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To: Neeka who wrote (18602)	12/4/2003 11:32:25 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793903

So, MM, does that get Coulter out of your system for the week? :>) When you post, would you put a header that lets us know who or what is writing the article? Saves scrolling to the end before reading. I try to do it to save people time who are turned off by a source or writer. In this case, people immediately know that it's California Politics, and can skip it if they want to. California Insider A Weblog by Sacramento Bee Columnist Daniel Weintraub Radio Head Gov. Schwarzenegger was all over talk radio this morning, 8 a.m. in Los Angeles, 8:30 in Sacramento, 8:45 in Bakersfield, which will be the site of his next rally at noon on Thursday. Not much new. While the governor wanted to promote his fiscal recovery plan, the hosts on two of the three stations also asked him about the repeal of the illegal immigrant drivers’ license bill and the chance that he will negotiate a compromise measure to replace it next year. Their listeners clearly aren’t interested in middle ground, but Schwarzenegger said he committed to Sen. Gil Cedillo to talk next year about doing it “the right way” – in his view with security safeguards and insurance requirements. On the budget, Schwarzenegger also faced some skepticism from the right on his plan to borrow $15 billion, which he tried to deflect with a promise that the bond will be hitched to a new, “never again” spending limit. One risk Schwarzenegger takes by putting his prestige on the line so publicly so early is that he will fall in love with his proposal, that he won’t be able to walk away if the Democrats try to squeeze him too hard in the final hours of negotiations. He has already said that “failure is no option” – words that probably have Sen. Burton licking his chops. If Schwarzenegger defines the lack of a deal by Friday as failure, Burton has to be thinking that he can extract huge concessions in exchange for anything the governor can plausibly call a win. At some point Schwarzenegger will probably have to signal, privately, that he is willing to pull back if he doesn’t get the core proposals he is seeking. The real thing Democrats have to fear is not that he will unseat them next fall but that he will go over their heads with ballot measures that will be worse, from their perspective, than the compromises they have a chance to enact with him this week. If the deal doesn’t come together, part of the story will be “Schwarzenegger fails.” But the other part will be “Democrats block new governor’s recovery plan.” And Schwarzenegger could surely use that to rally the voters against the Legislature, which the public already holds in extremely low regard. sacbee.com