RECALL DAVIS

James Joyner · Monday, July 28, 2003 · 2 Comments

While I’ve been skeptical of the whole Gray Davis recall, I’m coming around. Steven Taylor provides evidence that Davis is ruining the whole danged US economy.

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John Lemon says:

Monday, July 28, 2003 at 09:20

But don’t forget the problem is bigger then Gray Davis. The CA state legislature has a hand in dragging us all down too. We too often give too much credit (for good and bad) to the executive, albeit he (they) is (are) not blameless.

I evidence this with the recent strategizing by some Sacremento Dems to intentionally screw up the budget process for political points, all said whilst the capitol microphones were on. D’oh!

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James Joyner says:

Monday, July 28, 2003 at 09:25

Heh. Gotta love it.

I’ve been largely facetious. While Davis has made some boneheaded moves, I generally think the political leadership of the day has relatively little impact on the economy. I gave Clinton about 5% of the credit for the economy of the 1990s (for supporting free trade vigorously)and give Bush and the Congressional GOP about 5% of the blame for the current mess. State governments get maybe a little more credit/blame because of their more direct control over infrastructure.

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