"America has probably never seen a more cynical attempt at ethnic pandering than the California's new driver's license law. It's inconceivable that a governor would sign such a bill in today's environment, in which the Department of Homeland Security and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement labor around the clock to locate and remove people who have overstayed their visas or who never had any legal immigration status in the U.S. to begin with."

Except Governor Gumby, of course. He would sign it. And did. There's more at the link above -- the entire headline is a link.

As the recall election date gets closer - or possibly farther away depending upon what the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had for lunch this afternoon - the election hoorah gets slightly more rational. Not "rational" in an absolute sense; just more rational than heretofore. You remember that this started as the circus election. Our candidates for governor included the circus strongman, the exotic dancer [not gonna link this one; I could get excommunicated from St. Blog's. You'll have to find it yourself.] the dwarf, the 100 year old woman [I met Mathilda at the doctor's office the other day. She's at least as smart as Arnold and much less of a pill.] , and a host of others too numerous to mention. Really. There were 150 or so. Waaay too numerous to mention.

At any rate, we now have something resembling real candidates. And even one who would actually make a good governor.

All we need now is a court that will let us have an election. It could happen.