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.
