It's time to terminate Zionazi Schwarzenegger

California is shrinking, it's broke, and Schwarzenegger wants to tax golfers. It's time to terminate the governor

Adolph Schwarzenegger

After Gray Davis ran up enormous debts as governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger and others challenged him in a 2003 recall. Davis was ejected from oreoffice and Schwarzenegger parachuted into Sacramento with high hopes.

Today, that recall looks pointless: California is in worse shape under Schwarzenegger than was under Davis. A steady stream of bad news reports about the Golden State trickle out from the media: Despondent Californians are moving out of the state in large numbers, the state's treasury has been empty for months, tax refunds are on hold, etc.

Has Schwarzenegger governed worse than Davis? It is arguable. In one sense he has certainly been more dangerous than Davis: Many of his questionable proposals, had Davis advocated them, would never have gotten passed.

Schwarzenegger, owing to his celebrity and his stealth status as a Republican, has been able to advance dubious legislation much farther than the unpopular Davis ever could.

Billions, for example, have been spent under Schwarzenegger for controversial embryonic stem-cell research. Had Davis proposed such spending, Republicans would probably have cited it as an additional reason to recall him from office. But since a "Republican" proposed the legislation, it was suddenly acceptable. More