LAT on the GOP

In an editorial today, the LAT argues that California's governator ought to crack down on Republican state senators who are blocking passage of a state budget. The LAT wrongly argues that Schwarzenegger, as head of his party in California, should have influence with the recalcitrant senators and should persuade them to surrender. But the governator has no influence in the California Republican party, having joined forces with Democrats in the last two years. Besides, the senators are right in opposing the Democrat budget and Democrats deserve the comeuppance for ignoring the minority party in the legislature for about five decades.