Every time I even think about the Loony Left Coast coming back to sanity and the GOP... 
I realize how impossible it would be to duck all the pig manure falling from the sky if that came to pass!
Posted on 05/14/2009 7:53:49 AM PDT by FromLori
he majorities rejecting the attempt to tax California into a brave new world are growing, and Arnold and his tax-and-spend-and-tax-again Democratic allies are facing an embarrassing meltdown in next week's vote in California.
The tax hike crowd have spent massively on the initiatives and Arnold is stumping furiously, but the no vote is fueled by voter anger at the enormous surge in spending in the Golden State over the past decade, and by the refusal to make serious reforms in the way the state runs. The public pension problem is also beginning to come into view, and ordinary voters are shocked at the amount of spending the public employee unions have carved out of the legislature.
The single biggest driver behind the "no" vote is, however, the dishonesty of the "yes" campaign. The brain trust in Sacramento decided to try and sell their massive tax hike and theft of money from designated funds as a "spending cap," and in so doing conveyed enormous contempt for the voters. Every time Arnold calls Measure 1A and its sister stealth proposals as other than a massive tax hike and a series of tax grabs --1D is literally stealing money from kids programs like dentistry and autism/asthma treatment even as the legislature kept its cars and staffs-- the public feels, correctly, that Arnold and the Sacramento Dems thinks they are idiots. The smart guys running the campaign have managed to telegraph a sneer with every add that shows a weary fireman pleading with the voters not to end firefighting in the state. Voters know they are being conned, and no amount of campaign spending can erase the complete knowledge that the electeds and their sharpie advisors think the voters a vast crowd of fools.
The significance of the "no" vote on !A through 1E is that it signals more of the same disgust as powered the Tea Parties: Government is too large, takes too much of our money, and lies about doing so. President Obama's personal popularity through his honeymoon period is obscuring the rising disgust with the massive expansion of the federal government that is underway, but that disgust is real, and it will grow larger when the public gets a clear vision of the Obama/Pelosi/Reid attempt to ration health care.
On yesterday's program I played a clip of Professor Stuart Altman's testimony before a Senate committee meeting devoted to the radical restructuring of health care. Professor Altman got perilously close to candor:
Hubby and I will vote no on all of it.
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Hey Colin Powell..I though american’s wanted higher taxes and more governement? If they don’t want them in CA..just where do they want them?
The ads for these Props are absolute lies and people have detected that. This ad was sponsored by teachers, firefighters, public employees unions and Business’s?
Californians have made California Kaliforina....idiots they are...the proof is overwhelming....Pelosi, Boxer, etc....
They have created their own "Hog Waller".....and now they complain of the mud and stank!
May all these inits die the ignominious deaths they so richly deserve.
Welcome to FR, Town hall is a great resource!
$70 million spent on this special election. For nothing - those propositions are going to bite the dust - we’re sick of the teacher’s union telling us they need more money NOT to educate our kids.
Arnold....would you like some “tea” ;)
The only answer left for the all-consuming beast of out-of-control CA spending is to starve the beast. It’s “burn baby burn” time. It’s too bad, CA was once a great state, and scenically it still is, but something has to be done. Left unchecked, CA will become 70% non-taxpayers and it isn’t going to do it on my dime, to the extent I can influence it.
IMHO, If this goes down to defeat, I think the tea parties gave a “focus” for the public to reflect.
Its losing by a huge percentage, as are all the other tax propositions.
They have created their own “Hog Waller”.....and now they complain of the mud and stank!”
And when they move to other state they(Californians) bring their CA “mud and stank” with them.
Actually your wrong.
Both those people are NOT from California.
Pelosi was born and raised in Maryland, and Barbara Boxer was born and raised in New York.
Charlie Manson? Born and raised in Ohio.
She and her husband just moved to Missouri to accept a position at a park there. They made this decision specifically because if they remained in California, they would not "get anywhere" financially.
That cannot be right. Janeane Garafalo assured me that the only reason people would protest something like this was because a black man was in office.
Arny ain't black, is he?
Every time I even think about the Loony Left Coast coming back to sanity and the GOP... I realize how impossible it would be to duck all the pig manure falling from the sky if that came to pass!
You want Arnold “East”? Vote Crist in Florida.
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