Today's Fresh Meat

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

A grand bargain on health care reform is within reachif both sides are committed enough to take it, writes Daniel Weintraubin today's Sacramento Bee. The likely scenario is a bill that includesan individual mandate for coverage, restricts insurance companies frompre-screening and subsidizes care for the poor. A ballot measure in2008 would provide the funding.

Something funny is happening with rank and file members of the California GOP: they're actually more interested in winning elections than being "right," as indicated by this Los Angeles Times presidential blog entry. NewYork City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (above), whose multiple marriages andliberal views on abortion have raised eyebrows among conservatives,walked away with 63% at a straw poll among Monterey County Republicansthis weekend.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that minutesafter Governor Schwarzenegger derided California Republicans for beingthe party of "no," conservative Texas Gov. Rick Perry has these words tosay about California: "it's a sad, sad state of affaris when liberalscampaign like Republicans to get elected, and Republicans govern likeliberals to be loved." But isn't Perry the guy who was re-elected withabout 30% of the vote?

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