I found a copy of the New York Times up here in Maine. Apparently Gray Davis is denouncing the recall because it is “un-democratic.” This is bass-ackwards nonsense. As I’ve written before, the problem with the recall is that it is too democratic. It puts the will of the voters above the mechanisms of republican government. In a democratic republic we vote on who should decide the issues, not the issues themselves. The vote may be un-Democratic insofar as it is against the interests of the Democratic Party, but the recall vote itself is the height of democracy in action.