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To: SmoothSail who wrote (390749)	11/3/2010 4:49:24 AM
From: LindyBill	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 794349

MARK STEYN: 11.45pm In California, Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown have beaten Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman, two Republican candidates tailored for the Golden State, professional, centrist, and without any of that establishment-disturbing Tea Party craziness like certain lady candidates in Delaware and Nevada. And they both lost. I think we're seeing in California the limits of the democratic process in a Big Government state. The statist workforce and the dependency class can outvote the productive class. And, given the number of Californian small businesses who'll be ordering the U-Haul in the morning, that electoral gap will only widen in 2012 and beyond. California is Greece: The arithmetic does not allow for meaningful correction. The question is whether Texas and other non-insane states will volunteer to play Germany to Sacramento's ouzo-swiggers. 1.20am I've been saying for some time that I wanted a big, explicit vote for a serious rollback of spendaholic government, and that, if it turned out as just a slightly-swingier-than-usual midterm, Obama & Co would conclude that the right would have insufficient will to, for example, repeal ObamaCare. With the Senate results, the slightly-swingier-than-usual interpretation will prove attractive to Democrat-media analysts. I was hoping for something more in the nature of wholesale electoral slaughter. We didn't get that. 12.40am Harry Reid has survived. The wave is looking more like a ripple. 12.25am Even by the standards of his fellow Emirs of Incumbistan, John Dingell is impressive. John Dingell Jr has been a Michigan congressman since 1955. For the 22 years before that, his constituents were represented by John Dingell Sr. Between the first Duke of Dingell and the second, the Dingell family has held the seat for a third of the republic's history. I had the great pleasure on Ricochet a few months ago of speaking to Dr Rob Steele, the Republican candidate for Dingell's seat, and had high hopes he might pull off an upset. It's falling a few votes short right now - and the fact that, even in this year, an octogenarian emir can be rewarded for spending over half a century digging America into an ever deeper hole is deeply dispiriting. Then again, it is Ann Arbor and Dearborn." steynonline.com

To: SmoothSail who wrote (390749)	11/3/2010 9:16:08 AM
From: MulhollandDrive	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794349

i watched part of brown's 'victory' speech....he had a bunch of kids behind him, and he was droning on about education (as if that is the biggest, most pressing issue for CA) anyway, 'the children' is code for more spending, more taxes, so get ready for it i feel bad for the people of CA....unfortunately, a tipping point of 'takers' had literally overtaken the makers my son left last december for canada...i'm just very glad he won't be around for CA to rake him over the coals financially...

To: SmoothSail who wrote (390749)	11/3/2010 11:00:13 AM
From: miraje	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794349

Between what Obama and Brown are going to do, working Californians can plan to work for the government for free for at least 6 months out of the year. Between Brown and Boxer, passing Prop 25, the only a simple majority (Lefty Dems) needed now to pass their budget, and the defeat of Prop 23, the voters in CA have thoroughly committed economic hari kari. The only business I'd care to own in CA today would be a U-haul franchise. Adios, former "golden" state..