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The reviews are still out on our movie star governor, but one thing is clear: he can get things done. Whether those things are right or not is another thing altogether. His latest accomplishment, worker's comp reform, may not actually achieve what it is intended to do, according to the Economist:

Now he'll have to grapple with the budget, and we'll see whether he will use his powers of persuasion to address the structural deficits in the state budget. He may have a secret weapon: "One little-publicised provision gives the governor the right to suspend its strictures if a 'fiscal emergency' arises." This was, in fact, one of the reasons I opposed Prop 58. Providing that kind of power to a single person seems an extraordinarily dangerous thing to do. However, the centrist "unelectable via the normal process" governor may be willing to oppose the anti-tax foes within his own party and raise certain taxes: "he mused in a rare interview that perhaps his anti-tax stance was 'wishful thinking.'"

Guess we'll have to wait and see.