• CALIFORNIA’S TERRIBLE POLITICS, CONDENSED: “California’s budget mess got messier Thursday as Democratic legislators approved a package of tax increases and spending cuts, Republican legislators threatened to sue over the package’s questionable constitutionality and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made the issue moot by promising to veto it. Democratic legislative leaders then announced lawmakers are going home for the holidays.” Won’t it be fun in the next couple of years when no state in the country is able to put together a budget? By then, California will already have been given back to Spain. [Digby]

Happy Easter, everybody! This is the time of year when Our Christian Nation celebrates the execution of the Middle Eastern insurgent Jesus Al Christ with an ancient pagan fertility festival named for the goddess Eostre.

The two most precious Christian symbols of this holiest of weekends are the bunny rabbit, because all it does is fuck and eat, and the painted egg, which reminds us of where all that sperm is headed. President Bush honors our national paganism each spring with a symbolic “egg hunt” in which children (the eventual product all that human sperm) run about the lawn looking for eggs or Barney’s poops.

As usual, there’s a new batch of Official State Easter Eggs which will be displayed at the White House. Join us after the jump for a gallery of dubious state symbolism.

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