Again, the Democrats who are complaining about the cost only seem to bitch when somebody's spending money on something they don't like. I hear three recall attempts were made against Ronald Reagan when he was governor, and I suspect the Democrats wouldn't have complained about the costs had the petition drives succeeded.

Go through the California budget sometime and see the kind of stuff we routinely spend $60 million on. California spends more than that each year on the California Conservation Corps.

Getting Davis out will still be worth it, although Bustamente wouldn't be much of an improvement. Recall advocates apparently failed to realize that the Democratic Party in California has a nearly unlimited supply of assholes, and so didn't consider that one would pop up to take Davis's place like a new Hydra head. Oh, well.

And hey, maybe Arnold will pull it off.