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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 ...
If they themselves must go, they are ready to pull the temple down with them."
From the preface to The Vampire Economy - Doing Business Under Fascism by Gunter Reiman, September 1939
Then look again at the 62 percent-plus majority in California in favor of smaller government and lower taxes.
In the great tradition of political movements rising against arrogant, corrupt elites, there will soon be a party of people rooting out the party of government. This party may be Republican; it may be Democratic; in some states it may be a third party. The politicians have been warned. ____________________________________________________________ Here, he pretty much nails it.
The level of arrogance of those in government is being balanced by the level of utter contempt of government, by the people.
You read 54?
Then you ask this?
lol...
Get lost.
Proposition 187 had been a mainly Republican effort, but even some prominent national Republicans opposed it as being bad for their party. Others quietly distanced themselves from anti-immigrant talk. One such politician was George W. Bush who successfully ran for governor of Texas in 1996 on a platform sympathetic to immigrants. Bush got a large share of the Hispanic vote both then and in his successful bid for the U.S. presidency in 2000.
And tried in 2006 to ram "comprehensive immigration reform" through with the help of other Washingtonians such as McCain and Kennedy.
Certainly cynicism at inner party hyprocrisy and elitism contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union, the interior counterpart to Reagan's exterior pressure.
"As long as they pretend to serve us, we pretend to support them."
They literally burned the ballots and declared a free election of the people, illegal.
The results of that epic government intrusion is quite evident from Sacramento to North Carolina.
Meantime, you are one of the people of California, and, as we all know, the people have the kind of government they deserve. You Californians owe all Americans a big apology for allowing this to happen.
Now you've got the winning ticket!.... except a little reversal is necessary... John Bolton/Dick Cheney 2012
“The Rising Anti-Government Tide”
It’s a shame that more than fifty percent of the “electorate” feel “powereful” when these people are in office;
Rising anti-government tide? Don’t bet on it. Look for Democrat majorities to be cemented into place for a long time to come.
IMHO
We got tax cuts, which increase tax revenuew, but the GOP never even stopped the growth of government, let alone shrunk it. Newt IMO got too wrapped up in his new found celebrity status to be able to get anything done, and too many Republicans believe in a cheaper and better welfare state.
Besides, welfare reform has not even scratched the surface in even slowing the growth of the social malignancies that the welfare state has unleashed. We never needed welfare reform. We needed welfare abolition.
Excellent find. I’ll have to dig that one up. Books from that era contain insights that just aren’t taught today.
And we sure seem to be going down that road, aren’t we?
bumpers !!!
bump again for a reminer to check this article out later!
reminDer!!
HA!!
Oh Newt, we knew you well but considering you said the above?
It's virtually guaranteed the GOP will swing a hard 180* in the opposite direction.
They've already started visa vi attacking the two lone remaining conservatives Dick Chaney & Rush, don'tcha know you're next? ~eh, Mr. Steele? ;^)
You da bomb, Shelby! LOL
THAT’s GOT to be the first honest political reporting in the Compost since the 1950’s.....
Don’t forgot the arrogant, lying, biased media whores. We hate them too.
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