California GOP Is Wacko

Unless your in California (and maybe not even then) you may not have heard that the minority Republicans in the Senate are holding the budget hostage to other concessions. Because a budget requires a two-thirds vote to pass, they're leveraging a bunch of other legislation with the threat of closing down the government.

We all know how well that worked for Newt.

You can read about the details here in a very nicely summarized post on the subject.