California Economic Crisis

What's been playing out in California could be the stubborn last gasp of the "Republican Revolution." What began in California might have to end in California.

Schwarzenegger and his horde of retrograde Republican lawmakers got everything they wanted in a horrific bargain with Democratic leaders that has ended California's budget impasse.

Schwarzenegger's heartlessness towards the state's most vulnerable citizens in a time of economic collapse renders absurd the Republicans' attempts to paint their party as "kinder and gentler" or "compassionate."

The California budget crisis continues to be a showdown between a recalcitrant Executive and a weak-kneed Legislature.

Thanks to an economic crisis his good friend George W. Bush gave us, Schwarzenegger is launching a frontal assault against virtually all of the state's public sector institutions.