Californians vote for a new "green economy". The fact that green energy for a green economy can only succeed with massive government subsidies seem to have been overlooked. Maybe the Chinese will subsidise them, because Washington won't be. They've got no money.
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The voters of California should be allowed to enjoy the fruits of their endeavors. Enjoy Gov. Moonbeam. Enjoy the pot. Enjoy the lefty pols. Enjoy the greeniness. Enjoy the smug feeling of superiority. Just don't expect any assistance from the rest of us.
To those Californians stuck in a place not of their making; move. Escape while you can.
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Don't worry dude. I'm sure the lawyers will find a federal prince judge to overrule the unwashed masses people.
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The ultra-rich Silicon Valley backers of this, hoping to make many billions of dollars, poured money into the defeat of this proposition at levels not seen since the Indian casino vote.
The hilarious irony is that it is likely a Pyrrhic victory, as they just bought themselves huge subsidies from a State with no money to pay them.
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I agree completely Snowy. The Chinese factories pollute way more than the factories in the west. And they want to tax us with cap and trade so the American taxpayer can pay to update the Chinese factories with our money to assuage their guilt. Of course, a huge cut for the financial traders first, of course. They are total hypocrites.
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Whimper. I voted for 23. I was dumbfounded that it was defeated. Hey, I'm all for green energy but I don't believe it can work unless there is a profit in it for somebody. That's the only way anything can work.
Oh, and for the record, we did NOT legalize pot. So there. But we did elect Moonbeam. Sorry. Really. I am. But I'm not gonna move. The surf in Texas sucks. But if anybody else wants to leave I'm all for it. It's way too crowded out here.
#8
Former SF Mayor Willy Brown was on Fox and stated that Moonbeam would do just fine like he did the last time he was Governor. He forgot to mention Governor Moonbeam authorized the Public Employees Unions.
I just heard that the men who run the Fire Boats on SF Bay make over $150,000 a year and can retire at 20 years with $120,000/yr and full Medical Benefits.
SF cannot pay for madness like this but a Prop to start to reform the SF pension system was soundly defeated yesterday. This was after the Unions spent $4 million just in the City.
With 55 electoral votes and hat in hand, Moonbeam and the Mayors will be asking Washington to bail us out.
Renewable Energy and Education are the keys Thank you for the bucks Teachers Union.
Moonbeam babbles a incoherent victory speech, bend over and hold your ankles California:
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Not only did the people here elect a 74 year old Governor with evidence of senility emerging, but through a simple slight of hand purporting to punish legisdlators for late budgets, they removed the 2/3 requirement for tax increases. So Moonbeam and the Dem legislature, whose approval rating now is at 9%, will be able to pass taxes without opposition. We will surpass New York as the tax leader in the nation, and have exported every bit of out industry to more sane climes. Brown doesn't actually have a clue how to save the state, and will be focused on payback to the unions when he can string a series of thoughts together.
CA will be filing for bankruptcy within two years. Paradise truly ruined, and my house goes on the market this spring, for whatever I can get. Heartbreaking, but proof that Jefferson knew the weakness of democracy. CA government will now exist to transfer money from the makers to the takers.
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Not to worry NoMore - I'm sure Obambi will find a way to bypass the house (perhaps some more Czars - or simply reapproprate funds by Edict) and give CA a bailout.
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NoMoreBS, you have touched upon the most worrisome development of yesterday's election in Kaliphornia and the main reason why I held my nose and voted for Meg Whitman, who came off in the campaign as a truly detestable individual. With all restraints removed, the donks in our state legislature will run roughshod over the taxpayers in this state. I honestly don't know what these people are thinking. I will say that in a recent conversation with a liberal he told me "We need to pay more in taxes". I couldn't frickin' believe what I was hearing. I believe he was sincere but, Why? I don't get it. Why would any sane person want to give money to Jerry Brown?
#12
If Obama wants to send money to California he could do it through the aerospace industry and nobody would say anything about it. Yeah, that's not enough but that's the most obvious example.
#13
California is FUBAR. Its about to become flaming wreckage as companies flee the impending destruction. You just voted in a union owend moron as Gov, and the US House will no longer bail you out - the rest of us will not allow ourselves to be bankrupted by your idiocy.
You've made the mess, the bill is coming due: Stupidity has a painful cost.
California: YOU. will. pay.
The clock is running... here is your fate (and my advice to you few sane people in California is in there too):
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rj, problem is those industries are moving out of CA.
Think how good Texas looks to them now, and it has just as high a density fo tech types without all the lunacy, taxes and over-regulation. And a lot of GOP congressmen to act as a brake on any moves by Maubama to halt the flow of defense firms.
I'm considering moving to Texas for my final retirement. Colorado has an influx of 200K form California and its showing up in the elections here. The locusts (liberal CA transplants) are settling in around Denver and Boulder, and getting ready to rot Colorado from the inside.
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KALIPORNIA IS DOOMED unless it makes some very hard decisions. Looking at their election outcomes, that is not going to happen. Given that these hard decisions will not be made Kalipornia will fail economically. Its bonds won't be worth squat for any public financing. There is no industry to speak of that would provide a decent tax base. There won't be enough taxes to feed the public unions. Think Greece or Detroit.
