Not Everyone Is Surprised by State Budget Mess
"Today we set in motion events that will require far more difficult and painful decisions starting just five months from now in what is likely to be a much worse economy. I am afraid that with this vote, for the second time in a decade, this state is being driven to another Gray Davis-sized fiscal crisis that this vote makes inevitable for exactly the same reasons: Lack of restraint in good times combined with a lack of discipline in bad times."
--- Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, Aug. 21, 2007