When you are a popular politician, especially one that likes to do "big things" it is always more challenging and thrilling to be on the offense. But in order to be a winning team, you have to not only get excited about your offensive game, but your defensive game as well. The reality is that with this massive fiscal crisis facing California state government, Governor, it is time to bench your 
offensive team, and huddle with your defensive team and figure out how we are going to keep California in the game.
Clearly you have a prefered agenda of items that you would like to pursue, including increasing government’s role in health care, and implementing a lot of regulations to reign in man-made production of carbon dioxide. But the reality is that, with these two agenda items in particular, they are going to make California’s financial crisis worse, not better.
On healthcare, it is simply not credible to say that you are going to create a massive new government program with upwards of 14 billion dollars of new spending, with new regulations on Californians, and on California business, and that this isn’t going to damage our state’s economy and be a drain on already scarce resources. And of course the regulations that are already being mandated on Californians and on California business to comply with the goals set in AB32 are making matters worse, not better, for our state’s fiscal health.
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November 10th, 2007 at 12:00 am
I recently visited the new Lincoln post office. In the 90’s, when Lincoln had a population of 7,000 people the old post office serviced us well; but as the population grew to close to 50,000, the service line went out the door and around the block. So with a population expected to reach 125,000 people, a brand new post office was built. As I drove up to the new post office I noticed a beautiful new building and beautiful landscape… now I knew where our tax money went. I wasn’t prepared for what I saw next… a service line out the door and around the block. You see this brand new post office built for the future had the same number of service windows as the old post office. As I sat in that 45 minute line in that new post office, I could not but wonder why some people think these guys are capable of running our health care system.
November 10th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Again I ask, when will those who foisted this pig-in-a-poke governor be held accountable for their poor judgement?
Its McClintock or bust friends, he’s the only one who has consistently stated that the “King has no clothes.” Either the party ralies around him now or face political irrelevance in 2008 with another defeat.