Well, not really. We do have a life, you know. And the SciFi channel had a "Battlestar Galactica" marathon on.

If the Governator's State of the State speech was one of his movies, it would be Terminator III. Why? Because, if you remember back to those halcyon days when the Governor was an actor and not a politician, Terminator III was his comeback movie. After years and years of crappy movies and Jingle All the Way, Arnie just basically said "screw it, you guys want the big, dumb action movie with me playing a cyborg, I'll give you the big, dumb action movie with me playing a cyborg." So he gave the people what they wanted. And his big State of the State speech was nothing but one big huge attempt at giving the people what they want.

And what do people want? They want spending. Lots and lots of spending. And the best kind of spending, the "budget, schmudget/ build now, pay later" kind of spending. You want more money on education? You got it. Big public works projects? The kind that would make Pat Brown blush. Not to mention cheap prescription drugs from Canada and an increase in minimum wage . And all mainly done on bonds too, that big huge governmental credit card that politicians always love. Weren't we just about to have Guido come and try and collect on our bad credit rating a year or two ago? What happened to that?

Oh, and that weird sound in the background of the whole speech, the one sounding like locusts in the distance? That was the sound of conservative Republicans gnashing their teeth throughout the whole thing. Because as we all know, Arnie broke the fundamental rule of 21st Century Conservative Republicans: to increase spending but not admit to it (paging Mel Gibson).

The strategy, of course, is in response to the spanking he got during the Very Special Election, something for which he apologized yet again. What do you do when you're down in the polls and about to be up for reelection? You spend like Paris Hilton on a coke binge. And even better, you basically take away all your opponents' ammunition by taking away their campaign issues. It's like when two networks have two similar shows they're working on so one speeds up the production so it can put the show on air before the other network. It's already working too, as most Democrats, including guys like Don Perata whose plans Arnie stole, are saying "whoa, Nellie, slow down there." And Republicans, who are SO not amused are saying great, but throw us a frickin' bone here and want concessions like relaxing environmental rules.

Then there is the question of just who is this cat who we elected as Governor? When he ran, he ran as a Maverick Republican, a John McCain-type. Then last year he turned into cranky conservative and tried to get medieval on Democrats' asses. When that didn't work, he's now turned himself into Mr. 60's Democrat, building his way to a New Frontier. And if this doesn't work, who knows what we'll get.

Probably a new governor.