Not to knock a guy when he's down, but I've said things like this before and I'll say it again: I just don't like Governor Gray Davis. I loved him before he was elected and I loved him at first, but he really disappointed, more than words can express, and only became something I liked when he was campaigning to save his job during the recall-- because he started doing what I had always hoped he would do from the beginning: govern strong and support important liberal causes without being wishy-washy. I was against the Recall because of the effect it had on public policy and because of the fact that it was a Republican coup. But that doesn't take away the fact that Davis was a terrible governor on the whole, mostly doing good things only because he was forced to by the Legislature or by the Recall. And the way he's leaving, making a lot of last-minute appointments without care to the fact that he's been forced out-- not a normal election loss-- just makes him and the Democratic Party look like it's all about political favoritism. This is the same kind of stuff I hate the Republicans and the Bush Administration for. Pretty sad and pathetic. Maybe he'll come back and maybe I'll change my mind later, again, but for right now I'm not that sad to see him go. And I'm a strong, partisan Democrat.