[Saundra Duffy]

His article was bait for people of your generally anti-Arnold position, and you fell for it.

Yep and I fell for the appointment of Willie Brown, too.

[Wolfstar]

Saundra, I fully understand your concerns that Arnold may not be as far to the Right and will reach out more to Dems than you and many of us would want, but it's also wise for us to keep things in perspective. Along with many, many others across the political spectrum, naming Willie Brown to the transition team was a courtesy. So far, nearly all of Arnold's actual appointments to policy positions have been from the Right side of the political spectrum.

Please keep one thing firmly in mind: Hard Left Dems have a stranglehold on the California legislature. In this state, we have quite possibly the only true, bona fide Marxist legislative majority ever in U.S. history. Even as a moderate Republican, Schwarzenegger is still far to the Right of that crowd, yet he somehow has to figure out a way to work with them. Until and unless the California electorate figures out just how bad the legislature is and throws the Marxist bums out, THERE IS NO CHOICE except to figure out some way to work with them.

Trust me, I absolutely hate this situation. But what I hope will happen is that the focus of folks such as you and I will shift to trying to elect better people to the state assembly and senate. The governorship is not the be-all and end-all of our state government.