He's a Leader, not an Actor

Phil Angelides' campaign is a joke:

“Democratic gubernatorial challenger Gov. Phil Angelides promised Saturday `to do everything in my power’ to bring California National Guard troops home from Iraq if he is elected governor.” He’d face three obstacles.

The first is Article II of the Constitution, which makes the president the commander-in-chief of “the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.”

The second is a federal law forbidding governors from withholding consent to National Guard activation “because of any objection to the location, purpose, type, or schedule of such active duty.”

The third is a Supreme Court decision upholding that law.The Bee continues: “`The governor can't countermand him [the president] — it's not a realistic possibility’ said Joseph Grodin, a former state Supreme Court justice and constitutional law expert at the University of California's Hastings College of Law. `It's not a legal possibility, either.’”

Of course, Angelides is not making a serious policy proposal, just trying to salvage a campaign that's circling the drain.

That's not just stupid pandering, it's transparently stupid pandering.