Save Some Space on Mt. Rushmore

According to an April 12th report run on KCRA Channel 3, the Governor has scrapped another reform. This time the administration is dropping a controversial program dealing with convict diversion.

In addition, the report highlighted other failures of the Governor’s Administration, including his dropping of the plan to eliminate dozens of state boards and commissions and his retreat on the pension fight.

Finally the report ended with some major league spin from one of the Governor’s biggest supporters (NO - it wasn’t Tom Arnold):

“But far from political defeats, the governor's supporters say the decisions are simply tactical, temporary retreats and the sign of a good leader.

“‘If you look at every great leader, you look at Roosevelt, you look at Lincoln, you look at Washington. Theirs wasn't a straight line,’ said Republican Party Chairman Duff Sundheim.” (KCRA-3 NBC, April 12, 2005)

What? No Jefferson?

We’re not sure breaking your word to parents and teachers and attacking nurses, firefighters and cops as “special interests” rises to the level of our national fathers up on Mount Rushmore, but we’ll leave it up to history to be the judge…