Well, well. Well. Senator Ample Arse plans to inject herself into the California recall election. Bad idea. The troubles in Paradise are far deeper than Gray Davis...the entire party is mired in special interest muck. Saving Davis's job isn't going to save the state or the Dem majority in '04. Will the Clinton razzle-dazzle work? Bill Clinton's past endorsements didn't offer much assistance in thwarting a recall. Californians know a pile of steaming horseshit when they see it.
Clinton praised Davis and California for being a model for the nation in setting progressive policies for America to follow.
“When you clear away all the ads and all the arguments and all the attacks, when all the dust settles, the facts remain: Since Gray Davis has been in office, education has improved, the economic policies of the state are better, you’ve done more for working families,” Clinton said.
Earth to Bill.
This recall isn't about the GOP "stealing another election" as DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe lamely complained....or a "GOP plot" as Davis whined on the Today Show. (Note: To the DNC: Please get over yourself and the 2000 election, we've moved on.)
The recall is about Davis totally bolloxing up his job by flushing a booming economy and a huge budget surplus down the drain. Dems are just as unhappy with Davis as GOPers and Indies. True to form, Davis ignored a serious heads-up last Sept. when a Field Poll reported:
In September, the last time the Field Poll surveyed voters on their attitudes toward the governor, 46 percent offered a negative appraisal.
Noting that a majority of voters from every political party now hold a dim view of the governor, Mark DiCamillo, the poll's director, called the results ``by far voters' worst assessment of Davis ever.''
Davis earned similarly poor marks for his job performance. With 65 percent of those surveyed saying they disapprove of his work in office, he has the worst job performance rating of any sitting governor in the 55 years the poll has been conducted.
A July 16th poll tolled Davis's political death knell:
The nonpartisan Field Research Corp. in *San Francisco found that 51 percent of likely voters said they would oust Davis and 43 percent would vote to keep him. Six percent were undecided.
*San Francisco, Liberal utopia, home of the loyal yellow dog, bastion of the Defenders of the Poor™.
Support for Davis's continued to erode as news leaked that Davis may not have been truthfull regarding the state's financial crisis during his re-election campaign. [No Sh*t Sherlock]
Davis has made one ham-fisted move after another.
"Offering no explanation for the move, Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Tuesday abruptly canceled a grand jury session exploring obstruction of justice allegations against the Davis administration in the Oracle Corp. software contract."
Then there's the budget...something for everyone to hate...pain for all. The Dems cannot wriggle out of the hot seat into which Davis and their own incompetence has delivered them with glib rhetoric or a Clinton charm fest.
We're pissed...if Senator Clinton wants to waste her political capital on a dead man walking, fine. Bring it.