Back when I use to design nuclear power plants, we would laugh at lunch about how we tried to make nuclear control systems "idot proof," but no matter what we did, mother nature would take our challenge and come up with a superior idiot! Sort of like reverse Darwinian selection.
I think that in the same spirit, California liberal Democratic voters have come up with a "superior" Gubinatorial Idiot! Over the years they have proven to politicians what works and what doesn't from a re-election perspective. Bighting the bullet to solve serious problems does not allow easy re-election. Davis is a product of the natural selection process of politics. As the cartoon documents that superior idiot (Gov Davis) has provided the state with quite a legacy!
Exactly. Gray Davis made decisions based on lowering his negative exposure to the voters. That's why he paid for ads during the summer using his re-elections campaign funds. The smart thing would have to have the rate payers take a larger, but shorter hit. But this would have been death for him politically. Because of this, we're stuck with a plan that is akin to paying the monthly minimum on a high interest credit card.