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After voters in San Jose and San Diego, two of California's largest cities, rolled back public employee pensions in Tuesday's election, pressure is mounting on Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature to take similar action to deal with financial crises that are crippling state and local governments. But don't expect politicians in California to attack the collective bargaining rights of public unions as they did in Wisconsin, experts said Wednesday. The Democratic Party controls both houses of the California Legislature and all of the statewide offices, and left-leaning politicians have little incentive to crack down on labor unions that are...

Blue Dogs got a warning shot across the bow...The bluest of blue states, and a deep pocketed incumbent Govenor who spent $28 million dollars and brought it Biden, Clinton 2x, and Obama 3x, gets sent home by Republican Chris Christie....

I titled this thread "Tale of Two Protests" because what I saw in Washington DC on September 12, 2009 illustrated a vast difference in liberal versus conservative protest content, values, and execution. To me, one of the most amazing aspects of this protest by conservatives was the character in a manner in which individuals expressed themselves. It was nearly impossible to find two signs that were exactly the same. There were many signs that expressed the same themes, same concepts, same bits of art, and sometimes even the same phrases. But with the exception of 20 or 30 signs that...