Arianna Huffington: The California Recall: Looking For The Silver Lining

[Jack Rabbit]

From AriannaOnline
Posted Wednesday July 9

The California Recall: Looking For The Silver Lining
By Arianna Huffington

Californians are used to earthquakes. Even stomach-flipping jolts of the ground beneath us are met with a shrug and a ho-hum yawn. Wait a few seconds, and they're over. Life goes back to normal.

But this one's different. It started slow, but it just won't go away. In fact, it has so rattled the political landscape in the Golden State that it has the state's political establishment running for the doorjambs and stocking up on bottled water and canned goods. It's swiftly dawning on them: this could be THE Big One.

I'm talking, of course, about the snowballing effort to oust Gov. Gray Davis in a special recall election. What just a few short weeks ago seemed like little more than a summer diversion for bored, angry and powerless California Republicans -- the political equivalent of a trashy novel enjoyed while baking on the beach -- is now looking like an inevitability.

All across the state, Democratic leaders are emitting a collective "Oh my god!" as they realize that Davis will now be forced to face the wrath of vengeful voters incensed over the state's $38 billion budget deficit -- which the GOP is blaming on Davis' fiscal irresponsibility while conveniently ignoring the orgy of fiscal irresponsibility being thrown by the White House and its congressional cohorts.

The Democratic establishment's response has been to circle the wagons and attack the recall effort as a right wing ploy. Which, of course, it is. There is no doubt that the campaign to remove Davis doesn't pass the sniff test.

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Arianna has presented better reasons to recall Governor Davis than do the movement's leaders. Nevertheless, I still don't think her reasons are good enough.

[davidinalameda]

1. as I keep saying

Davis needs to step down

he can take the high road on this and stop this maddness by stepping down

he can say that he's doing it for the best interests of the state--blah blah blah--and save face

[joeybee12]

2. Step Down? Honroable?

How is it honorable to step down because the Nazi Party in California is peeing all over the state's constitution? That's just nuts.

[realFedUp]

3. Why should he be bullied into stepping down?

Bush has not only lied to invade a weaker country, but
spent the surplus he received and put us into $6.3 trillion
dollars of debt, taken away civil liberties for many and
who is calling for his recall or impeachment on the right?

Arianna is a sideline flamethrower as much as I enjoy
reading her flames. She wants the chaos.