Just Kicking Back With The Boys

Via Steve Soto, check out these white men hitting happy hour to celebrate their denying money to nursing homes, hospitals, and childcare centers.

Making life harder on the less fortunate can be fun!

I think I see Jeff Denham in there. Somebody get this on a button!

UPDATE: And a budget deal has been reached, making this picture's quest for immortality moot (although I think my posting this made the pressure just too much to bear).

UPDATE II: Frank Russo has the latest. This doesn't look like such a horrible deal, but of course the Governor has promised an additional $700 million in cuts.

The California Environmental Quality Act changes that Republicans signed off on change the law as to global warming lawsuits only to enact a moratorium of two years or so (bill is not in print, but sources indicate that to be the case) until rules can be developed and is limited to roadways and other items contained in Proposition 1B which passed last year. It will not extend to housing developments and other areas being enforced by Attorney General Jerry Brown.

The Assembly is meeting now as well and bills will be simultaneously transmitted so both houses can conclude this overdue budget this afternoon on this, the 52nd day beyond the start of California's fiscal year. The budget will not go into effect until it is signed by Governor Schwarzenegger following his "blue pencil" (veto) of items. He has indicated he will further reduce the budget by $700 million in addition to the cuts necessary to get it passed in its current form. The Governor's signature is expected later today or tomorrow.

Republicans really wanted to gut Jerry Brown's ability to enforce global warming laws, but this is a more minor fix. Overall, this is not a good budget for Californians but that comes with the 2/3 rule for passage and the hijacking by Republicans.