A California budget -- or else

Catch us on most days and we'd say the last thing California needs is another cranky voter revolt that responds to our fouled-up state government by fouling it up even more. We've had quite enough of those, thank you very much. Supermajority requirements, term limits, tax caps, voter earmarks; mandates to spend at least this much on schools, at least that much on police. Each angry initiative strips our elected representatives of more power to ever do anything useful, and then we wonder why they can't get anything done.

January 9, 2009