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"Too bad you didn't get this before the recall election. It's going to get worse and it didn't have to happen."

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NO, it didn't need to happen. We could have continued with Gray Davis or gotten Bustamante. What a pity, what wonderful place California would be now if either of them would be governor today. (/sarcasm)

NO, it didn't need to happen. We could have continued with Gray Davis or gotten Bustamante.

That again? Gad, you're just as bad as Arnold, but it is fun to discredit you again, so thanks for the opportunity to post the facts, again.

Despite having the second lowest Republican registration of any senate Republican seat up for election this year, McClintock's campaign ran more than 19 points ahead of party registration - the largest margin of any senate Republican:

Candidate Party Votes Percent
* Tom McClintock Republican 226,225 61.0%
Paul Joseph Graber Democratic 144,800 39.0%

Here is the last poll before the recall by USA Today/CNN/GALLUP.

"If the choice were between Cruz Bustamante, the Democrat and Tom McClintock, the Republican, who would you be more likely to vote for: Cruz Bustamante or Tom McClintock?"

September 25-27
Registered Voters

McClintock 49%
Bustamante 42%

Probable Voters

McClintock 56%
Bustamante 37%

There is no way Bustamante would have won in any race where voters had selected their preferences, as opposed to "he can win." When you grow up enough to face your accounability for abetting this mess, maybe you'll understand Arnold's actions a little better. It's not like you weren't warned.

Well, this is purely symbolic, as was the Davis measure explicitly.

Arnold may be a believer, but politically, the only reason to say this is because you think constituents want you to.

The upshot may provide symbolism in another way - in that it may provide an illustration that these CO2 emissions reductions plans are simply painful and ludicrous.

When real economic pain sets in and the reductions never materialize (as will likely occur), it will defuse this issue somewhat nationally, and marginalize its supporters.

California may as well be the proving ground, and the rad libs there may as well be the ones to bear the burden of futility.

The only honest response from a true believer, who would probably insist that we need to eliminate non-natural CO2 entirely (in order to neutralize climate effects), would be a proposal to ban sutomotive transport and industry worldwide. Because that's the only target which would sastify the arguments of the alarmists (not that they would personally ever be satisfied).

The only honest answer is renovating the global infrastructure to acommodate some nonfossil power and/or total global economic meltdown. I am sure there would be major repercussions on ecosystems, etc. if were to witness the latter. The only current answer to the former is nuke power, and lots of it.

The Euros have already gone through this, with many unable to meet even modest emissions goals. Once that happens domestically, there may some more sanity and reality brought into the discussion.