[NormsRevenge]

Tom McClintock

Mr. McClintock is an expert on matters of the State budget and fiscal discipline. He is a Senator in the California State Legislature and ran for Governor in the 2003 recall election. His valuable website is found at www.tommclintock.com

[NormsRevenge]

He is also running for Lt. Gub in '06. Go Tom!

[rellimpank]

Whatever the Governor does in response to the election, it is imperative that he levels with the people on the actual fiscal condition of the state and that he is very clear and uncompromising in presenting the solutions that must ultimately resolve it. And when watered-down and meaningless changes are all that emerge from the legislature, he must resist the temptation to proclaim them as anything more.--

--i.e., the Gobernator needs to do what he should have spent the last two years doing---

[Jibaholic]

California is a lost cause. There are only two kinds of blue states. Those that will soon be red (the great lakes states), and those that will soon go bankrupt after driving out all their productive citizens.

[Grampa Dave]

"The governor ultimately had no alternative than to bring this impasse to a head and appeal directly to the people. He could have maintained a façade of bipartisanship, contented himself to tinker at the margins, put forth pleasing half-measures while the state’s deficit continued to mount – but he chose finally to confront the state’s condition boldly and forthrightly. And he knew that to do so, he had to confront the government unions responsible for that condition."

"Those shoulda-coulda-woulda questions are important ones and I don’t begrudge the pundits who are now raising and answering them. But they should be tempered by Teddy Roosevelt’s observation that, "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again (because there is no effort without error or shortcoming), but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause…”

Most of those so called California conservative critics, who didn't vote and stayed home in a temper tantrum are those who perceive themselves as the Pure Walk on Water Conservatives. They had rather bitch about something in their lunacy than do something about the problem. They spend more time stabbing Arnold and GW in the back than eliminating liberals.

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Most of those so called California conservative critics, who didn't vote and stayed home in a temper tantrum are those who perceive themselves as the Pure Walk on Water Conservatives. They had rather bitch about something in their lunacy than do something about the problem. They spend more time stabbing Arnold and GW in the back than eliminating liberals.

[Wolfstar]

When the next crisis comes, the Governor will find a new appreciation among Californians for what he was trying to do in this election, and a more receptive electorate to do so in the next.

I don't believe this for one minute. Business is leaving this state at an accelerated pace. After nearly 40 years here in Southern California, Nissan North America announced last week that it is moving its national HQ to Tennessee before next September. Toyota is exploring the feasibility of moving its national HQ out of California also. There is now a lot of empty office and commercial space in this locality.

For the first time in at least three years, I saw a for-sale sign in front of a single-family home in a nice area with REDUCED on it.

Hollywood, that basition of limo-Leftists, has been shipping production and jobs to Canada and other states.

Despite these ominous signs, Californians keep sailing along electing Marxists to the legislature in good times and bad.

The recall election did nothing for us except shift the blame from Gray Davis and the Dems.

[lawnguy]

Does the Cal. Governor have the line item veto? If not, maybe the best bet would be to just get angry, and go down fighting.

I guess that one could make the argument that Californians have made their decision, and they will reap what they sow. In the mean time, any state out there with a good business climate is looking more and more attractive to industry and the industrious.

[68 grunt]

... When the next crisis comes, the Governor will find a new appreciation among Californians for what he was trying to do in this election, and a more receptive electorate to do so in the next.

BS ~ when the next crisis comes the ilk will know just what to do to negate any gains by the right.

[Sergio]

I've told my wife that the solution to California's fiscal problems will not come from within the state, but from Wall Street.

When California's bond rating gets to "junk" status, and no one will lend the state money, that's when you'll see change.

Best Regards

Sergio

[calcowgirl]

PING!

McClintock Ping List.
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[b9]

This title is completely misleading. Tom McClintock did NOT call it the "not so'special election' ". The content was lifted from this

[freedumb2003]

Tom is the greatest -- in print and on radio.

In person and on camera he has a wierd sort of unfocused gaze that is disconcerting.

I think that is what is holding him back. But I could be wrong. And I hope I am.

[b9]

The subhead of this article is provably NOT written by Senator McClintock.

I just received this statement from the editor:

The subheading was our subhead 'cause we sure thought things didn't turn out so special...

[b9]

Thank you!

[Hostage]

Yes indeed, he does summarize it so well.

It's all too clear now.

Arnold papered over the problems of the state with $15 billion in borrowed money. Arnold led the people to believe that everything was just dandy. Some sort of artificial recovery emerged in California and the electorate forgot the underlying reality.

McClintock is on mark. The time to have done those reforms was year one, not year two or three.