Friday, March 15, 2002

Is Gray Davis Another Bill Clinton?

Is Gray Davis Another Bill Clinton?
No matter what you might think, the single greatest flaw in Bill Clinton's character was not his sexual appetite. It was his pathological self-absorption. Everything he did was for himself. There was nobody in the world who mattered but Bill. He started wars and conducted them with and eye to how editorial page writers and historians would record them. Absolutely everything that happened was to serve his glory.
California's governor Gray Davis seems to suffer the same malady. Remember the energy crisis? Remember the blackouts? That wasn't about you.That was about Gray Davis and how the whole affair reflects upon him.
He recently referred to last year's energy shortage as a war directly at him personally.
It was "a war," "worse than being in Vietnam."
And he was the winner. "I kept the lights on!" he declared.
Let's review his record. He stalled the construction of power plants, which forced California to buy power elsewhere. When wholesale the price of that power rose above the state regulated retail price, he refused to permit the state's electricity distributors to raise their prices, so they all went into bankruptcy. Because wholesalers could not trust California to pay its electricity bills, California had to buy power on the spot market, which is extremely expensive. This pushed up power costs, not just for Californian's, but for everybody.
Finally, Gray Davis signed a long term contract with wholesalers at the absolute highest price possible, forcing Californians to pay dearly for their power for many years to come.
Yep, he did one hell of a good job and if California reelects this clown, then they deserve more of the same.

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