Los Angeles Times on Budget: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California vigorously opposed a 2004 ballot measure that would have lowered the supermajority needed for the legislature to pass a budget to 55 per cent from the current two-thirds. Now, it seems, he’s not so sure. With his budget held up seven weeks past deadline by a handful of senators from his own Republican Party, the governor signaled last week that he might be willing to take another look at whether a small band of lawmakers representing a minority of Californians should continue to have disproportionate power over state spending.