Of course he had nothing to do with it!

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Democracy!

In a special election on May 19, voters rejected a batch of measures on increasing taxes, borrowing funds and reapportioning state money that were designed to close a multibillion-dollar budget gap. The cuts Mr. Schwarzenegger has proposed to make up the difference, if enacted by the Legislature, would turn California into a place that in some ways would be unrecognizable in modern America: poor children would have no health insurance, prisoners would be released by the thousands and state parks would be closed.

Sounds like GOP nirvana – except for the part about freeing prisoners.

Deep Cuts Threaten to Reshape California [NYT]

This video is making its way around the lefty blogosphere.  I made it to 47 seconds.  Good luck.

When America does a big-budget TV show, you get something like Lost, or maybe CSI. But when the Brits do one, you get this:

On the Sotomayor nomination: when did the GOP jump the shark?

1. When Liddy made the menstruation comment?

2. When Tancredo said that La Raza was like the KKK without sheets?

3. When Newt called her a racist and said she should withdraw?

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Remember before he did Monday Night Football, when he was sort of funny?

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The latest GOP theory about that Islamunofascistocommunisti-communityorganizersecretmuslim Obama:

Dealers on the closing list donated millions to Republicans, $200 for Obama

The initial pass at the list of shuttered dealers showed they had donated, in the aggregate, millions to Republican candidates and PACs and a total of $200 to Barack Obama.

GAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!111one!! He’s talking revenge on all those innocent Republican Chrysler dealers!

But, as always, there’s a problem with their theory:

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