First Take: Political pulse

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From the Los Angeles Times: Michael Hiltzik says Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should stop looking to Washington, D.C., as the cause of the state’s budget woes and start looking in the mirror.

Shane Goldmacher writes that the governor’s latest budget proposal is an attack on labor unions.

George Skelton says legislators agree with voters that there should be change; they just can’t agree on what kind of change.

Patrick McGreevy looks at who was bankrolling a recent Assembly and Senate Republican retreat in Santa Barbara.

In Sacramento today, the state Assembly will discuss a bill that would impose new safety standards on ski resorts. The Assembly Banking Committee will hold a hearing to discuss credit card fees. Gov. Schwarzenegger addresses the Sacramento Press Club.

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-- Anthony York in Sacramento