Democrat: Beige Davis Should Be Fired

Daniel Weintraub in his California Insider column reveals that Democrat and former San Jose Mayor Tom McEnery has called for the removal (via recall) of Gray Davis in a scathing commentary.

Democrat and former San Jose Mayor Tom McEnery unloads a blistering condemnation of Gray Davis on the Merc’s op-ed page Sunday. Davis, McEnery says, is worthy of the same description Churchill once famously applied to an opponent: “A modest man with much to be modest about.” But the humor ends quickly:

Some say Davis is not guilty of sufficient misdeeds. Well, I stand instead with those who believe that endangering the economic health of each and every one of us is indeed a capital offense. Once thought so clever for his foray into the Republican primary -- burying the popular Los Angeles mayor, Richard Riordan, in an avalanche of lies and money -- Davis now sees the meaning of "blow back.''

I also might suggest that selling the highest office in the state to create one of the largest and most mischievous political funds this side of Richard Nixon is a punishable act, in and of itself. Lying on the budget deficit is something that the press takes with a wink and a nod -- a convenient, dangerous case of selective morality.