Posted on 05/22/2009 5:35:30 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
Americans should look carefully at the anti-politician, anti-government mood exhibited in California this week. Just as Proposition 13 and the anti-tax movement of 1978 were the forerunners of the Reagan presidential victory, so the results of Tuesday's vote are a harbinger of things to come.
The repudiation of the California establishment in the series of initiative defeats could hardly have been more decisive. Five taxing and spending measures were rejected by 62.6 to 66.4 percent of the voters. That is a consistent majority of enormous potential. An even larger majority, 73.9 percent, approved the proposition limiting elected officials' salaries when there is a deficit.
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.
The elites ridiculed or ignored the first harbinger of rebellion, the recent tea parties. While it will be harder to ignore this massive anti-tax, anti-spending vote, they will attempt to do just that.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
...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!
Newt likes to talk to himself alot. Don’t trust him as far as you can throw him.
And Gov. Sarah Palin, who cut her state’s budget by 30% this week without breaking a sweat, is poised to reap the benefit.
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The really sad thing is that 76% didn’t even care enough to show up and vote....
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I wish Newt had paid attention to the smaller government tide when he was Speaker.
What a bunch of Dim Bulbs.
Considering that had these people shown up all of these measures would have passed I fail to see how this is a bad thing.
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.
Ahh, Newt sayin this...didn’t think it was WaPo...I am sure they are shocked SHOCKED at the CA vote results.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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