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October 08, 2003
Well, That was Satisfying By Tom Smith I would settle for a news media that wasn't actively trying to deceive me. Fortunately, I'm old and jaded enough not to be fooled. Any doubts that I had that Arnie would win were driven away when I showed up at my polling place, and found it the most crowded I've seen in ten years, with a palpable determination in the air. My expectations for Conan are not terribly high. I'll be happy if he gets rid of the new car tax hikes (I really don't want to pay $500 to register my POS minivan--it bad enough to have to drive the thing!) and slaps a new tax on the casino gangs. (Disclosure-- a village of Jamul Indians is attempting to build a casino in my neighborhood, starting with six acres of land and about two dozen Native Americans, this after a tribal election in which the relatively full blood Indians who did not want a casino were thrown out, in a campaign that featured such novel events as arson, by Indians of fractional ancestry who want the casino. In the meantime, we are inundated with an ad campaign insinuating that gaming with put us in closer touch with the Great Spirit (come to think of it, a lot of praying does go on in casinos) and anyone who opposes a 100 acre gambling complex a couple of miles from the local high school is a racist. Stay tuned. Tax them, Arnie, tax them!) Mickey Kaus, gets the reasons to have voted against Davis just about right. Everyone expects a little log rolling in politics, but the truly prodigious levels of corruption in the Davis administration are a lot to swallow when you're talking about national security (the drivers' license give away) and when the California economy is gripped so badly by the European disease. Kaus is right. Arnie does seem to have character issues, but a lot of successful leaders have been cruel SOB's, and this one has a chance of being more honest than most. |