SCHWARZENEGGER RECALL PRESCIENCE: Back when this first came up, James Lileks wrote that the best reason to support a Schwarzenegger governorship was that “like all typical examples of American craziness, this will just horrify the Europeans.”

Now Andrew Sullivan points out that he’s right, with this quote from Le Monde:

Here’s a state with 35 million people and a GDP about the size of France’s. . . . And yet here’s a state where, at a cost of millions of dollars, voters can dismiss a sitting governor barely eleven months after his election.

You can see why the unpopular French establishment would regard this as dangerous.

UPDATE: Roger Simon has more evidence of Lileks’ genius. Chortle.