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New York and California Indebted and Unrepentant
The big news from Tuesdays electionsthe GOPs gains of 60-plus seats in the House, recapturing the majority that it lost in 2006naturally makes one wonder about the divisions that the victories are likely to foment. Pundits are speculating on conflicts between the Tea Party and Republican regulars over spending; between the 25 remaining Blue Dog Democrats and the partys liberal leadership; and of course between the two parties over budgetary matters, which could lead to gridlock.But another division is likely to compete for center stage in the next two years: the split between, on one side, California and New Yorktwo states, deeply in debt, whose wealthy are beneficiaries of the global economyand, on the other, the solvent states of the American interior that will be asked to bail them out. This geographic division will also pit the heartlands middle class and working class against the well-to-do of New York and California and their political allies in the public-sector unions. While most of America turned toward the Republicans in this election, Democrats strengthened their hold on California and New York. In California, they won all the statewide offices and even made gains in the legislature, prompting the Orange County Register to describe the Republicans as having been reduced to almost total irrelevancy in Sacramento. In New York, Democrats similarly swept all the statewide offices and may have held on to the state senate, too, though three contests are still too close to call. Those three races are all that stand between New Yorks GOP and a similar irrelevancy. In L.A. a dead Democrat State Senator won with 54% of the vote. Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2010-11-05 |
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