Jerry Brown doesn’t go to China … yet.

Mickey Kaus Columnist
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California Quick-Fill: Good, short situationer from Dan Weintraub on Gov. Jerry Brown’s complicated attempt to close California’s budget gap. Key graf:

The governor, for instance, has called Republicans “disloyal to California” for refusing to put his tax plan on the ballot. A handful of Republicans who were negotiating with the governor, meanwhile, threw up their hands earlier this week and said the negotiations were going nowhere because Brown refused to cross his public employee union supporters.

You could argue that Brown was elected, in part, precisely because he seemed willing to cross his public employee union supporters. But instead of going to China, he’s waiting for the light bulb to want to change! Or at least to  accept the need for change. That might happen. When you read between the lines of Weintraub’s piece, isn’t it clear that pretty soon the union-backed Dems will have to cave to at least some GOP demands (for “a spending limit, pension reform and regulatory relief for business”) in order to get the tax extensions placed before the voters for approval? …[via Rough & Tumble]

P.S.–Card Check in California: California’s Democrats believe in preserving agricultural workers’ rights. Unfortunately, the right to a secret ballot is not one of them. And this time Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t around to veto “card check.’ …