Issa Balks

The California Republican congressman who bankrolled the recall against Davis -- ostensibly to remove from office an incompetent -- now says that, actually, it's not about removing an incompetent at all: it's about installing a Republican Governor.

In a speech to San Francisco GOP'ers (probably held in a phone booth on Nob Hill) Darrell Issa revealed that he believed having two Republicans in the race (McClintock and Schwarzenegger) will throw it to Bustamante. Rather than that, Issa says, vote NO on Recall.

So, Issa agrees with Clinton and Davis: Issa bankrolled the recall -- not because Davis is an unacceptable Governor, not because the state of California needs to remove him as incompetent, not because the will of the people of California has somehow been thwarted -- but because Republicans lost last year's election and they want a "do-over", to install a Republican Governor.