California Republicans Oust Their Own Leader to Derail State Budget Settlement
Once again, the Party of No flexes its minority muscle!
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A delicate budget fix crafted by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders was on the brink of collapse early Wednesday after Republicans in the Senate ousted their leader. The late-night coup could derail already strained budget talks by requiring them to renegotiate with a new Republican leader.
The current package containing billions in tax hikes, spending cuts and borrowing took leaders more than three months to put together as the state tries to pass a midyear budget fix and avoid fiscal calamity.
Lawmakers viewed the leadership change as a major setback after they fell short by just one GOP vote, but Democratic leader Darrell Steinberg said he didn't want to speculate what it would mean for the package.
"We're after one reasonable person who puts California first," Steinberg said as Republicans voted to remove Sen. Dave Cogdill.
Good luck with that, Mr. Steinberg.
Holy dogshit first time in 2years!
Kansas is paying with 'scrip' too. No jobs, no salaries, no taxes = no $$.
Graduates looking for jobs getting them rescinded.
http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com/
is that it is Californians who will pay the price for these republican/obstructionist antics, and the Democrats will not lay the blame squarely at their feet. You'd think after all the damage done by the 'thugs in Ca and across the country, the Dems would grow a pair and start calling a spade a spade...
I hope they keep these tactics up until every last rational American knows exactly what kind of political party they are. They'd rather cheer for their country's failure so they might have a chance at the next election cycle. It's going to blow up in their faces.
And if I were site admin, I'd ban anyone posting FIRST! messages. Grow up.
That America hasn't already descended into an Idiocracy...if it has...it won't matter what the GOP does.
And for your second comment...Ah let us have a LITTLE bit of fun! What's the harm?
WHAT'S THE HARM?!?!?!!?
It means the terrorists have won.
Whenever I posted first, I won friends, and influenced people, and was the center of attention at many dinner parties.
Them turrists done won!
Back in '00!
And liberalicious...it's true..works for me every time...why, just look at the first poster on the latest thread. };)>
Piss off!
Are having buyers remorse, after they let the GOP recall Grey Davis?
Seems to me that Cali's been goin down the shitter since then.
why the party that was the majority party for so long always got what they wanted, and now that they are the minority party they get everything they want?
does it not?
It is interesting that a party that is so against unionization is using their cabal for its collective bargaining power.
- All for them, and them for them!
..the new majority party is unwilling to take them to the proverbial woodshed. If a parent fails to discipline an unruly child, that parent deserves everything he/she has coming.
Were there colective testicles love in some hideous accident?
They know that they're all guilty of crimes against the citizenry . . mostly fraud.
Republicans replaced Cogdill with Sen. Dennis Hollingsworth, R-Murietta, whom they saw as more capable of resisting tax increases.
They mean to drive the van into the ditch.
So, do they need a Republican in addition to Cogdill?
How many weeks of Iraq war costs would cover the deficit in California?
10.4 Billion per month so about 4 months would dothe trick.
But that is outrageous to think that we are $40 Billion in debt in CA. Vote them all OUT.
After Enron really screwed over California they ousted some leaders. Has everyone seen Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room documentary. The killings to cover up that crime. We really are stupid as a society to let these people get away with their crimes.
of the official 'party of the super-rich'. They aren't concerned with the votes of the little guy right now, as they know that their billionaire owners will supply them with ample cash to spread lies about their actions come election time. They don't care about the majority, they care about preserving the wealth of people who are at the root of our current crisis. Super-rich leeches created this problem by buying government at all levels, and getting that same government to 'insure' their theft with bullshit regulation, and mafia-style economic extortion.
People who work for a living should be marching in the streets at the ripoff that has and is being perpetrated against them.
Let the rich, greedy, un-American bastards eat their 'paper' losses. Why should working stiffs pay off their market 'gambling' debts? Let them take their marbles and go elsewhere if they don't like it.
ABout a system where if a person has a net worth of a certain amount, they would not be allowed to elected office. I mean, if you want the perks of being rich, there needs to be some kind of down side. For the most part, the wealthy in this country are not trustworthy. I know this system would never work out in practice, but I thought I'd throw it out there.
Were very concerned about the influence of the wealthy and powerful corporations on our Democracy. The modern GOP is nothing more than a rabid version of the Federalists. They simply despise the fact that 'lower caste' people have a say in their destiny. They only tend to these people long enough to get their votes, and then they are off doing the work of their billionaire paymasters.
And yes, many Dems haven't been much better. But at least they're starting to remember who they really represent.
Okay, at least some of them.
I got my torches and pitchforks ready.
They may as well look for a dog that shits chocolate.
A Democrat will go before the people and say they have cut California's budgets as far as they can without really hurting real people. A Republican will go before the people and say there is billions of waste in the state government and the tax payers shouldn't have to pay for the good times that government workers and programs are having. The ill informed voters want to believe that there is an easy painless fix to our problems. For years and years every election cycle instead of budgeting for big projects there has been bond issues spending billions on every ballot. The debt service on all of those bonds have eaten away at any extra money that the state might have saved here and there. I just don't think the Republicans will suffer for any of this mess. They sill have the biggest megaphones of the media.
When Gingrich and the House Republicans played budget chicken during the Clinton years and temporarily shut down the Federal government, didn't it totally backfire on them?
As I recall, many people were appalled and the Republicans were largely seen as childish obstructionists... IIRC, the incident helped stall out the popular momentum gained from the "Contract with America" / "Republican Revolution" in 1994 and helped Clinton pick up his second term in '96.
