Blackouts Roll Over Arnold

Before he left office in 1999, former Governor Pete Wilson (seen here taking a break from demonizing Latinos) left the big steaming pile we call energy deregulation on California's lawn. The plan's full effect was felt by poor Governor Gray Davis when high prices and rolling blackouts plagued the state.

Our new pseudo-Governor Schwarzenegger fueled his bloodless coup partly with outrage over Davis' handling of the situation, and in spite of the fact the energy crisis was driven by Wilson's law and the Cheney Administration's refusal to stop out of state price gouging, the public bought it.

Times change and unqualified actors steal the Governor's office, but energy deregulation is still rotting out on our lawn. Arnold's floundering administration got hit with its first wave of rolling blackouts yesterday. Temperatures soared in the afternoon and half a million Southern Californians were briefly without power. Lets hope most of them were Arnold voters.