Posted on 12/20/2018 2:07:36 PM PST by Kaslin
Outgoing California Gov. Jerry Brown recently said, "The weakness of the Republican Party has let the Democratic Party, I think, go get further out than I think the majority of people want." When a tax-spend-and-regulate Democrat who signed legislation making California the first "sanctuary state" says the Democrats have gotten too "further out" for the majority, that party would be wise to take notice. In the November elections, California Democrats won veto-proof supermajorities in both chambers of state government. No Republican currently holds an elected state-wide office.
Brown seems to recognize that there are only so many "rich" people and that one doesn't become rich by being too stupid to know that the rich have options. California has the highest state income tax in the country, with a top marginal rate of 13.3 percent. Even left-wing, Trump-hating California resident Bill Maher complained about the state's high income taxes in 2013: "ln California, I just want to say: Liberals, you could actually lose me. ... Rich people ... actually do pay the freight in this country ... like 70 percent" of the taxes.
As to who bears responsibility for the Democratic lurch to the left, Brown blames Republican "weakness." Follow that? Republican "weakness" practically forced the Democrats to pursue a hard-left agenda: abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and pursuing "Medicare-for-all," $15 minimum wage, tuition-free college, and climate change alarmism.
Brown is warning the Democrats that President Donald Trump's agenda is closer to what Americans want than that of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the House's newly elected self-described socialist. And Brown is looking at results. Even the international community is grudgingly acknowledging the merits of Trump's positions.
Take, for instance, Trump's actions against China over the country's theft of intellectual property and the forced transfer of proprietary technology as a condition of doing business. Nicolas Chapuis, the EU ambassador of China, also recently sounded downright Trumpian while complaining of this practice: "This has to stop or to be regulated ... so that there is no so-called 'forced tech transfer.'"
The Europeans are echoing Trump's concerns about Iran that caused the U.S. to withdraw form the Iran deal. "Not only does the deal fail to halt Iran's nuclear ambitions," Trump said in explaining the withdrawal, "but it also fails to address the regime's development of ballistic missiles that could deliver nuclear warheads." Three weeks ago, Iran again test-fired a medium-range missile, capable of carrying multiple warheads and striking anywhere in the Middle East and parts of Europe. This alarmed the U.K., Germany and France, whose foreign ministry said, "(France) condemns this provocative and destabilizing action."
As for climate change, France's Emmanuel Macron lectured Trump last year on the risk of pulling out of the Paris climate agreement. Macron warned, "There is no Plan B because there is no Planet B." But Macron recently discovered a Plan B when, after days of riots in France, he agreed to suspend an unpopular climate-change gas tax that would have raised France's average price per gallon to nearly $8. In America, polls consistently rank climate change among Americans' least concerns.
As for the Democrats' push for "single-payer" health care, "Medicare-for-all" or "Sanders care," Ocasio-Cortez claims it can be paid for by ending the waste, fraud and abuse in our defense budget. The price tag for "Medicare-for-all" is generally estimated, by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, to cost $32.6 trillion over 10 years. This year, the entire defense budget is under $700 billion. This leaves Ocasio-Cortez just a little short.
Brown senses the danger his party faces because of its blatant contempt for Trump. Mika Brzezinski, a co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," criticized Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for, in her view, irresponsibly following Trump's lead in refusing to directly implicate Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the murder of a Washington Post Saudi columnist. Brzezinski said: "Why doesn't Mike Pompeo care? ... Are the pathetic deflections that we just heard ... is that a patriot speaking? Or a wannabe dictator's butt boy?"
Two days later -- she was off the following day -- Brzezinski gave this on-air apology: "I wanted to address a term that I used on this show on Wednesday that was vulgar. ... The term is crass and offensive, and I apologize to everybody, especially the LGBTQ community and to my colleagues for using it. It was a mistake. My father would have found it so unbecoming and disrespectful, and he would have told me. I will work hard to be better. But I just want to say on camera, looking viewers straight in the eye: I am really, really sorry." Notice anything missing? Brzezinski offered no direct apology to the target of her scorn -- Pompeo himself. There is a term for this: "Trump Derangement Syndrome."
Brown, now that he's leaving office, feels free to speak his mind. He offers his party some advice. Countering Trump with Sanders care, "free" college tuition and abolishing ICE is not the road to victory in 2020.
“Turn down the heat, the frogs are hopping!”
And very few in the legislature. They own it ALL. Any problems now they are in full control, they own....................
At last some wisdom from Jerry Brown—He has a brain—who whould have thunk it?
Worse than that, the commies in the legislature can over ride Governor Newsome’s veto. Good God, we are looking to Newsome to save us from communism.
Doesn’t matter. The criminal Demonrat party is in charge of counting votes in CA, so the Republicans will always lose.
To reiterate my post from earlier threads:
No voting results from California can be taken as serious, fair, or honest.
Not in 24 YEARS (since 1994) has a Republican defeated a Democrat incumbent in a federal race in California out of HUNDREDS of contests. That is not only a statistical impossibility, it is outright fraud. The Demonrats just stole over HALF of the remaining and badly underrepresented 14 seats in one shot in heavily GOP districts in Nov 2018. This is absolute fraud and theft.
Uh, too late Jerry.
The legislature is now run by the Orcs from South of the Border.
It is no longer “American” in any recognizable form.
The Orcs have no restraint. They will be hopping up and down screaming “take everything they have! if they resist, kill them!”
