They've apparently never learned the old adage, when in a hole, quit digging.

Members of the Assembly Democrats' progressive caucus were heard making candid, if not intemperate, statements such as one by Los Angeles Assemblyman Fabian Nunez that they may want to "precipitate a crisis" over the budget this year. That might persuade voters to lower the two-thirds vote threshold needed to pass a spending plan, he reasoned.

"It seems to me if there's going to be a crisis, the crisis should be this year," Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg, D-Los Angeles, said during the meeting. "What you do is you show people that you can't get to this without a 55 percent vote."

The unintentional broadcast was interrupted when someone informed the group that a microphone was on. "Oh s--," Goldberg said as the sound was cut.

Heh...

The Republicans are going to make golden hay out of this--the Dems just blew a major part of their demogogic message.

Imagine if it had been Republicans on that tape...4 inch headlines, above the fold.

This upsets the dems attempt to blame the whole budget crisis on the Republicans. If there were one lone Republican left in the state legislature...the LAT and the dems would say it was Republicans who were responsible for the budget crisis...