Kabuki without end

摘要

WHAT a lot of history California has been making this month. For the first time since 1933, the (Democrat-controlled) state legislature has the power to enact a budget with a simple majority, thanks to a ballot measure voters approved last year. So it passed a budget on June 15th, meeting the constitutional deadline-also for the first time in years. But the next day Governor Jerry Brown, himself a Democrat, vetoed that budget-apparently the first such veto in California's history. The budget was not balanced, he said, and contained "legally questionable manoeuvres".