Does Schwarzenegger Want a Budget This Year?

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Does Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger want the legislature to pass a budget this year? It sure doesn't seem like it judging by his foot-in-mouth disease of the past several days that's irking lawmakers of both parties.

On the heels of playing a week-long guessing game about the size of the state budget deficit, which chafed both Democrats and Republican legislators, Schwarzenegger tried to make a funny at a forum in LA by mocking legislators representing small communities.

"Some of them come from those little towns, you know what I am saying, they come from those little towns and they don't have that vision yet of an airport or of a highway that maybe has 10 lanes or of putting a highway on top of a highway," Schwarzenegger said. "They look at you and say, 'We don't have that in my town. What are you talking about?' So they are kind of shocked when you say certain things. So I like them to travel around."

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