California's Republican Fringe (Los Angeles Times Slams CAGOP As "Extremist") MEGA-BARF ALERT

Los Angeles Times ^ | 07/27/2007 | Los Angeles Times Editorial Board

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Voters in the deserts and valleys, and the suburbs that ring Los Angeles and San Diego, are not yet beset by the urban issues faced by the majority of Californians -- inadequate commuter rail, snarled freeways, unaffordable housing, gang crime. They have a right to their view, but the law that makes California the only state in the union besides Rhode Island and Arkansas to require a two-thirds vote to adopt a budget gives undue power to a handful of increasingly extremist GOP legislators.

There is another way. Voters ousted a Democratic governor and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger as a moderate who understood the centrist sentiment that long has been a guiding principle in California. He may have angered his party's lawmakers by his outreach across the aisle, but Republicans who revel in seeing their leader get his comeuppance may, in the long run, merely be dooming their party to the margins.

[goldstategop]

The Los Angeles Times has been so Far Left, it nearly falls into the ocean, but look at the editorial blasting Republicans as "extremist," you have to wonder if they've finally fallen into the Pacific. If the CAGOP doesn't fall into line with the liberal agenda, the party is doomed. Not to worry; their clueless liberal idiots have been saying that for ages now. At least we know where California's Newspaper Of Record stands on the budget.

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[fieldmarshaldj]

I hope to the LA Slimes the CA GOP IS extremist. If they were remotely acceptable to these moonbats, we’d know the GOP was on the wrong track. ;-)

[tanuki]

The way the Dims have been running this state, the margins may be the safest place to be.

[BunnySlippers]

YIKES!!!

[17th Miss Regt]

...but the law that makes California ... require a two-thirds vote to adopt a budget gives undue power to a handful of increasingly extremist GOP legislators.

Undue power? The voters of California passed this law by a wide margin through the initiative process. That is not undue power. If the situation were reversed with the Democrats blocking the budget, the L.A. Slimes would be in our faces with their other face cheering the Dems on with chants of 'Power to the people!' and 'Onwards towards the victory of the proletariat!'.

[kingu]

Gosh, how extremist to demand a budget that, well, is a budget, and has reasonable expectations for revenue, instead of the spend everything deal that is on the table.

Least someone in Sacramento is recalling what they promised the voters.

[CounterCounterCulture]

If the CAGOP is extremist, I must be super-duper ultra-uber mega-hardcore-fringe infinity+1 extremist to the n^th degree. :-)

[quadrant]

What the article doesn’t say is that the Republican budget would create a surplus.