Here we Go (Downhill) Again

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Late last night I watched Marco Rubio give his acceptance speech for Senator for Florida.  I wish he lived here in California. I had just heard that we here in the formally great state of California had elected Jerry Brown, Barbara Boxer, Maxine Waters, and Jane Harman. My fellow Californians also passed Proposition 25 which changes the vote needed from a 2/3 majority to a simple majority to pass budgets, taxes and stuff. Wow, now the voice of conservatives has no chance to be heard or have any influence because now Democrats won't have to seek compromise, it will be like Nancy Pelosi running the House. Disaster.  My wife has been wanting to move to Florida. It is hard to say no after last night. 

The good news is that at least Republicans took back the House of Representatives and gained some ground in the Senate. Actually the real news is that true conservatives have finally woken up and made their voice heard. For all those racist liberals who called the Tea Party racist I believe the last count I heard last night was that the Tea Party help 11 African Americans get elected. Conservatives are of the common man, regardless of color.

On the whole it was a good night for Conservatives unless, like me you live in California, where we have protected smelt fish, hope for clean air and clean water but no jobs to pay for it.

No Tax Tuesday: This Voter Does Not Approve

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Jerry Brown has said, via annoying commercials, that he believes that California has to live within its' means and no new taxes without voter approval. Since that very statement implies two things that confirm to me what Jerry Brown has always been about is what Jerry Brown will always be about. Taxes and spending every single penny there is and more. I, the voter do not approve. No, on Jerry Brown.

Barbara Boxer is Barbara Boxer. All throughout her campaign she has stressed that she creates jobs. Really? Where? When? What specific jobs is she referring to? The facts are the since 2005 over 1.2 million Californians lost their jobs. Barbara Boxer has been in office since, what 28 years ago, 1982? Her green agenda, as demonstrated by the largely media ignored smelt fiasco shut down a huge part of the central valley which is farming, which is a major part of the California economy. Barbara Boxer is not only a job killer, she is an economy killer. I, the voter do not approve.

Gavin Newsom...Mr. "Whether you like it or not" is definitely a not. Newsom and his liberal Democrats keep saying that what I want as a Californian in "clean air, clean water and no offshore drilling." Hello, McFly! Californians want jobs, less taxes and less government control. I, the voter do not approve of Gavin Newsom.

Maybe I am being repetitive but, I hope my fellow Californians will not approve of the way the Democrats have driven our state into the ground and blamed everyone else but themselves.

On this No Tax Tuesday, show your disapproval of the Democrats and career politicians and vote them out.

Brown Vs Whitman Final Debate

I'll admit I am biased toward the right. So, it would be pretty tough for Jerry to convince me to vote for him. He might be able to, if I just took what he said as the complete picture of who he is and didn't consider his past, who he really is. For instance, he says California needs green jobs. Whitman counters with the fact that only 3% of the jobs are green in California and what does Jerry plan to do about the other 97%? Brown just blew by the question and blathered on about Whitman wanting to give "rich" people tax breaks. Again, he didn't say that those same tax breaks would not help Californian's who are not (in his view) "rich." 

I think Whitman has improved as a debater and did very well considering the obviously liberal crowd. I mean, come on, even Wild Bill Clinton recognized Jerry Brown was a self-serving re-invent yourself slouch (takes one to know one sort of thing). Yet the crowd cheered for Brown as he  made emphatic yet harmless points.  That Whitman was able to elicit any kind of positive response from that crowd was actually impressive. I don't think Brown made himself look like any less of an slime-ball in respect to the "whore" comment. 

Browns main objective seems to me to try to convince Californians that now that he is older and married he is no longer a political knucklehead. If your a young voter you won't remember just what a reckless knucklehead he is. He didn't convince me. It doesn't seem like he has to convince your average Democrat. He just has to make sure he casts Whitman in a "rich taking from the poor" light. He will hope that the same people who vote for the likes of Maxine Waters and Barbara Boxer will vote blindly for him also.

The bottom line, over 1,200,000 jobs have been lost in California since 2005 alone under Democratic leadership. Vote the job killing, take your money, turn off your water money mongers out!