Flutterby™! :

Okay, I'm no longer going to take any crap about my cynical politics. The California Republican Party just mailed us a flyer in support of Dan Lungren, our fascist attorney general turned candidate for governor. One of the bullet points they offer in support of Lungren:

He offers a good counterbalance to Democrat-controlled state Legislature. We like the notion of checks and balances on state government. The thought of either party getting control of both the legislative and executive branches of state government scares us and, we suspect, most people...

Youch. And I thought I was cynical. That lends to one of two translations. Either "We can't offer any real candidates or ideas, so we can at least introduce gridlock", or "we think voters are stupid enough to think that we really don't want control." Whichever way, my cynicism in American, and especially Californian, politics, has just been completely trumped. Way to go, guys, I didn't think that was possible.