[goldstategop]

Excuse me, but we don't have a Republican Legislature! I'm sure you meant to say Republicans in the Legislature. Anyway, if you've seen the Los Angeles Times this morning, a lot of conservatives see even California's toothless spending cap measure as a step in the right direction. We want one even as the politicians in Colorado seek to overturn theirs. Which leads one to the inevitable and inexorable conclusion: our politicians will never, left to their own devices, put our state government on a permanent diet. So we must do it for them.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[calcowgirl]

Excuse me, but we don't have a Republican Legislature! I'm sure you meant to say Republicans in the Legislature.

Yes. I meant Republicans IN the legislature. Had this outrageous plan been submitted by a Dem, they would have blocked it. Instead, out of a sense of (R) loyalty (or whatever), they have thrown common-sense to the wind.

Anyway, if you've seen the Los Angeles Times this morning, a lot of conservatives

I don't consider Norquist's opinion on California budget issues to be worth much. He's consistently ill-informed.

[editor-surveyor]

"our politicians will never, left to their own devices, put our state government on a permanent diet. So we must do it for them."

Californians, are we going to do this? Hint: You will have to get out of bed to do it.

[45Auto]

So we must do it for them

The only way to do it in the short run is through the initiative process; the RATs will only laugh at that since they control the corrupt state judiciary. It only takes one commie judge (and there are many in the state) to overturn an otherwise constitutionally legal ballot measure. I think the only cure for California is a massive quake or a jump over the cliff into bankruptcy. The politicians seem bent on the latter.