NEW-OLD CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN

[C]an Brown ... finally shed the old caricature of "Governor Moonbeam" and become the landmark philosopher-statesman he once promised that he would be, but was not, three decades ago? [I]f he can't, he'll be remembered as just another tax-and-spend California ideologue like hyper-partisan Rep. Nancy Pelosi or fossilized Sen. Barbara Boxer -- perpetually fiddling away in office while the redistributive state [goes] up in flames.

My bet is on flames. Read it all.