THAT is the future you and Pretty Boy have sold us and our children into.
If that is true why are all of these wealthy Californians in Beverly Hills, Bel air, Silicon Valley, Hollywood and all of these other places where most of us couldn’t even afford a two bedroom starter house voting for these people. Heck, they are the ones running the whole California show and they seem to be the last ones changing their vote. Odd enough. I think it may be because we have lowered their fed taxes over the last 30 years to raise state taxes. We really need to think our strategy about dealing with these upper crust cry babies and their feckless, treacherous, duplicitous backstabbing rino open borders cheap labor Republican counter parts. I say tax them even further. Make them live in the sewers that they created. They want socialism either by design or by stupidity and greed than make them live up to their ideals.
‘Cept it’s all talk. He claimed to see the light on overreaching Government when he was Mayor of Oakland, only to return to his ultraleftist ways the moment he was back in state government. He had ample opportunity to govern as this “great moderate” and he never did.
Kettle meet pot.
When Xavier Becerra, Chair of the House Democrat Caucus left Congress to take the Cali AG job, Becerra made sure his DC staff came with him.....
(to keep an eye on them in case they got the urge “to talk” about the Paki spy operation in the House Democrat Caucus).
Becerra’s tax-paid staff were kept under his watchful eye.....with bonuses....
just as long as they promised never to go near the DC cocktail circuit. Read on:
As Cali AG, Becerra Issued a Press Release 05-May-2017 listing his old familiar staff,
assuring everyone they were accompanying him to his new job:
THE CALI AG OFFICE LINEUP:
Xavier Becerra, California Attorney General
Sean McCluskie, Chief Deputy Attorney General (was Cong’s Becerra’s COS)
Amanda Renteria, Chief of the Division of Operations
Laura Stuber, Senior Special Assistant Attorney General
Eleanor Blume, Special Assistant Attorney General
Jonathan “Jon” Blazer, Special Assistant Attorney General
Melanie Fontes Rainer, Special Assistant Attorney General
Kelli Evans, Special Assistant Attorney General
David Zonana, Special Assistant Attorney General
Alejandro Pérez, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, Office of Federal Affairs
Sirat Attapit, Director, Office of Legislative Affairs
Bethany Lesser, Communications Director
Chris Moyer, Deputy Communications Director
Patricia Moscoso, Executive Speechwriter
Liz Saldivar, Director of External Affairs
<><>How many US govt paychecks were the Becerra staff people cashing in the DC Swamp....
<><> Are the staff named above still on US govt payrolls in DC?
(That’s an old political trick pols like Becerra love-—keeping selected staff on the payroll after they get jobs elsewhere.
They are cashing US govt paychecks long after taxpayers think they’ve gone.)
Call President Trump: Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414
APRIL 2016 THE US HOUSE SPY SCAM IS UNVEILED---
Alarm bells went off when House computer security officials reported “irregularities” in tech equipment purchases......
Specifically, the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars in US government property.
The initial evidence pointed to (a) five Paki IT staffers, and, (b) Congressional Democrats that employed them.
BECERRA KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THIS--The Paki scam quickly exploded into:
<><> (A) multiple charges of conspiracy against the United States of America,
<><>(B) double-billing Congress,
<><> (C) placing ghost employees on the govt payroll,
<><> (D) stealing govt issue electronics,
<><> (E) submitting falsified documents,
<><> (F) mortgage scams,
<><>(G) shady wire transfers to Pakistan, and,
<><>(H) Congressional bank fraud.
Democrats hired this bunch to boost their “diversity” credentials....sucking up for votes is never far from their small minds.
THE DEMOCRAT DIRTY THIRTY----UP TO 80 DEMOCRATS EMPLOYED THE IMRAN CLAN
Interactive a Daily Caller web site.
Newsome is one of them. Why would he veto anything?..................
I certainly hope none of California’s pressing legal issues fell through the cracks in the transition?
Hopefully, Kamala left her hard drive behind so Xavier could review her recent activity.
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UPDATE: Kamala's hard drive proved good for nothing. All she did was order Viagra online for her sex romps with the ex-Mayor.
Sadly even extra-strength Viagra couldnt get the ex-Mayor "in play." Luckily Planned Parenthood sent over some experimental sex toys-----happy-face condoms lined with rubber cement.
Yup, that did the trick but it was hell to remove the thing from his aging flaccid penis.
Poor Kamala musta really struggled with that.
“At last some wisdom from Jerry Brown—He has a brain—who whould have thunk it?”
Not to worry, “Any Twosome Newsom,” our new governor elect will eclipse even Jerry’s level of Marxist lunacy! And it’s going to be a hoot when his ex-wife marries Don Jr.!
It will be a bigger hoot when Don Jr. is elected the 46th President of the USA. and Newsom’s ex wife is First Lady
Mister Brown knows of his multiple malfeasances, and he would like to share the "responsibility".
Nupe.
YOU, "Moonbeam", signed the laws.
YOU, "Moonbeam", own them, and their odious infection of your revulsion-inducing legacy.
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While I like the visual (two hot First Ladies in a row), I think that this country has had enough of political family businesses for now. At least until Chelsea Hubbell tries her hand at running, Lord help us!
Hilarious.
I believe if Trump is assassinated—Don Jr. will take up his mantle. Only something like that would propel him into the White House. But, anything is possible and a real revenge upon the Liberal Progs who have done all they could to destroy the USA for Chinese gold.
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