Peggy has a good closing paragraph:
“But Republicans should beware, and even mute their mischief. We’re in the middle of an actual disaster. When they win back the presidency, they’ll probably get the big California earthquake. And they’ll probably blow it. Because, ironically enough, of a hard core of truth within their own philosophy: when you ask a government far away in Washington to handle everything, it will handle nothing well. “
This is an argument against RINOs. But she doesn’t know it.
In response to “Peggy”:
Back in the 1990’s, SoCal had a high magnitude earthquake, not The Big One, but big enough, the Northridge Quake.
We were fortunate to have a competent governor, Pete Wilson, who offered incentives to contractors to get the I-10, which had collapsed, up and running in an amazingly short time.
There was little of the post-Katrina type complaints about his efforts, in fact there were kudos.
Compare that to “Rebuilding LA” after the Rodney King riots, under the auspices of Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, a Democrat.
Sorry Peggy, there is the historic record, and the Democrats are lousey executives.