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.
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“So do us a favor Newt. STFU.”
OK, maybe things didn’t go nearly as well as we conservatives would have hoped in the aftermath of ‘94, but was that *all* Newt’s fault?
“So do us a favor Newt. STFU.”
Is *that* your strategy for the future?
“It was only after Bush was elected that the Republicans went really crazy spending money. In the absence of a single veto from Bush, I have to believe that they were doing exactly what he wanted them to do. It got even worse after the 2004 election....”
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Some of the deficit spending can be blamed on 9/11 and the wars. However, the Rs had 6 years to figure it out on the financial side and did a horrid job. It horrified true conservatives. That said the socialists were unified and determined (as always.)
This is simply not true about Newt. He gave up his seat just after the 1998 elections, and the GOP was still holding the line on spending, which is why the budget actually was balanced when Bush took office in 2001. That is when the GOP turned into big spenders.
Thanks very much.
nathanbedford: Republicans should seize this real indignation and ignite it.As Offenhauser triumphed by packing more horses into every cubic inch, so, too, with your mechanics, nathanbedford.
I add two points:
1) In the American Revolution, a third led, a third opposed, a third were inert.
2) When the people lead, Newt Gingrich will run out in front.
God love 'im.
bttt
I read a pretty good article stating that it’s looking more and more likely that Obama is NOT going to bail out CA.
It stated that CA’s congressional delegation is, while huge, quite divided and fractious and that quite a few of the CA repubs do not want a bailout and that, most importantly, the Dem congresscritters of other states are not going to stand by and watch CA being favored at the expense of everybody else.
Cali dems have been getting subtle and not-so-subtle signals from their colleagues that this is a non-starter.
As for Obama, he can’t do anything major if congress is not there to do it for him.
Actually, he did.
Newt was doing fairly well in the mid '90s and then he went and blew it when he blinked during the "government shutdown" fiasco. He had Clinton right where he wanted him and then he inexplicably caved. I suspect the Democrat DC press corps managed to con Gingrich into believing that Americans "blamed" him for the looming shutdown, as if normal, working, taxpaying, traditional American families actually gave a rat's ass if the government "shut down".
I don't know if Newt can ever fully recover from that major disappointment. My jaw hit the floor in amazement when I heard he had caved. I swear, we were about to win that battle.
Of course, Newt's hand may have been forced by Republican cowards in the House at that time.
Waddaya talking about? It worked out perfect without them.
It seems to be a pattern of every thread, the libel against Gingrich is asserted and it takes a score of posts for the truth to pull its boots on.
I'll take what he's drinking.
Pssst, here's a tip slick. The rats are not much different than those other insiders. You haven't noticed?
FALSE!
The original statement was that one part of the people supported the Revolution, another part was for neither side, and a third part opposed the Revolution. There were no statements or implications that these were equal parts, or thirds. After the Revolution it was unsafe to be a former Tory, and nearly all of them left, going to Canada, Bermuda, the Carribean, and back to England. They made up FAR less than a third of the population.
Hey Newt, if ya ever read this, why didn't ya mention the historical CAL PROP 187, that would have put a halt to tax funded services for illegal aliens?
Remember? The prop that Californians voted overwhelmingly for and it won big.
Remember, the prop where the corrupt federal insiders and their state government co-conspirators burned our ballots and declared our free election illegal.
The results of that massive government intrusion into our free election can now be seen in every city, town and state in this country.
Remember that Newt?
The 1998 retirement mixed with the affair.
There were important matters: Clinton donors Bernard L. Schwartz and C. Michael Armstrong of Loral and Hughes had in 1995 sent the Chinese a 200-page fax which the May 1997 declassified summary of the Defense Department report said "damaged national security".
We had a traitor in the White House and a Speaker perceived as piqued at exiting the rear of Air Force One.
One must not leave the field, but learn from every tactical defeat.
McCain in 2008 after Dole in 1996--where's the learning.
Palin is already doing the deed, but gets nothing from the Washingtonians.
Proposition 187 was passed by the voters on November 8, 1994, to deny public benefits to illegal aliens in California.
Ya, that’s the one Newt failed to mention.
lol
The same prop Bush Jr. bad mouthed while he was spending his Daddy’s money in Texas, while they where ramping him up for political office.
We all know how that worked out.
--the congressman who said the word there was that Democrats saw Impeachment coming for months and wanted to insure it was "about sex, not about treason"--
We send these guys to the nation's capital--make them swear an oath--
--and we get the pettiness of affairs and egoism--
--and treason.
Why don't you remember it, since, as a citizen of California, it is more your responsibility than his.
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