California politicians freak about the crashing economy

With unemplyment near 12%, and underemployment much worse, legislators are pretending to wake up:

Dan Walters, the standard bearing Cal Pundit:

Darrell Steinberg, the president pro tem of the state Senate, said it would "send a message to investors and employers that California is serious" and "put an end to the drumbeat that California is not friendly to business."

From Steinberg, protectorate of the Jerry Brownshirts, this is a laugh.
Dan Walters writes with a subtle sense of humor:

Ironically, as Steinberg and his Assembly counterpart, Speaker John A. Perez, were pledging regulatory reform on the third floor of the Capitol, two floors below, the Assembly was taking up a bill, backed by unions and opposed by business, that would expand CEQA's [Ca Environmental Quality Act]  reach by imposing new conditions on "superstores" such as Wal-Mart's.

Only God knows what these crackpots will dream up.