Well, it looks like the recall is passing and Schwarzenegger is winning. The Republican leadership plotted and financed this recall, fanned by the flames of an energy crisis a Republican governor created, fueled by the anger at a car tax the same Republican governor left behind like a hand grenade, and now they’ve succeeded in stealing an office they couldn’t win (twice) in a legitimate election.

Un-fucking-believable. I’m embarrassed to be a Californian. That my fellow citizens can be so blind as to be manipulated into throwing out the guy they elected barely a year ago and replacing him with a puppet who has no plan, no experience, no qualifications and no class, is just flat out embarrassing. The electorate truly is a gang of mindless sheep who can be led by the nose.

The last time we put an actor into office out here, we wound up with the Republican party’s Great White Dope, Reagan, king of “Spend and spend” government. I hope we don’t see a repeat of that, because Zoe’s going to be busy enough already paying off Bush’s deficit when she grows up. I don’t think she’ll be able to afford another Reagan.

But I guess we’re getting the government we deserve. My only consolation is that I didn’t choose it.