The Governator remembers he has a nutsack

Schwarzenegger is threatening to go full Conan on the California welfare system. Naturally, the libs are about to blow the tops off their empty skulls:

"Particularly in these extraordinary economic times, it's hard for me to believe that the Legislature would ever agree to that — or that this is a serious proposal even from this governor," said former Assemblywoman Dion Aroner, a Berkeley Democrat and architect of California's welfare-to-work program.

A Democrat from Berkeley who opposes welfare cuts? How did they ever find such an individual?

But with the deficit continuing to grow, Schwarzenegger's proposal seems certain at least to lead to major changes in the welfare program, which by most accounts has been a notable success

Random House sez: "success [suhk-ses] –noun: The favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors."

Hrm... Not seeing it, but maybe it's just me.

Further down, another liberal Dem chimes in, (I can't imagine where they're finding all these lefties in California):

Assemblyman Jim Beall, D-San Jose, argues for administrative cuts — reserving money for benefits rather than state workers who handle cumbersome paperwork and investigators who chase down the low number of "welfare cheats."

So his solution is to eliminate all the oversight and just hand out the money, trusting to the better natures of the recipients? Yeah, that'll work like a charm...

Eliminating CalWORKs would result in "a lot of little kids begging on the streets," Beall said.

Ah, there's the "Think of the Children" money-shot. I wondered when it would make an appearance.

Barbara O'Connor, director of Sacramento State University's Institute for the Study of Politics and Media, said it's "counterintuitive and unlikely" that Democrats will go for the end of welfare. But she added: "Anything is possible in this wacky environment."

By "wacky environment" I presume you mean the currently extant result of years of social engineering, deficit spending, anti-capitalism, unsound energy policies, radical environmentalist pandering and entitlements to non-citizens, all combining to set the entire state teetering on the brink of economic collapse? Is that the "wacky environment" of which you speak, Barbara? No... I didn't think so. Put your blinders back on; you're scaring the children.