[goldstategop]

CAGOP leads Red California Rebellion Bump - those who live in California's vast, thinly populated conservative rural counties.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[FreedomPoster]

If Republicans in the U.S. Congress had acted like this, on fiscal matters, when they had the majority, we might still hold at least one house of Congress.

Kudos to California legislature’s Republican Senators.

[kittymyrib]

Talk about an endangered species...conservative Republicans in CA! If we had had men like these in D.C. the past eight years, they’d still be in the majority in Congress.
By the way, a big “I told you so” from FReepers who said Ahhnold would turn out to be a flop as Governator.

[ElkGroveDan]

More evidence the Times never gets anything right:

CAPTION: State Senate minority leader Dick Ackerman (R-Irvine), left, and Sen. Dave Cogdill (R-Modesto) chat as Sen. Bob Dutton (R-Rancho Cucamonga) follows debate on the budget Aug. 1. (Robert Durell / LAT)

That's Dennis Hollingsworth, not Dave Cogdill.

[Lancey Howard]

The scary part is that there is only a single vote separating the common decency of fiscal sanity and the swirling toilet of socialist tyranny.