Kilo Bravo and I are going to explore coastal Georgia next year as an exit strategy from CA. I spent a lot of time in the Savannah area when I was in the Marines.
I'll miss my home and the bug free environment, but places like Skidaway Island are starting to look very good. Got to be a place that gets the summer Sea Breezes.
This is not the California I was born in nor the place Kilo Bravo emigrated to from dank Mother England. It's going to be a choice between summer mosquitoes and gnats in Georgia or year round blood sucking Donkquitoes.
Bottom line is we don't intend to spend our hard earned retirement on propping up this rotting California corpse. Let the public unions finance themselves.
#22
The last time a liberal told me "we" need to pay more taxes I asked how much he pays. He said he didn't really make enough to pay taxes. So I assume anyone who says we need to pay more taxes really means you need to pay more taxes so I can get more free stuff.
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I couldn't frickin' believe what I was hearing. I believe he was sincere but, Why? I don't get it. Why would any sane person want to give money to Jerry Brown?
Liberals are NOT sane.
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I have relatives in northern California. They like it there, but they're tired of being subjected to the whims of Los Angeles and San Francisco. They think the best thing to do is to split the state in half, roughly along an east-west line through Sacramento. Let the librulls live with their decision, but not subject others to their whims.
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Conservatives and normal people in CA should just get the hell out while you still can. Take a loss on the house, its going to get far worse before it gets any better, you;re better off renting in Alabama than owning in CA.
Key point: the idiot voters removed the constitutional caps on taxes - the Dems in the legislature can now raise taxes with a simple majority vote, and that's exactly what senile Gov Moonbeam is going to do.
For the few productive people left in CA, its going to be like Dien Bien Phu, surrounded by the forces of Ho Chi Moonbeam.
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"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
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Alexis De Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America, which was published in 1835, seemed to grasp the perils of this day when he wrote: "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
-- Keith R. McCullough is CEO of Hedgeye, a research firm based in New Haven, Conn
With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, deceased candidate, Democrat Jenny Oropeza, defeated Republican John Stammreich in the race for State Senate in the 28th district. Just when you thought this state couldn't get any stranger.
Oropeza, 53, died on Oct. 20. Because her death was within 10 days of the election, her name remained on the ballot.
The governor now has two weeks to declare her seat empty, and schedule a special election within three to four months. This allows Democrats a chance to find a new candidate to run for Oropeza's seat.
A week after her death, Democrats sent out mailers to residents, calling for voters to still reelect Oropeza. The mailers featured Secretary of State Debra Bowen and Democratic Party general counsel Martha Escutia.
Two black Republican victories tonight mark the first time African-Americans will represent the GOP in Congress in seven years.
Retired Lt. Colonel Allen West's win in Florida's 22nd District and South Carolina State Rep. Tim Scott's victory in that state's 1st Congressional District is also the first time two black GOP members will serve in Congress since 1996.
Scott defeated Democrat Ben Frasier in an open contest to replace retiring Republican Rep. Henry Brown to the first black GOP in Congress since former Oklahoma Congressman J.C. Watts retired in 2003.
West defeated incumbent Democratic Rep. Ron Klein shortly after Scott's victory Tuesday. It was West's second contest against Klein, losing to the incumbent in 2008. That's odd, they were backed by the racist Tea Party.
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The Congressional Black Caucus thingy was discussed on NPR today. Some Black politician said, quite uncomfortably, that of course the new Republicans would be invited, being of African descent and all (his vocabulary). But it would make certain strategy and tactics discussions a bit difficult, being as they were in the other party, and the CBC hadn't figured out how to work around that.
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If I was Lt. Col. West, I would decline the invite with a letter stating that the CBC hadn't done anything to help my candidacy and does precious little to help any black that doesn't toe the party line and they can FOAD.
#1
Well, all the polls had Angle up by a few points. There was a power failure during election. SEIU techs were responsible for making certain the voting machines "worked" (wink, wink). Reports started coming out that voting machines were not working properly. Voters voted for Angle and got Harry instead. What do you think?
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He didn't steal the election. The only effective ads in the whole campaign were Nevadan republican leaders and businessmen came out for Harry Reid. Also, several articles came out saying the gaming industry was worried that if Harry lost it would be bad for the gaming industry.
In the end, although no one liked Harry, Angle was just too stupid to vote for even by Nevadan standards.
Chalk this loss up to the Tea Party. Everyone expected Sue Lowden to win the primary. Two congressional districts went Repub yet the senator lost. Don't chalk up to conspiracy (vote stealing) which can be explained by incompetency (Repub candidate is f'ing idiot.)
#4
Lowden would have lost too. There's a reason she lost the primary. I liked Lowden but she wouldn't have survived the weak spots in her campaign against a man who was going to do whatever it took to survive.
Perhaps the state district attorney will link him to the voting irregularities ...
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Angle didn't lose because she is stupid. She's no genius but that's provably not a prerequisite for the Senate.
She lost because she's not controlable. Not by the Republican power brokers, not by the big money gambling interests, and not by the government insiders.
