It's NOT a tumor.

As a California resident who thought that Arnold should step down after admitting his violence against women, I now have to take a pragmatic approach:

He's there so deal with it.

The first good news is the the former Pay-for-Play governor is no longer in power.

The second piece of good news is that the electorate showed a smidgen of common-sense by not replacing the governor with another shorter version, a Pay-for-Play politician whose main skills seemed to be sneering and "subtly" playing a race card.

That still leaves the Democratic Senate and Democratic legislature, who are easily as guilty as our ex-governor, but at least there's a certain amount of checking-and-balancing possible now.

There was certainly a better choice than Arnold available, but we'll see how this plays out.

And this really has no effect at the Federal level, so I can keep sniping at the Republicans who are screwing us in D.C. (One of whom, David Dreier, is Arnold's main handler.)

From a games theory point of view, I don't think Arnold will be so bad. If he doesn't create a perception that things are fixed, it seems likely that California will go democratic soon enough.

If he does, it might revive the moderate wing of the republican party.

Speaking of games theory, I've been wondering if those of the "the government that governs least governs best" persuasion shouldn't be in favor of every recall ever. The time, energy, and cost of the election might well be offset by the advantage of nothing getting done for weeks leading up to the election and the chaos of a change of government following it. A million signatures every 90 days and California will of necessity "govern least."

Down with everybody. :)

As a certified Gay man, I'm not unhappy with Arnie. Though I would have preferred him to have won in a general election rather than the Issa-initiated recall.

George Will has some harsh words for so called conservatives that supported Arnie. Me thinks he correct.