Well, that was a short-lived Celebration

by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Capitol Alert is pretty cool now that it's not behind a paywall. And today they delivered a little email telling me, right away, that the health care plan should now be referred to in the past tense.  From Senator Perata:

"I think it's DOA. I haven't found anybody yet that I have talked to that can make any sense out of it. It sounds ridiculous to say that we're going to have health care for everybody in four years, but in the meantime most people won't have health care because we have to cut the budget," Perata told KPIX.(CapAlert 12.18.07)

You can even watch the video here (comments around the 3 min mark.) So, well it looks like this plan will be another casualty of the growing budget deficit.  Now, let's see, how did we get into this mess. Ah, yes, the governator "Terminated" the "Car Tax" to show he was no "Girlie Man" on Taxes.  Well, now that he's boxed himself into a corner over his tax populism, where does he go now.  How does he impliment his agenda without spending money?

So, what's next?