Dubya to California:Ya'll On Your Own

(5/30/01)  Dubya took 40 minutes out of his schedule to discuss the California energy crisis with Governor Gray Davis. Davis should be thankful; he got twice as much time as Dubya's handlers had previously announced. Californians are paying 10 times more for electricity than they were 2 years ago, thanks to the GOPER deregulation plan.  Dubya's suggestion: use your tax cut to pay your electricity bill.

The private meeting between Davis and Bush was described as confrontational.  Davis told Bush that he will sue the Federal Government for price caps.  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has already found the prices being charged to be unreasonable.

My crystal ball is telling me that this may be the first issue tackled by the Democrat Senate.  Relief could come in the form of a bill to provide emergency price caps to keep one fifth of our nation's economy from going down the tubes.  Such a measure will face strong opposition from Dubya's minions, and he probably wouldn't sign it, but that course of action would be extremely risky from a political standpoint.