Comments on: Revolt

By: Snackeater

Snackeater — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:22:46 +0000

Anderson Cooper’s use of the word “teabagging” was poorly thought through. Interesting. Even more interesting though is that every liberal commentator and political hack used the same term–and they all had that little smirk on their face when they said it, and giggled uncontrollably afterward. When I heard them say it, my reaction was “Huh? WTF is teabagging?” Which was the same reaction as most of the conservative guests.

So I guess my question is, why is it that only the liberal men knew so much about gay men’s sexual practices?

By: RonF

RonF — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:22:57 +0000

California will go bankrupt

Good. Let it. Don’t give them a federal dime. I didn’t get represented in their decisions regarding what programs they should have, why should I have to pay for them.

Hm. That’s a bit verbose. Let’s try editing it a tad. Say, how does “No Taxation Without Representation” sound?

California goes bankrupt. Let them then cut programs to match their income. And yes, the voters of California are definitely at fault. I think in the “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me” cycle California voters are in the “Fool me 8 times” part. People have to experience the consequences of their actions before they’ll actually start facing reality and act on it.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:31:42 +0000

Best part of all this? Revealing Colin Powell as the out of touch member of the Wisconsin Avenue cognoscenti that he is. Might be the consensus over loup de mer at Citronelle -- not so much where real people live.

By: Mike M.

Mike M. — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:14:03 +0000

Obama and the Democrats may try to bail out California, but I think the rest of the country will take it very, very poorly.

Personally, I like the idea of bankruptcy and reversion to territorial status. For California and any other state that can’t run its own affairs like adults. Lose your Congressional delegation, get an appointed Governor with complete authority. Ten years after the debts are paid, you can try for statehood again.

Life is hard. Stupidity has a price.

By: California Nightmare « Liberty Street

California Nightmare « Liberty Street — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:42:25 +0000

[...] Neptunus Lex, Megan McArdle rather uncharacteristically nails it: California is completely, totally, irreparably [...]

By: Mike Myers

Mike Myers — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:05:07 +0000

As a California resident of more than 50 years, I marched down to the lightly visited polling place, and cast my vote. I also read this morning’s Los Angeles Times, noting the piece that the state’s voters bear some of the responsibility for this current mess.
A good part of the vote was disgust at Sacramento; a good part of the vote was disgust at the initiative and referendum process. The “yes” people outspent the “no” people 1o to 1. But you can’t fool all of the people all the time–and the initiative advertising process has become so corrupt that even we rubes have figured it out. As to voter responsibility for this, I can only hark back to the recent initiative where Californians committed either $4 billion or $6 billion of taxpayer money to fund stem cell research. Hollywood supplied the funds for the advertising campaign, and we’ll all get to pay for a few folks’ vanity “feel good about myself” boondoggles.

But it is a little bit late in the day for all of that. Obama and his Peronista wolves are lurking at the edge of the political forest, looking for a weakened critter to swoop down on. The Governator is going to fall into their clutches, take the federal money and we’ll have Reconstruction policies in California. As Rahm Emanuel says, “A crisis is a bad thing to waste”. Federal power–or at least Obama power–is all important, and they’ll do what they have to do (using taxpayer money of course) to get it.

I do recall the lyric sung by Juan Peron in the musical “Evita”. He said he could find happiness in Paraguay. Well heckfire, compared to what’s going to happen in California, I could probably find happiness in Paraguay myself–a better alternative.