I Tried to Stop You, California, But You Just Had to Go and Be Morons Anyway

You didn't pay attention, California, and now you're gonna pay.  While much of the rest of the country was voting to restore some degree of sanity to government, California decided to continue its game of economic Russian Roulette by loading the empty chambers of the gun.  The next time you spin the cylinder and pull the trigger there's going to be a big bang.

Reelecting Barbara "Dumb-as-a-Box-of-Rocks" Boxer will probably end up being fairly harmless.  The GOP wasn't going to win the Senate anyway, and in a closely divided Senate with a very Republican House there's not much damage Boxer can do anymore.  She can propose all the crazy she wants - it won't go anywhere.  And frankly, keeping her 3,000 miles away will probably be a benefit.

On the other hand, you really screwed the pooch when you elected Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown, rejected Prop 23 and approved Prop 25.  By rejecting Prop 23 you've pretty much guaranteed that AB 32, the global warming law that won't stop global warming or even make a dent in it if it's happening, will go into full force causing energy prices to skyrocket and driving hundreds of thousands of jobs out of state.  You fell for the ads which said that rejecting Prop 23 would punish the evil oil companies and "save the planet".

Do you know what the difference is between a Democrat politician and an evil oil company?  Oil companies create jobs, wealth and provide energy for America.  Way to go, dummies.

And Prop 25?  Once again you allowed highly misleading ads convince you that by approving 25 you could punish those lazy legislators who don't pass a budget on time.  And in doing that, you just stripped away the protections which have kept the legislature from raising your taxes at will.  They will now be able to pass budgets loaded with new taxes and fees with simple majority votes and we will no longer be able to count on a Republican governor to veto them.  Jerry Brown now has the keys to your house, your job, and your future should you stay in California.  Way to go, morons.

Remember Prop 13, the 1978 measure opposed by then Gov. Jerry Brown that saved Californians from crushing property tax increases?  Brown will be going after it armed with the new powers granted by Prop 25.  You think the housing market has bottomed out?  Just wait.

Jerry Brown is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the unions and if you think he's going to make tough decisions on spending cuts, you're delusional.  He's going to come after more taxes, more fees, and more job-killing regulation.  There's no amount of crazy the legislature can approve that he won't sign.

Until last night the liberal legislature thought it had a lifeline in Washington.  No matter how badly they screwed things up they knew they had Speaker Nancy Pelosi to bully her members to approve a bailout for her home state.  Not anymore.  Pelosi's influence in the House just disappeared and if you think a GOP-led House is going to approve billions to bailout California, you're smoking something (and yes, it's still illegal thanks to the defeat of Prop 19, the only thing California did right last night).

So go ahead, California, spin the cylinder and pull the trigger.  It'll be a mercy killing.