We Can Learn From California's Debacle(Liberalism's "Canary in the Coal Mine")

Real Clear Politics ^ | May 19, 2009 | Carol Platt Liebau

[neodad]

And contrary to the claims of those on the left, the problem isn't inadequate "investment," i.e., spending.

I love how the libs have been able to frame the debate once again that "tax and spend" has now become "investments in our future".

[trad_anglican]

And voters are so disgusted with the ineptitude and waste of a state legislature dominated by liberal Democrats that they are poised to vote down a $16 billion tax increase and a slew of propositions allegedly intended to beat back fiscal Armageddon.

And yet the voters in California continue to re-elect these people and send them back to Sacramento. What is it the wise men say about doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result?

[sickoflibs]

Land of Sunshine ping!

[Former Proud Canadian]

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[Lou Budvis]

I’m hoping so hard we win today. It will be the first time the oh-so-concerned pleas of teachers and firefighters will have failed.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Headline?

Pilot's qualifications questioned.
California Crash Investigated: Pilot Error
Co-pilot Mrs. Schwarzenkenney haranguing husband at time of stall, crash

[Logical me]

And yet the voters in California continue to re-elect these people and send them back to Sacramento

It's the same ignorant liberals and the cult of tax and spend that destroyed Kalifornia. The local MSM, Hollywierd, and educational system has turned out the worst generation of fool America has ever produced. Add to this the State Government and we have no chance of ever becoming great again.

[MrB]

Methinks Mr Schwarzenkenney decided to put a final end to the haranguing.

[ggrrrrr23456]

Just got back from voting NO on ALL of the propositions.

Just the 9.25% sales tax alone is enough to make one angry.

And they want more of our money? Forget it!

[AlaskaErik]

If Americans are smart, they'll learn from California's example.

Oh yeah...look who they put in the White House. Look who they put in the House and Senate. All those idiot voters are going to get what they deserve. The really sad part is that the rest of us will have to pay for it...through higher taxes and loss of personal freedom.

[PressurePoint]

... President's threat to withhold stimulus money ...

That would be the "stimulus money" the chumps in the rest of the country are sending California to subsidize our socialist experiment.

Allow me to speak for my fellow Californians and say "Thank you America! Please send more cash."

[calcowgirl]

We get to kill a canary at the ballot box today.
Stay tuned.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

voters are so disgusted with the ineptitude and waste of a state legislature dominated by liberal Democrats that they are poised to vote down a $16 billion tax increase and a slew of propositions allegedly intended to beat back fiscal Armageddon.

Warning to Awnuld and the asshat Democrats!: 1) NO 2) NO 3) NO 4) NO 5) NO 6) NO

[Welcome2thejungle]

This country did NOT, I repeat NOT learn from California’s misguided big spending, high taxing ways. Let me introduce:

Exhibit A: BHO

Exhibit B: The U. S. Congress.

Sacramento is no worse than Washington these days.

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[mvpel]

Once, California was known as the "Golden State." No more. It's struggling with a fiscal crisis of epic proportions. And voters are so disgusted with the ineptitude and waste of a state legislature dominated by liberal Democrats that they are poised to vote down a $16 billion tax increase and a slew of propositions allegedly intended to beat back fiscal Armageddon.

And yet, the Obama Administration is poised to adopt California's draconian emissions and fuel economy standards.

[mvpel]

In California, the voters don't choose the politicians, the politicians choose the voters. Don't be too hard on Californians.

Here's Congressional District 36 in 2000:

[WilliamofCarmichael]

I noticed that I misspelled the governor's name. It of course is Schwarzenkennedy.

Several of us here have opined for years that the greatest patriotic act for California is to crash and burn. The disaster would be the alarm that the 1960s Marxist street rabble and their ideological issue (The Rat Party formerly the traditional Democratic Party) is at war against our America.

(I'd prefer an economic crash and not the falling off into the ocean. I cannot swim.)

[phillyfanatic]

Let us pray that the lemmings in Ca. vote NO on all the hidden tax hikes. I did. I want the Leg. to actually sweat bullets trying to cut every socialist program that they have enacted. I want welfare, rights for illegals, phoney health care programs all cut. Every last one of them.

[Buckeye McFrog]

the only lesson that Liberals will learn from this is that their plans only go awry when those darn pesky voters get to have any say in the matter...