My plan was to wake up early this morning and drive to Connecticut to meet friends and enjoy some music, but my stomach is killing me. It’s something I ate, I guess. I’m still hoping to go, but the outlook is uncertain.
The Senate continues to be an unmitigated mess and California is drowning as a result.
Republican governors such as Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Jodi Rell of Connecticut have supported federal assistance to states to prevent thousands of teachers from losing their jobs because of budget shortages.
Schwarzenegger this month declared a fiscal emergency in California, ordering thousands of state employees to take furloughs to help close a nearly $20 billion budget shortfall.
The Republicans don’t care. Harry Reid will try again on Monday to get a vote on some money for the states. Maybe it will pass. Maybe it won’t.