The Governator in action:

Schwarzenegger is also proposing to take $282 million from programs to help the developmentally disabled -- Californians suffering from autism, mental retardation, cerebral palsy and the like. In 1969 wild-eyed radical governor Ronald Reagan signed the Lanterman Act, creating an entitlement for the developmentally disabled in the state. Schwarzenegger now proposes cutbacks in programs that California offers the 626,000 of its citizens with mental or physical impairments affecting their ability to learn and speak: music and art therapy, camping, horseback riding. He also proposes to suspend the Lanterman Act, in order to freeze enrollment in developmental disability programs come January. The new applicants may experience some long waits, because the disabilities of the current enrollees are not curable and their need for therapy is often lifelong.

This all may make for some interesting table talk between Arnold and his family-by-marriage. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, his mother-in-law, is, of course, the founder of the Special Olympics, a privately funded foundation that offers sports activities to the developmentally disabled. Schwarzenegger himself has been a spokesman for the Special Olympics. Just last month, he proclaimed that he "envision[ed] a world where people with intellectual disabilities are fully accepted, and where every person has the opportunity to succeed." That world, apparently, will not include California so long as Schwarzenegger calls the shots.

If Arnold truly cares about the mentally handicapped, he would call Enron's Ken Lay and ask "Kenny Boy" to pay for these social programs with the $70 billion he bilked out of the state.