by Julia Rosen [courtesy of Working Californians blogs]

Seriously man. I get that you really like your plan and that you wish the Republicans would come on. But it just isn't going to happen. You would have had a hard time getting them to play ball at the height of your influence with them, let alone now, when the level of cooperation is arguable at an all time low. I know that Speaker Nunez is bringing you the same message and it is the right one. SacBee:

But as Núñez notes, that's simply too many taxes and mandates for Republican legislators to accept, and the sooner Schwarzenegger acknowledges that reality, the better.

Nunez is still planning on bringing Arnold's plan up for a vote, where he predicts that he will be the only one voting for it, simply as a courtesy to the governor.

"I'm going to take him from the stratosphere, and I am going to ground him," Núñez told me in an interview in his Capitol office. "He needs a little grounding. Nobody likes his plan." [snip]

"I just want him to engage," Núñez said of Schwarzenegger. "Let's get it done. The governor has got the power to do it. He is either going to do it or not. If he doesn't do it, he's failed.

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by David Dayen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Seems like a great deal of things are happening on the health care front, but I don't think any of them point to significant reform in this legislative session.  In fact, people are trying to scramble for alternatives.

Dan Weintraub has a feature on Fabian Nu?ez' attempts to get through to the Governor that the other side of the aisle is simply not interested in compromise.  As Julia noted the other day, Nu?ez will put the Governor's plan up for a vote tomorrow, and nobody will vote for it.

The speaker says he intends to package the governor's plan as legislation and present it to the Assembly, where it will surely die. In fact, N??ez said, his own vote for the bill, which he will cast as a "courtesy," will likely be the only support the governor's plan receives.

"I'm going to take him from the stratosphere, and I am going to ground him," N??ez told me in an interview in his Capitol office. "He needs a little grounding. Nobody likes his plan."

I don't know how the Governor is going to respond to this, but clearly observers aren't thinking it will end in sweetness and light.  They're making other plans.  over...