The California recall election scheduled for Oct. 7 is portrayed on television as a joke.... Democracy is not a joke, however, and we laugh at this crisis of democracy at our own peril....
We can debate about how much of the current crisis is Davis’ fault and how much blame lies on other doorsteps. (But has anyone been fired from the federal government or spent time in jail after the “energy crisis,” allegedly precipitated by Kenneth Lay and President Bush’s other close friends at Enron?)