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California Democrats wrap up state budget, flex supermajority power
Sacramento Bee ^ | June 16, 2013 | By David Siders and Jim Sanders

Posted on 06/16/2013 5:28:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

As the state Senate finished voting Saturday on a bill to extend a tax on managed care plans, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg told reporters at the back of the room, "That is what's called a supermajority."

Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to sign the spending plan before the next fiscal year begins July 1.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: abortion; bankrupt; california; darrellsteinberg; deathpanels; jerrybrown; obamacare; socialism; socialists; supermajority; youownit; zerocare
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1 posted on 06/16/2013 5:28:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

def: Supermajority, the ability to flush ones own self down the toilet along with everyone else.


2 posted on 06/16/2013 5:29:44 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (yesterdays conspiracies are todays truths)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More like superstupidity...


3 posted on 06/16/2013 5:31:44 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So glad I left that state.


4 posted on 06/16/2013 5:37:51 AM PDT by Kozak (The Republic is dead. I do not owe what we have any loyalty, wealth or sympathy.)
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To: Kozak

My wife is in California now with her girlfriends drinking wine and good food in San Fran Sicko. She is having a good time but said there is no way I would do well in that state. The good news is while she and her two girlfriends were eating at a restaurant yesterday, they were scanning for wifi to post some pictures of their trip to Facebook. Their search disclosed two open networks and a host of others which included “ImpeachObama”. I guess the State is not a total lost cause!


5 posted on 06/16/2013 5:50:42 AM PDT by Michigan Bowhunter (Patriots needed!)
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I guess the State is not a total lost cause!

Yes it is.

There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of actual conservatives left in the People's Republic of Kalifornication. However, they are hopelessly outnumbered by tens of millions of leftist lunatics.

CA is a lost cause. Conservatives should move to a battleground state. The twin benefits would be to make those states more conservative and the lower population count would deprive CA of a few congressional seats to push leftist nonsense on the rest of us.

6 posted on 06/16/2013 6:09:46 AM PDT by EricT. (Another Muslim terrorist. Who saw that coming?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
California's lost...finished...kaput.Let them form a group of like-minded states (a dozen,perhaps) that would be called the Communist States of America.
7 posted on 06/16/2013 6:11:10 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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To: Kozak

I agree with your tagline.


8 posted on 06/16/2013 6:12:54 AM PDT by EricT. (Another Muslim terrorist. Who saw that coming?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I do wish CA conservatives would migrate to and expand their numbers in states like Nevada and Colorado, possibly saving those states from liberal hell.


9 posted on 06/16/2013 6:15:22 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
California was totally lost when they passed Motor-Voter around 1997. Anyone can vote there. In the 2004 election, I even offered my DL for proof that I am who I say. I was told I didn't need an ID. I suspect the ‘amazing Dem ground game’ includes identifying those who have not voted and the will then get ‘people’ to the polls to vote for those absent voters. We left a few years ago...miss the beauty and the activities, but not the crime, the suffocating oversight or the overwhelming taxation.
10 posted on 06/16/2013 6:23:27 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy)
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To: originalbuckeye

You need an ID to buy decongestants but not to vote. It is an upside down world.


11 posted on 06/16/2013 6:26:31 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is Kalifornia too big to fail?


12 posted on 06/16/2013 6:28:58 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh boy we get more IOU’s,


13 posted on 06/16/2013 6:30:49 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: ronnie raygun

I hope this sh!tass has been watching the “Walking Dead”....he’s gonna need some tips on how to survive in and entitlement-denied “Walker” environment brought on by corrupt bankruptcy.


14 posted on 06/16/2013 6:48:22 AM PDT by Gaffer
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“CA is a lost cause. Conservatives should move to a battleground state.”

But, but, but CA is where FR is home based! CA will come back eventually, because Marxism does not work. I just love all you “freepers” who seemingly “enjoy” trashing California. A bad day here is better than the best day in the state where you live. And besides, you are not going to defeat the Marxists by moving to a “red state,” because they are there already working to destroy your place too. It’s a good thing people like you were not around when the country was founded, because it would not exist. You really should be ashamed to spout this crap.


15 posted on 06/16/2013 8:43:51 AM PDT by vette6387
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Here’s a question for you: Why doesn’t (Northern and Eastern) California try to secede from the South and Coast of the state like Northern Colorado is trying to do?


16 posted on 06/16/2013 9:30:02 AM PDT by JSDude1 (Is John Boehner the Neville Chamberlain of American Politics?)
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To: vette6387

Tell it to the tax man. You pay dearly for it.


17 posted on 06/16/2013 9:46:02 AM PDT by JohnD9207 (Isn't freedom worth fighting for?)
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To: vette6387

I grew up in CA. You’re full of crap. CA is done and the only way it will ever come back is if there is some kind of plague that kills off 70% of its leftist residents.

BTW, when I lived in CA, I considered it a good day when a member of my family was not a victim of some crime. While I lived there, I was violently assaulted by two thugs while just walking down the street minding my own business, had my watch stolen at knife point, my house was broken into 3 times, had a truck stolen, another work truck broken into and a few thousand dollars worth of tools stolen, my daughters were sexually assaulted, my mailbox vandalized, my bike stolen, my truck mangled by a hit and run driver, and I witnessed the house across the street from me get shot up by two SUV’s full of Asian gangbangers. Since I moved out of that hellhole of a police state 10 years ago, I haven’t been the victim of a single crime.

One more thing: I suggested moving to a battleground state, not a red state. Conservative votes are wasted in CA, but they can do some good elsewhere in this country.

But then I guess you never heard of picking your battles. Your position seems to be like those officers in WW1 that sent wave after wave of thousands of men into machine gun barrages.


18 posted on 06/16/2013 11:26:39 AM PDT by EricT. (Let me know when you've got a few million citizens ready for an armed march on D.C.)
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To: vette6387

A few things I can do in FL that I couldn’t in CA:

1. Buy the gun of my choice and walk out of the store with it that day.

2. Buy a semi-auto rifle with removable magazine.

3. Afford to live within 15 minutes of a beach.

4. Swim in the ocean for a few hours without getting hypothermia.

5. Get a concealed carry permit.

6. Drive a car without smog-Nazis requiring a $100 inspection regularly.

7. Earn an income without sending a percentage to the state (no state income tax).

8. Only pay a 6% to 7% sales tax (depending on the county).

9. Keep a loaded gun in my car.

10. Ride a motorcycle without a helmet (even though I wouldn’t do it, I am free enough to choose).

11. Live without a police helicopter hovering over the neighborhood every night.

12. Vote for a conservative candidate and have a reasonable chance that candidate will win.

13. Go hunting and not worry about stumbling into a pot grow guarded by heavily-armed gangbangers.

14. Go hunting without my neighbors thinking I’m some kind of evil heartless bastard.

Just a few off the top of my head.


19 posted on 06/16/2013 12:00:05 PM PDT by EricT. (Let me know when you've got a few million citizens ready for an armed march on D.C.)
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To: JSDude1

My problem is the conservative southern burbs of Denver/Colo Springs cant go with Northern Colorado because we are not contiguous with them. Colorado needs a plan to kick out the liberal urban areas and leave the remaining conservative parts of the state alone!


20 posted on 06/16/2013 12:04:42 PM PDT by Mom MD (A million people attended Obamas inauguration. 14 of them actually missed work)
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