Thought for Food

Governors get it; they’re on the front lines of the recession.  Loved this zinger from Hendrik Hertzberg, on Obama’s effort to make the stimulus package bipartisan, despite fierce opposition by Congressional Republicans:

A Gallup poll taken last week found twenty-eight per cent of Republican voters (and fifty-six per cent of independents) backing the stimulus. […] And four Republican governors—California’s Arnold Schwarzenegger, Connecticut’s Jodi Rell, Florida’s Charlie Crist, and Vermont’s Jim Douglas—joined fifteen of their Democratic colleagues in signing a letter calling for its enactment. A Republican governor, you might say, is sort of like a Republican congressman—except with actual responsibilities.