Albert Einstein once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again, each time hoping for a different result. Apparently accepting that definition as a way of doing business, our state Legislature has excelled at repeating the same failed missteps, oblivious to the damage inflicted on California, whose well being it is charged to protect. In 2003, faced with an enormous budget deficit and an unprecedented flight of businesses, capital and people from the Golden State, the Democratic majority in Sacramento performed the legislative equivalent of dousing a fire with gasoline and passed Senate Bill 2, imposing a...