion bond deal to cover shortfalls in payments to pension funds. Another lawsuit, filed a little later, challenges the borrowing to cover the shortfall in the general fund on the same theory. So, instead of needing to find $ 2 billion in new money, the next session of the legislature could need to find more than $ 22 billion. The lawsuits were brought by the Howard Jarvis Foundation, which is very familiar with the arcane practices of California budgeting.

Weintraub's dream bailout, in order to deliver California to the Repubs in '04, just got a little more pricey.

I can't wait for the Tribes, which are solidly democratic in recent years, to voluntarily pay an extra billion in taxes.

What's the name of that strong anti-psychotic drug? Lithium?

LOL. Yeah, Weintraub has been a joke on the recall. He certainly knows any Governor has no ability to get the Tribes to pay $1B more in taxes. And then there's this alleged $1B in waste that's hanging around in state government that nobody will identify. Weintraub's just dreaming. or delusional, as you say.

Isn't Bechtel Headquartered in San Fran?

I bet something can be arranged.

Good one Skip. Not a single useful comment in that, just a bunch of blathering BS. Excellent. Nice troll. Do you think Delay will be interested in providing $5 billion to California?

If Weintraub really believes what he wrote give me 2 of whatever he's having!

Teach, I think you are being a little hard on Weintraub today. Actually, Weintraub's Bee column acknowledged that Bustamante comes closer than anyone else to putting his cards on the table -- but also itemized the gaps in Bustamente's plan. He also merrily pointed out that McClintock assumes a "savings" from the park budget bigger than the budget itself -- just the sort of detail I should think you would enjoy. Re the arithmetic of a Fed bailout, I thought Weintraub's own numbers alone made your point -- i.e., that pigs will fly before it happens.

Skip you have just bought yourself troll-hood with your vitriolic personal attacks on first the owner of the weblog, and second on someone pointing this out. My advice is to take your neanderthalic mind set and go to a site where such behavior is appreciated, say FreeRepublic.com. Whatever ridiculous personal insults you might have will only serve to lessen the cause you claim to advance here. Please save this sort of behavior for locker rooms and toilet stalls.

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