The is an article this morning in the Sacramento Bee where is talks about how the top priority of newly sworn-in State Senate President Darrell Steinberg is to expand the role of government in California, moving the responsibility for the health of children from their parents to the state government.

Are you kidding, Senator?

This concept of yours is a major problem for a whole slew of reasons. But let’s start with the biggies.

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The is an article this morning in the Sacramento Bee where is talks about how the top priority of newly sworn-in State Senate President Darrell Steinberg is to expand the role of government in California, moving the responsibility for the health of children from their parents to the state government.

Are you kidding, Senator?

This concept of yours is a major problem for a whole slew of reasons. But let’s start with the biggies.

First and foremost – California government doesn’t have remotely enough money for existing programs (remember, there is the pesky issue of past overspending that has left us with a hole of well over $14 billion in just this budget year alone?). At a time when we need to be figuring out how to reduce the size and scope of state government, as a time when we need to figure which of our which responsibilities that Big Brother (California State Government) needs to return back to individuals and families, only committed liberal ideologues like… Read More

If you turn to page 15 of the Governor’s recommendations coming from his California Performance Review that he undertook after winning the recall election in 2003 with a mandate to “blow up the boxes,” you will see that one of the Commissions that the Governor had slated for elimination was the Integrated Waste Management Board. These days, the California Performance Review and the Governor’s proposed revisions to state government that were part of its roll-out are just growing electronic dust, occasionally linked-to by an online columnist like myself. Never mind the fact that had the Governor achieved the revisions he sought, as opposed to a wholesale abandonment of the whole project, our budget deficit issues would be significantly mitigated.

Well, we’ve certainly come a long was in just five short years. There is nothing left of the Governor (1.0) who was swept into office after a recall of former Governor Gray Davis was successfully qualified after Davis outrageously hiked the state car tax.… Read More

If you turn to page 15 of the Governor’s recommendations coming from his California Performance Review that he undertook after winning the recall election in 2003 with a mandate to “blow up the boxes,” you will see that one of the Commissions that the Governor had slated for elimination was the Integrated Waste Management Board. These days, the California Performance Review and the Governor’s proposed revisions to state government that were part of its roll-out are just growing electronic dust, occasionally linked-to by an online columnist like myself. Never mind the fact that had the Governor achieved the revisions he sought, as opposed to a wholesale abandonment of the whole project, our budget deficit issues would be significantly mitigated.

Well, we’ve certainly come a long was in just five short years. There is nothing left of the Governor (1.0) who was swept into office after a recall of former Governor Gray Davis was successfully qualified after Davis outrageously hiked the state car… Read More

Yesterday in their Capitol Alert blog, the Sacramento Bee reported that Chris Kahn, the Deputy Chief of Staff for Governor Schwarzenegger and Director of Legislative Affairs will be departing his post at the end of the year. This departure is the second extremely high-profile Republican in the Governor’s inner circle to step away in just a couple of months, with former Cabinet Secretary Dan Dunmoyer having recently left as well. In the Bee’s blurb about Kahn’s departure, they mention that he was “unavailable for comment” for his story.

Well, I thought that I would try to help fill in the blanks for those wondering what Chris “would have said” had he actually spoken out on his departure. Readers should understand that I have not spoken to him about this, and that this is an editorial on my part, presuming what Chris might say (if he could):

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Yesterday in their Capitol Alert blog, the Sacramento Bee reported that Chris Kahn, the Deputy Chief of Staff for Governor Schwarzenegger and Director of Legislative Affairs will be departing his post at the end of the year. This departure is the second extremely high-profile Republican in the Governor’s inner circle to step away in just a couple of months, with former Cabinet Secretary Dan Dunmoyer having recently left as well. In the Bee’s blurb about Kahn’s departure, they mention that he was “unavailable for comment” for his story.

Well, I thought that I would try to help fill in the blanks for those wondering what Chris “would have said” had he actually spoken out on his departure. Readers should understand that I have not spoken to him about this, and that this is an editorial on my part, presuming what Chris might say (if he could):

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It isn’t really clear if a candidate for Governor can suffer a “significant campaign setback” if they aren’t even a candidate yet, but that is what has happened to ersatz Gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay who, relatively new to the GOP, has had high profile roles with the Presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney (with whom she was once a co-worker) and Senator John McCain – with the confirmation that her top two most prominent advisors are no longer engaged professionally on Whitman’s behalf.

For most of this year, Whitman has been rumored to be looking at a run for Governor, and she moved quite a bit past the rumor stage with a series of meetings around the state with GOP stakeholders, where she made it clear that she was, indeed, contemplating a run. In fact, she reached out to bring on some pretty highly respected political operatives – perhaps some of the best – in… Read More

This just in from Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, who recently announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2010, for the seat currently occupied by Democrat Barbara Boxer…

I’ve opposed all the mega-billion dollar bailouts – they reward failure and bad decisions and leave us and our children to pay the trillion dollars in new debt. And, if you think this out of control spending is bad now with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barbara Boxer in Congress and President Bush in the White House, just wait until Obama is President and even more liberal Democrats run Congress.

Now we hear about the new Congressional visitor center, the one Harry Reid said would allow his colleagues to no longer have to… Read More