Here was the first stone you threw after bandying a childish comparison:
Think about it.
As if I hadn't. It was you who condescended and assumed superior knowledge with your reference to the breakup of AT&T as if it were equivalent to the bogus deregulation of the California power market. I showed you how it wasn't a valid comparison. You don't like it.
It's your mentality that needs to be thrown out.
This is why California is in such a mess. You berated me and others and put yourself above those that know issues better than you. So, you expresed the desire to kill the messenger.
Argue with facts and principles. If you can't win on those, change your thinking.
Here was the first stone you threw after bandying a grossly oversimplified comparison:
Think about it.
As if I hadn't.
You leaped in with your ill-considered comment based upon a pithy suggestion I made to Dog Gone which is part of a conversation I have been having with he, SeirraWasp, snopercod, Randita, Robert357, and Ernest_at_the_Beach, among others for over two years now. DG thinks that the power crisis was caused by mere stupidity. I don't.
DG knows, for example, that I effectively predicted that Arnold would resurrect deregulation because the people who wrote Arnold's environmental plan were part of the same crew who manufactured the shortage on which the power crisis was the payoff. Not only that, but he put Brulte on his transition team. So here it is, deregulation, before Arnold has even been sworn in. Gosh, just shocks the hell out of me.
Rather than club DG with an "I told you so," I suggested how a rational transition from the current debacle to a free market could be conducted without bankrupting scads of small businesses, else the power market in California might more resemble the situation in Russia and the employment market even worse. DG negotiates oil and gas deals for a living. He agreed that the suggestions made sense and were, if anything, too aggressive toward a deregulated market such as he enjoys in Texas.
Did you know all that? No, you couldn't, because you weren't in on many of these conversations. It was you who assumed superior knowledge with your reference to the breakup of AT&T as if the initial conditions were equivalent to the bogus deregulation of the California power market in its state of artificial shortage. I showed you how it wasn't a valid comparison. You don't like it.
It's your mentality that needs to be thrown out.
You put yourself above those that have been discussing these issues in detail for two years here without knowing the players. So, you expressed the desire to kill the messenger just like the vicious RINOs who have virtually destroyed the CAGOP by sabotaging conservative campaigns and then claiming they can't win.
Argue with facts and principles. If you can't win on those, change your thinking.