A Rising Anti-Government Tide

WaPo ^ | 5/22/2009 | Newt Gingrich

[SonOfDarkSkies]

...the political machines in California and New York are wrecking the states' economies and driving out successful residents. But the machines don't care because all they want to do is own the wreckage.

Same can be said of Obama!

[x_plus_one]

Newt likes to talk to himself alot. Don’t trust him as far as you can throw him.

[ccmay]

And Gov. Sarah Palin, who cut her state’s budget by 30% this week without breaking a sweat, is poised to reap the benefit.

[Running On Empty]

Marking

[hoosier hick]

The really sad thing is that 76% didn’t even care enough to show up and vote....

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[Daveinyork]

I wish Newt had paid attention to the smaller government tide when he was Speaker.

[Truth29]

One way or another, Obama will bailout California. The Democrat/socialist solution to failing states and fleeing taxpayers is to tax nationally so that you cannot get away from the grasping hand of your own state government no matter where you move to within the US.

[RSmithOpt]

How about anti-irresponsibility, anti-taxation, anti socialism, anti-Mushroom / Manure Treatment Syndrome, instead of anti-government, anti-politician....gotta love the LA Slimes. /sarc

What a bunch of Dim Bulbs.

[pnh102]

The really sad thing is that 76% didn’t even care enough to show up and vote....

Considering that had these people shown up all of these measures would have passed I fail to see how this is a bad thing.

[kabar]

It is a good thing. Only those informed about the issue showed up. If this had been an ACORN issue, voter turnout would have been much higher.

[Adder]

Ahh, Newt sayin this...didn’t think it was WaPo...I am sure they are shocked SHOCKED at the CA vote results.

[Bernard]

An even larger majority, 73.9 percent, approved the proposition limiting elected officials' salaries when there is a deficit.

Even better, elected officils should be paid at all after 2 or 3 terms in the same office. Let's see how much their desire to serve the public holds up when they have to rely on the kindness of strangers in order to buy groceries.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Even better, elected officils should be paid at all after 2 or 3 terms in the same office. Let's see how much their desire to serve the public holds up when they have to rely on the kindness of strangers in order to buy groceries.

That already happens, what with lobbyists money and all. Their salary typically isn't what they live off of, there is already family money, or like John Edwards, ill-gotten money from cushy lawyer jobs where they can afford to go live high on the hog with a paltry 180,000 a year for a term or two.

[unixfox]

This vote is the second great signal that the American people are getting fed up with corrupt politicians, arrogant bureaucrats, greedy interests and incompetent, destructive government.

And when voting doesn't help? As has proven in the past that it doesn't. These people don't care about what the voters think, they are ignoring us on almost every issue. Simply put, THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU OR ME, THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT GETTING RE-ELECTED!

Drastic times DEMAND drastic measures. They brought the fight, I hope they are prepared to lose.

[randita]

This system of ruining communities on behalf of interest groups first appeared in Detroit. Bad government, bad politicians and bad policies drove a city that had, in 1950, the highest per capita income of any large American city to No. 62 in per capita income as of 2007. The population has declined from 1.8 million to fewer than 950,000. Recently, 1,800 homes were sold for under $10,000 each. The human cost of bad politics and bad government in Detroit is staggering.

None of us is insulated from the decay and corruption present in Detroit and other liberal run cities. We all pay the price (literally and figuratively) and because we pay, the degradation continues to exist. It's kind of like we supply the lifeblood to allow the cancer to grow and spread.

[Seruzawa]

Oh BS. There’s no call for less govt. The voters want big govt. They just don’t want to pay for it. Newt’s full of it.

Anyone who thinks that the Kalif voters are going to throw out the Rats is dreaming. They still want their bennies, you bet. They just expect that it be paid for magically.

[Erik Latranyi]

The *REAL* lesson here is that liberals are learning to not trust the voters.

In California, where so many are dependent on the state for assistance, they could not get those same people out to vote for these propositions in an off-year.

I assure you, if these props were run last fall, they would have won by large margins because so many of the riff-raff came out to vote for Obama.

Don’t take solace that some movement is underway here.

[Noumenon]

...the political machines in California and New York are wrecking the states' economies and driving out successful residents. But the machines don't care because all they want to do is own the wreckage.

This author gets it. As I have said, these monsters - and they ARE monsters, every last one of them - would rather rule in hell as barbarians sitting on top of a stinking heap of rubble and corpses than leave the rest of us alone to live in peace. How can I say such a thing? It's because the same ideas that have animated recent history's totalitarians and mass murderers now have a happy home in the White House.

That distant thunder you hear is war. War is coming.

[wastoute]

Newt, I suspect, is like most politicians. If he sees a number of citizens moving briskly down the street he will do anything he can to get to the head of the crowd and seem to be in charge. Hence his commercials on Gorebul Warming and other opportunities he has taken.

The dramatic sales of weapons and ammo tells the story. Millions of us are paying careful attention to what is going on and it is clear to us that the folly of the politicians will end badly. Personally I don't see any other exit. I hope there is one but don't see it. Meanwhile we sit and watch the trip wire (the 2nd A) and wait patiently for the "bus to hit the ditch". We don't need leaders now and folks like Newt can't grasp this. In fact we CAN'T have leaders now for Zero is already ramping up to detain them as terrorists. Be patient and watch.

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