…and they are standing up to Gov Brown:
In their letter, the five Republicans outlined the policy changes they are seeking.
They include pension rollbacks for public employees, further constitutional restrictions on state spending, easing regulations on business, an overhaul of the tax code and an expansion of contracting out government work to private companies.
The senators also suggested that Brown abandon his plans to eliminate redevelopment agencies and tax breaks for companies that hire in depressed regions, saying he should reform the programs instead.
Gil Duran, Brown’s press secretary, dismissed those demands in an e-mail as a “Republican laundry list.”
“These senators have a golden, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to achieve significant reform, but they cannot realistically expect to resolve 30 years of contentious issues in one week,” Duran wrote.
The Republicans acknowledged that they did not expect all their demands to be met, but said Brown had “either rejected or so watered down” their proposals as to make them worthless.
If not now, when? If not here, where? If these “moderate Republicans” that Moonbeam counted on for a bi-partisan figleaf are balking at business-as-usual, then it is time for TEA Party members and other small-government advocates need to back up the CA GOP just as much as they do Gov. Walker. CA has some of the meanest public employee unions in the nation (Teachers and Prison Guards) and I suspect they will start targeting the CAGOP Five if they believe any headway is being made on their agenda.
I was listening to Prager yesterday and he was being VERY “unhelpful” in saying if the GOP candidates are to fail because they refuse to be liberals to the Dems lefties, then so be it. He’d rather fail on principle then just win to be in power if nothing is to change.
He also interviewed Dick Morris […] and they both put away the canard that one cannot use the “s-word” (socialist) to describe Dem/Obama policies. The Left has again grabbed the framing of the issue asserting one cannot use “socialist” unless 100% of the economy is controlled by the Government — but that didn’t exist even in the USSR (lots of officially ignored small businesses and underground economy). Morris pointed out that under Obama the US government has gone from controlling about 34% of the economy to about 45% — same as France, Germany and Greece.
The Republicans can stand up all they want but California is well past the Thatcher point and has to be considered occupied territory at this point. California has squandered its patrimony and is wall-to-wall parasites, with many leaving every day, some taking their wealth-producing habits with them, some spreading the liberal virus to other states. As Clubber Lang put it, the only prediction for the fight at this point is “pain”.
I just finished The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism and the dewd came up with a good distillation of what all the socialisms (Soviet, European, Chinese, Nazi) have in common: centralized planning of the economy.
Doesn’t matter if all the means of production are technically owned by the State or if the State controls companies through intimidation or regulation or whether the leadership is elected or selected: it all comes down to the Grand Ideas of a few self-appointed geniuses who will mold and shape the economy according to their own lights.
Which, such a thing is always doomed to failure, just a the perpetual-motion machine: doesn’t matter how clever or determined or well-intentioned you are, the machine will always eventually wind down.
Get outta town! That’s why I refused to vote for Whitman.
This Prager fella must be some kinda purist or something.
Hey, c’mon folks – can’t you see that Jer is tap dancing as hard as he can?
It’s Cali. As much as I hate to say it, it’s gone. I wouldn’t donate my cats litter to even the stunchiest staunch staunch of them.
Sorry Darleen, The dust bowl caused by the bait fish was the final nail in your states coffin.
I’m inclined to agree with Blitz (and I have family there). The band has been playing “Nearer My God to Thee” since January.
Blitz
I know, and I don’t blame the “on your head Cali’s” attitude.
If nothing else, I want state conservatives to go down swinging and take as many leftists with ’em as possible, not kneeling with their necks voluntarily and meekly exposed.
FTFM.
Wasn’t it a Federal judge who imposed that stupidity?