[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[nathanbedford]

There are three posts which anticipate the Gingrich article:

I draw two lessons from the voters repudiation of the elected class in California.

First, the referendum vote in California is a confirmation of the spirit which animated the tea parties across America. That spirit reflects a profound disillusionment with the fiscal governance of the country. It is a repudiation of excessive spending and it demonstrates that the people are not so foolish as to believe that unrestrained spending can continue without an ultimate reckoning in taxes. Hence, the left wing punditry which disparaged the tea parties as everything from racist to selfish and uninformed is simply wrong. Those who disregard the deeper meaning of the tea parties will find themselves on the same end of the political process where Arnold Schwarzenegger is now so isolated and repudiated.

Second, the referendum in California is the inevitable result of a class of politicians who exploited the producing class to pander for power to the nonproducing class. California has come to the breaking point in which the producing class is unwilling and unable to participate in a government that is so rigged against them. Again, these referenda in California are reflective of our national Commonwealth. Barak Obama and the Democrat party in charge of the national government are in the process of replicating the California experience across the entire nation. In other words, Obama is exploiting the producing class and pandering to the nonproducing class. The tea parties sense this and repudiated this. California has arrived at the breaking point prior in time to the nation as a whole because California has limits on its ability to create money. Despite the evidence of my own eyes as I witnessed the reception Obama received at Notre Dame, I nevertheless believe that the California/tea party mood of repudiation is growing, perhaps for now inchoate and subterranean in character, but liable to spring forth, perhaps on July 4, and visit real fear on to the Washington establishment.

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There are so many parallels to be drawn from the California experience to the Obama power grab. Just as Democrats favored the government workers' unions in California at the expense of the taxpayers, so has Obama expropriated the property of the bondholders of Chrysler to favor the UAW.

The question is when will the national voters react so emphatically as have the California voters? Will the national voters wait until Obama has utterly bankrupted the country? Until he has utterly overturned all our foundations of private property? Until he succeeds in setting beleaguered class, group, or race against its oppressors in government?

Or will he succeed in co-opting institution after institution like our banks, motorcar companies, and healthcare providers until the entire system is utterly seduced and we no longer have a system recognizable as a free-market system or as a democracy or any identifiable group left that is ready to fight for them?

The matter came to a head in California only because there was no longer any way to postpone the reckoning. We are not nearly at that point nationally.

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As the California bail out moves inexorably like a flesh eating bacteria onto the national stage, it offers Republicans an opportunity to halt the Obama juggernaut and save the Republic.

Recall that when Obama moved to bail out improvident mortgagors there was a spontaneous and general reaction by those who had behaved prudently who asked, why should we bail out these grifters? How will the people in Florida, for example, who are paying fantastic premiums for hurricane insurance and exploding property taxes feel when they find that they now must contribute to the folly of California? There will not be a governor or a mayor anywhere in America who does not clamor to get his snout into the trough. Not all the pigs can be equal at this trough and jealousies and resentments will inevitably spread and many will be directed at Obama.

Republicans should seize this real indignation and ignite it.

I was delighted to read on another thread that Mitch McConnell through diligent opposition on the Senate floor has managed to isolate Obama even from his own party on the issue of funding Guantánamo and closing it down. Here is an issue more worthy of a patriots effort even than where to incarcerate these wretches. If we do not save the economy we will have neither Republic, democracy, capitalism nor defense. Republicans need an issue which they can seize and hurl it back into the teeth of the Manchurian Marxist.

Take a stand here, there will be no better issue and no cause more just.

[Oldpuppymax]

Hey Newt! The same thing happened in 1994. Republicans were given a landslide victory. And what did you do with it?? YOU BECAME DEMOCRATS!!! You began confiscating and spending other peoples money in an attempt to purchase power, votes and perpetual re-election. So do us a favor Newt. STFU. As a hypocrite, it is the least you can do, especially over Memorial Day weekend.

[Clintonfatigued]

Could it really be true?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Dick Cheney/John Bolton 2012

[dragnet2]

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.

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?

[ripley]

“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

[bamahead]

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[Landru]

"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."

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