President, and now they turn on him, because he's not doing things their way. And they remove their guy who wants to help fix stuff.
Now they're eating their own. Nice one. And they can lay the blame at Mr Shriver's door. It's not the first time a shitty actor has turned into a shitty Gov of CA and proceeded to wreck the place.
Remember when you could get a higher education for free in California?
me-oww!
Howard Jarvis is giggling derisively from the grave...
I remember my mean gramma talking about all the assholes in her retirement community (in Lancaster, where a lot of actors from the early days were living). She said there was a group of giggly old bags who were just gaga over Ronnie, he'd been soo nice and polite to one of them when she had a part in one of his movies. She had told mean gramma he was so cute. "I don't want a 'cute' governor," she snapped at the former Mack Sennett Bathing Beauty. "I want a governor who knows what the hell it is he's doing!"
Too bad that was one of the few times that hound from hell did not get her way.
me-oww!
who would bring proudly bring down the rest of us to prove their power.
I for one am glad the GOPukes in Cal do not possess nukes or other WMD.
But they're doing just fine...
This has been the goal of the Republican Party for a long time. They want the government to fail so they can go back in time and have a Lord class and a serf class.
We already live in a feudal state.
Most just don't know it.
Yet.
Wait until more peeps get laid off in order to prop up stock prices and dividends.
It's the sinking ship principle in reverse; woman and children last, rich white guys first.
California voters are always voting for stupid unfunded initiatives. Most of them are for dumb things like building more prisons or increasing prison sentences. A note to all the stupid voters in California, that money doesn't magically arrive in boat-loads from Shangri-La. It comes out of the general fund. Now, the state is broke. Boo-hoo-hoo... place the blame where it squarely lies, at the feet of the dumb voters of California. They are getting exactly what they voted for. The initiative process is the dumbest thing ever invented. It allows lobbyists to completely bypass the legislative process, hence any fiscal responsibility. People are stupid. They will vote for any shiny initiative with mindless fanaticism based upon a 30 second commercial.
Ouch!
But true...
The voters of California put a movie actor with no political experience, hoping that he would kick ass like he did in the movies. Well, movies aren't like real life, sorry.
And Arnold can kiss his presidential aspirations goodbye, like the country would amend the Constitution just for him. What an ego!
It wasn't just him that was pushing to amend the Constitution...other than that, I agree with your post.
Yeah, Jack Slater got his hand busted up pretty good when he tried to put his fist through a REAL window.
Last Action Hero -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj2HBsaOsrM&fe...
And here I used to think that Oklahoma (where I grew up)and Texas Republicans were batshit crazy. They clearly do not hold a candle to those in California. Have to admit though that "Good Hair" Perry seems to be giving them a bit of a run for their money today.
I can attest to that fact...California has MORE than it's share of batshit crazies.
I bet Florida's running pretty close behind.
;)
Besides the crazy ones are the most interesting.
Perhaps, but between NASCAR and BEER, no one here in FL pays much attention.
Cheers.
I plan on waiting for Florida's GOP delegation to start crowing about the largesse "they" are bringing to Florida. Complete wankers, the whole lot of them. If MoveOn and every Democratic challenger for a GOP seat DOESN'T throw this back into their faces they'll be missing a solid gold, platinum-chased opportunity.
Plus the hicks in the central valley.
They don't want to pay any taxes.
Wait until they get their wish and the state government collapses. They will be the first ones to bitch and moan... when there is no water transfer to irrigate the place they live, which is a desert and never meant to support the millions of residences in SoCal. And when the hicks in the valley have to pay the real cost of their crops sans subsidies.
Oh, I know exactly what you mean, and it so damned frustrating! The funny thing is there are plenty of poor hicks who should realize that government programs have been helpful to lots of them, but no, they are like the South in many ways and this is just one of them, griping about welfare, yet collecting themselves just the same...
*says the girl who lives in Kern County and is partly of Texan and Oklahoman stock
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
If we don't keep the GOP on the defensive every minute of every day with the goal of eliminating them from existence, then there is no hope for this Nation. None.
California's economy would be a G10, G11 or G12 country on its own.
Given the size of it, if the RepubliCretins succeed in their short term stupidity (winning the political battle but losing the economic war), California could be the first domino that sees the entire US econmy fail, no matter what ObamaCo do to try and stop it.
And not all that long ago... that we (Calfornia) had the ninth or so largest economy in the world. Didn't take the Limbaugh Pod People long to fix that, did it?
Have you seen what one of them was holding out for? He wants an open primary so he can run against a member of his own party in a general election for Controller because he's TLing out next year and needs a different job if he's going to keep sucking the public teat.
"Public teat" may not be available in your area.
IOKIYAR!
and they never will. THE BIGGEST GOAL for California---> DUMP ARNOLD
and then dump the rest of those greedy asskissing GOP.....
(and then, let's trade Diane in for a REAL Democrat)
Pelosi while they're at it.
Well, we're digging up roots to eat and sleaping in rusted out boxcars, but at least we kept those damn homos from marying each other and having wild, gay, monogamous homo-sex (that we have to keep having dreams about).
would we save if we just did away with the fricking California State Senate altogether? Why do we need a two house legislature in the first place? Just dump every swinging Richard to the curb and be done with it once and for all.
This crap is getting way old here.
Did Rush Limbaugh promise these republicans a vacation to a small island that is known for its young boy prostitution and all the viagra a republican can swallow for their "NO" votes?
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