A Second Term for Obama Would Make the United States Go as California Has Gone

Real Clear Politics ^ | Oct 8, 2011 | Rep. Tom McClintock

[Avoiding_Sulla]

welcome...to the savage lands of the Left Coast. You are here in California to answer an important theoretical question and now you have your answer.

Yes, this is what Barack Obama’s second term would look like.

Study it. Fear it. And then go home and make sure that it never happens to the rest of the country.

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the tale of how, in the span of a single generation, the most prosperous and golden state in the nation became an economic basket case.

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The political Left gradually gained dominance over California’s government and has imposed a disastrous agenda of radical and retrograde policies that have destroyed the quality of life that Californians once took for granted.

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I submit to you that no conceivable act of God could wreak such devastation. Only acts of government can do that. And they have.

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Our regulatory burdens are also years ahead of the rest of the nation – we’ve had our own version of Cap and Trade on the books for five years now, and even though the bulk of these restrictions yet to take effect, investors make decisions every day anticipating their impact.

This has already proven utterly devastating to energy generation, cargo and passenger transportation, cement production, construction, wine making, agriculture and manufacturing. When he signed this legislation, Gov. Schwarzenegger promised that this would produce a cornucopia of new green jobs.

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But I need to remind you that the Obama administration is pursuing exactly the same policies nationally – and so far with the same results.

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The humility...gave way to the hubris that the state knew better...at the core of this breakdown was the abandonment of our basic republican structure of government – and it began. right. here.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

I linked to SKUNCs definition up in comment no.1. But here is the short reason for its invention.

Because RINO stands for Republican in name only, those who are in office can still claim to being republican even if they selectively cut our throats “for the common good in our opinion.”

So I held a contest to come up with an alternate, and the winner was GuyS who came up with SKUNC. That’s Statists knowingly undermining national charters.”

The American national charter is our constitution. But SKUNCs are all around the globe, most notably active in UK, Oz, NZ and and to a lesser extent today in Canada.

[Bokababe]

I linked to SKUNCs definition up in comment no.1.

Yes, you did. I am sorry that I missed that initially.

Excellent!

It seems that the Democrats and SKUNCs, keep getting re-elected because we have raised several California generations of infantile adults who still can't decide whether or not they want Mommy (the Democrats) or Daddy (The Skuncs) to run their lives. They favor Mommy, so Daddy keeps trying to be like Mommy in order to win their votes. A real Father would have kicked their butts by now and told them to buck up -- but that's not popular -- so instead Daddy is reduced to wet nurse.

[Monorprise]

“Many of the CA leftists you mention have already relocated and taken over CO.”

Leftist are like locust after they uses the host goverment to rob everyone of every last freedom and peace of “change” they move on to the next host to do it all over again.

This plague needs to be stopped.