Posted on 11/03/2010 9:15:22 AM PDT by The Jimmy Z Show
And they have the electoral votes to drag us down with them.
...They’re just happy to muddle along in a socialist fog.
Micheal Medved likened Brown’s reelection to a bad ‘70s acid flashback, which seems about right.
Someone posted elsewhere that the GOP did pick up a few seats in the CT Ass-embly, possibly enough to avoid a veto-proof majority?
You said you were leaving soon. I thought you might be shopping around we were just in Sand Point and found it beautiful and strong conservative. —
Californians are difficult to decipher.
They voted FOR Jerry Brown, and AGAINST legalizing marijuana.
Won't they require tons of the latter to put up with the former for the next four years?
Strange behavior indeed.
Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.; In memoria æterna erit justus, ab auditione mala non timebit.
Beauseant!
Yes it was an actual commercial. However, it said nothing about CO2, but showed pictures of smoking smokestacks and blamed Texas oil companies for the Proposition.
It was very powerful, and there was no equal commercial to counteract it.
If I had stayed in Maryland, none of that would have happened.
If I was you, I'd pack up the truck and MOVE OUT OF BEVERLY!
“When Jerry Brown repeals Prop 13, and your property taxes triple (like they did LAST time under his ‘leadership’), will you be upset? If you lose your house, who will you blame?”
Can JB repeal the items in the CA constitution?
Don't you know? CA is the boogieman for every state's failures. CA spawns these evil libtards and then secretly sends them into those conservative states so we can "Californicate" them.
I mean, it's not like there are any "Homegrown" libtards. No...they all come from our ultra, super top secret, all-green, zero emissions libtard manufacturing facility that Governor Moonbeam authorized when he was governor the first time.
Our evil plan is working, poor conservatives in other states have no one to blame except CA.
Oh, wait, our conspiracy has been exposed. OH NOEZ!!!!
Excellent rant.
Well, it was a strange campaign, but I'm not particularly surprised by the result.
For one thing, it's tough for anyone but a Democrat to win statewide office in California. Arnie was an exception. People really thought that the Terminator might be able to deal with legislators by "knocking their heads together" and forcing them to be reasonable.
But, Arnie soon found out about the power of the public employee unions in California and the influence that they exercise over member of both parties in SacAnd,ramento. Teachers demand higher salaries, smaller class sizes and more money. Prison guards demand more prisoners, more prisons, higher salaries, more overtime, and higher pensions and that's just two of the unions. What Democrat is willing to vote to cut funds for education? What Republican is willing to vote to reduce the number of prisoners or prisons? And, nobody can compromise a penny by offering to reduce spending on some of their own favorites in exchange for the other side cutting spending on some of the other side's favorites. No compromise!
So, the spending continues and a budget (which must at least appear to be balanced) can't be passed unless 2/3 of the legislators agree. It's really been an impossible situation.
The next governor needs to take on all of these public employee unions.
So, Meg faced a difficult situation. Up against a party registration deficit because she is a Republican, she probably needed to risk alienating all of the interest groups related to schools, prisons, and public services by more forcefully, more clearly and more specifically articulating just exactly how she intended to take on each of those public employee unions. But, if she had done that, would she have won?
Could she have won by promising to make real cuts in education? Could she have won by promising to release some prisoners and maybe even close some prisons?
I doubt it. She probably ran the best race she could have run in California.
It is probably better that the Dems won in California. Nothing any human can do will save the state from bankruptcy. Like any other bankruptcy they will have to completely fail and then start over. Better to have the Dems who caused the problem face the music. Will be kind of hard to dodge responsibility if you control it all.
You left....You didn't vote....Now you mock?
Funny how people like you and other conservatives flee, run away, and then complain...
While other conservatives now beg Californians to move to "their" states...Most of which have frigged winters, icy roads, with hellish humid summers etc, etc.
I find that very odd...
Removing politics, California is arguably paradise with super nice year around weather, deserts, beaches, world class harbors, nations biggest military presences, the Sierras, etc, etc...
It's very odd conservatives are so quick to run away, giving up the best to settle for less...
Tell me, if like minded people all flee like you did, do you expect things to go the way you would like them to?
If all the conservatives fled Congress, or Texas for that matter, would you expect those places to remain conservative?
Sorry for the rant but comparing CA to TX in anyway tax-”wise” after last nights election results here on the LEFT coast has me getting moving boxes ready for the high potential Brown-Out of Prop 13 repeal. AND giving these State elitists a simple majority vote versus the current 2/3 to vote a budget in like pouring water on sulfuric acid... it's gonna get ugly.
A “Very Concise Post” BUMP!
Very nice, thank you, from one Californian to another.
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