Apparently, Some People "don't know exactly what they are doing"

by Lucas O'Connor [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

I have to run but there isn't a lot that needs to be added here.  I want you to start by taking these two quotes from today from the Governor

"Now even though I was criticized by Sen. Perata, who said, 'Boy, he should not mind our business. We know exactly what we are doing.' Well, obviously they don't know exactly what they are doing because otherwise we wouldn't have a $14 billion deficit. If everyone knows exactly what they are doing, we wouldn't have the budget mess in 2003 which created the recall election."

and

"Sometimes you see schools protesting out there or sending me letters," Schwarzenegger said. "I'm with them. I wish I could stand there protesting, too. Because we have to protest the budget system. Not this year's budget. The budget system is the failure. That is what has to be corrected as quickly as possible."

Now, try to pick just one direction to run with in those brief words.  Will you talk about the Governor throwing stones from his glass budgetary house?  Will you talk about how this is the perfect summation to your thesis on how the Governor talks like a moderate reformer but acts like a through-and-through (occasionally insane) fiscal conservative?  Will you talk about how productive it usually is when resolving disputes to point fingers and call people names?  Will you talk about the absurd, both-sides-of-the-mouth, 'I support education above everything except that it's the first to go' rhetoric?

Those are just a few conversation starters for you.  Reflect on them, offer your own, whatever.