I don't know why
Somebody laid the mountains low
While the town got high....
Here's a Paul Krugman analysis of the financial debacle called California.
And in true Krugman fashion, the blame doesn't lie with democrats who've controlled the state for the last millennium, it lies with minority party who doesn't have enough power to open a lemonade stand.
For California, where the Republicans began their transformation from the party of Eisenhower to the party of Reagan, is also the place where they began their next transformation, into the party of Rush Limbaugh. As the political tide has turned against California Republicans, the party’s remaining members have become ever more extreme, ever less interested in the actual business of governing.Read the rest of this farce here....And while the party’s growing extremism condemns it to seemingly permanent minority status — Mr. Schwarzenegger was and is sui generis — the Republican rump retains enough seats in the Legislature to block any responsible action in the face of the fiscal crisis.
Will the same thing happen to the nation as a whole?
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There are two type of liberals: Those 98% of liberals who truly have good hearts and think that a bigger, centralized, more powerful government can be benevolent and better for society. Then there are those 2% liberals who advocate such a system because it means more power for them.
Niether group can articulate a vision beyond just hate for republicans. Think about it. What specific policy vision has been articulated by the left since taking power these last 2.5 years, other than to profess hate for republicans.
The 98% group professes hate for republicans because the republicans had been in power and seen as an impediment to "progressivism". The second group hates republicans because Hate of Republicans is THE only plank in the platform they dare publicize.
And no more is this on display than in California. The left dominates all three branches of government (Arnold the "republican" is pushing for the democrat fiscal plan and therefore may as well be a dem). But what is the complaint coming from the left? It's the republicans??? And they say this with a straight face???
I can't blame them though. I mean think about it. What great social "achievement" can liberals point to as a success. Every single place where democrats/libs rule is 1) a craphole of crime, drugs and poverty 2) running a budget deficit in the billions 3) chasing residents to republican districts faster than the moving trucks can be loaded up.
If I were a liberal in the 2% group I guess I'd have no choice but to manufacture an enemy for the 98% to hate because I would have no real ideas.
The big question is, how long will the 98% group patiently wait for something deeper than "we hate republicans" as the main policy idea? I suspect it will last until the welfare checks start bouncing---which might not be far off in CA.
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