Agreed. For me, this calls for a revival of federalism. I think the Bay area should probably be its own state. The Bay is to modern America what Rhode Island was to the founding thirteen states. It's the proud, wealthy, leftmost American proto-state, and it deserves its own representation. Trapping it in the uber-state that elected Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronald Reagan, is something akin to the 2/3 compromise.
(btw, I do love the fact that the spell checker on my lover's computer actually corrects me on the spelling of Schwarzenegger!). So much better than my cell's autocorrect!.
