Dan Weintrab at California Insider has read through the "spending limit" portion of the CA "budget-balancing" ballot questions and is unimpressed. According to this excerpt from the OC Register, via PrestoPundit, Republican lawmakers are aghast. And no, it doesn't seem to be a matter of the Hard Right not liking any compromise -- the actual proposal has utterly no enforceable content. It's cosmetic.
Given this, Arnold's promise to revisit the "rights" of illegal aliens, and his non-reaction to a court's quashing of the 600,000 signatures collected to put the "employer-paid health care mandate" up for referendum (i.e. voter veto), I'm not impressed with the new Governator so far.
The Party jumped on Arnold's bandwagon because he seemed the only Republican who could win, but we seem to have made a false assumption. McClintock is looking better again.
UPDATE: See So Cal Law Blog for a roundup of other reaction.
It's not like me to say I told you so. I'll leave that to the Clam.
Posted by: Patterico at December 14, 2003 01:22 AMHey. See here and here. Unfortunately, by the time the election came around, after the Party had circled the wagons, it was Arnold or Bustamante, so I pulled the the level for Arnold.
Posted by: Kevin Murphy at December 14, 2003 01:36 AMI remember!
Hey -- I said I wasn't gonna say I told you so!
But I see the Clam already did.
Posted by: Patterico at December 14, 2003 02:11 AM