California governor kicks nurses' butts, gains another victory

At Ms. Musings, there's a reference to Jon Carroll's editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle about California Governor Schwarzenegger's crude reaction to the distress of nurses at the Conference on Women and Families. Carroll wonders why there has been virtually no outcry over Schwarzenegger's remark that nurses were a "special interest" and that he had "kicked their butts." This latest accomplishment of the governor's (perhaps an improvement on grabbing their butts) came about after some nurses protested his announcement that he was delaying hospital staff increases.

If it seems hard to imagine that an entire population of people (many of them believed to be liberal) would let nurse-bashing go, consider this: These are the same people who elected an unindicted sex criminal as governor. What do you expect? And before anyone accuses me of California-bashing, let me make it clear that I think Schwarzenegger could have been elected in many states, not just California.

And note to Jon Carroll: Maybe they still wear them in California, but where I live, nurses haven't worn those hats in several decades.