California Screamin’
As California prepares to bid farewell to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the obvious question that comes to mind is ‘will anyone miss the governator?’ The only possibility that I can think of would be the union bosses who have had him on a short leash for the past seven years. Talk about a girlie man! What a bust for the once hopeful conservatives in the state who actually believed the former muscle man would take on the ‘forces of evil’ which have brought the state to its knees over the past several decades.
Bucking the trend in all other areas of the country except New York, Democrats swept all statewide offices in the 2010 California midterm elections. The union owned California Democrat Party is not only now in control of the governorship and all statewide offices, but also both houses of the legislature and both senate seats. They now literally own the state with all its blemishes and all its problems, which means that they will be accountable to the electorate if they do not bring the state back from the brink of self inflicted bankruptcy.
With Republicans now in control of the House of Representatives in Washington, DC, the likelihood of a federal bail out is remote, a development which will focus the attention of the world on the responsibility of California’s liberal Democrats for the mess the state is in. While the rest of the country begins the long overdue recovery from a near depression caused by high spending liberals who have now largely been turned out, California will continue to lose jobs, businesses and high income citizens who pay the lion’s share of taxes. It is difficult to see how the current line up of democrats in the state could possibly turn this around. Their policies are simply not designed to rescue a flailing economy, reform an education system that is failing at every level from K through 16, and prevent sanctuary cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles from going the way of third world countries. Oh, for the halcyon (see WOW) days of Ronald Reagan, S. I. Hayakawa and Max Rafferty!
Note:
S.I. Hayakawa was an English professor and semanticist at San Francisco State University who served as a conservative Republican Senator from California from 1977 to 1983. Yes, you read that correctly. He was a professor and he was from San Francisco and he was a conservative!
Max Rafferty was the Superintendent of Public Instruction for California from 1963 to 1971. He was a conservative who presided over the golden years of education in California.