Where's Schwarzenegger's Budget Reform Plan?

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Instead of working to balance the budget with lawmakers, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been bellowing carbon from his private jet with trips up and down the state to editorial boards in Republican outposts. He skirts talk of the budget deficit he created with billions in tax cuts from the repeal of the vehicle license fee. Instead, he focuses on an executive power grab he calls "budget reform."

But where's the details of his proposal?

Four months after rolling the proposal -- a re-do of the one voters solidly rejected in 2005 -- Schwarzenegger has failed to produce the legislation for review. No lawmaker has introduced the proposal on his behalf (not even a Republican), even as a courtesy.

Sound familiar? It should.

Schwarzenegger went nearly nine months before putting his health care proposal into bill form. And when he finally did, he couldn't find a single author or vote for it.

Arnold's budget reform notion -- which will have no effect on this year's budget -- is nothing more than that. Perhaps he should focus on the problem at hand, take ownership of it, and then show some leadership. The "don't blame me" act he's putting on isn't working, particularly among legislators.