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Arlen Specter is like the guy with two potential prom dates, though by the end of next year he could be sitting home alone. Why does a Pennsylvania Republican even matter in California? For the same reason residents of the Golden State should look to Connecticut Democrat Joe Lieberman -- yes, he's still officially registered as a Democrat -- as an example of what happens to centrists that one party deems too much of something but another finds is not enough of something else. They're both text

Legislators who want to be true leaders should follow the example of Sen.Abel Maldonado and not only refuse pay raises any time the state's ina deficit, but also agree to cut their pay immediately. Of allthe demands from all the Republicans in all the California Legislature, this onesounds so imminently sensible that it should happen even if it doesn't make itinto the final budget legislation, assuming the state some day reaches thatpoint. That'snot proposed as a form of punishment, because wo