#6
He didn't steal the election. The only effective ads in the whole campaign were Nevadan republican leaders and businessmen came out for Harry Reid. Also, several articles came out saying the gaming industry was worried that if Harry lost it would be bad for the gaming industry.
Well, y'all have sure fucked y'all'selves in that department. The entire gaming industry is dependent on the rest of us having money to literally piss away and watch swirl off into the pretty vortex when we pull the 'flush' lever. Looking at the Senate continuing to be Dem or Semi-Dem puts the kibosh on that for the next four years. And even IF things ever get better... people just aren't going to want to spend money for a while.
#8
The corporations in the gaming biz are helped a lot by a weak dollar (because the revenues in Macao, etc. are bigger in dollars). That is going to happen because of the Feds recent actions.
Reid and Angle have little to do with it.
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Republican Mark Kirk on Tuesday captured the Senate seat once held by the president, dealing an embarrassing blow to Democrats. Heh... I wondered if the dhimocrats would lose this seat. You have been a bad, bad boy Bambi. Now go to your room.
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Charisma has its limits. Hope can fade. The once-soaring ascendancy of Barack Obama has come crashing down as the American people have just delivered the greatest rejection a President has received in almost 80 years.
Not since 1932, amid the tumult of the Great Depression, has the party which controlled the White House and the Congress, seen such a cascade of rejection as President Obama's Democrats, with a projected loss of 60 seats, perhaps more, in the House of Representatives by the Democrats to the resurgent Republicans.
In the Senate, the Democrats have retained control but seen their 57 to 41 majority over the Republicans slashed to a few seats.
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tu3031: Well, it didn't here. I think Massachusetts is adding the hallucinogens to the water again.
Sadly true *sigh*. It confirms my suspicion that the Scott Brown election was a once-in-a-lifetime perfect storm event rather than a sea change in Masshole voters [should I cram any more metaphors into that sentence?]. It also confirms my intent and plans to move out of this benighted place ASAP.
#6
Nancy Pelosi led the House Democrats off a cliff. I remember her saying it took courage to pass Social Security, Medicare and ObamaCare. There is a fine line between courage and stupidity. She crossed it.
#7
Compare the financial situation, job losses, pension problems and labor union control in the following sets of states:
Biggest Blue 3: California, New York, Illinois
Biggest Purple 3: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri
Biggest Red 3: Texas, Florida, Georgia
Notice the differences? The Big Red 3 are relatively stable financially, have moderately bad public pension woes, balanced their budgets without too many tricks, and have public employee unions firmly under control.
The Big Blue 3 do not, and each is screwed.
The Big Purple 3 (or as I prefer to call them, 'heterozygotes'), are in the middle.
Compare their state financial and political situations to the vote yesterday, and you won't need to be Michael Barone to figure out what happened, and why.
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Local California newspaper, Contra Costa Times, gleefully displays this headline:
#9
Well, California will have to go through some interesting times before they will change. Addicts have to hit bottom before they have their moment of clarity and CA hasn't hit bottom yet.
(Why did I move here again? Oh yeah, more money :P )
#10
I wonder when/if the Dims will internalize the fact that this is a bigger repudiation than Watergate?
They are most definitely not there yet. They still think it's a matter of explaining better and voter hysteria, not that the zeitgeist has moved on and left (heh) them behind. They don't understand that we do understand, and do not want, what they forced through.
They really don't grasp the power of self-organizing groups, despite having done some self-organizing of their own (Kos Kiddies, etc.). They don't realize that we (as a group, I mean, not me personally) read the Health Care Reform bill, applied our various expertises to translate the language, and rejected the result... even as it became clear they hadn't read it themselves. They don't realize that we tracked down the recipients of the Stimulus Plan and discovered that entirely too many of them don't exist, others are incapable of delivering what was promised, and the remaining have been multiply-billed to fudge the statistics. That, my dears, is the difference between educated and merely credentialed.
In a victory of historic proportions, Republicans will win the U.S. House of Representatives with a net gain of about 60 seats, Fox News projects. I bet around 64 seats won for the Republicans and a tie or +1 in the senate. Goodbye Pelosi!
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I've been saying here for months that the Dem strategy (running a machine democrat as an "independent" to remove moderate votes from the republican) in MA would reelect Patrick.
Now they've gone and done it.
Webb, Bayh, or Hillary will announce just after Christmas that they've "left the Democrats" and are an independent, and will run as such for president in 2012. MA was the testbed, and since it worked there they'll do it at a national level.
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Someone at another blog has the big story nailed:
The real story is the underreported story of the night the Republican pick ups at the state level.
There will be 18 states subject to reapportionment. The Republicans will control a majority of those at least ten and maybe a dozen or more. More significantly, a minimum of seventeen state legislative houses have flipped to the Republican Party.
The North Carolina Legislature is Republican for the first time since 1870. Yes, that is Eighteen Seventy.
The Alabama Legislature is Republican for the first time since 1876.
The entire Wisconsin and New Hampshire legislatures have flipped to the GOP by wide margins.
The State Houses in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Montana, and Colorado flipped to the GOP.
The Maine and Minnesota Senates flipped to the GOP.
The Texas and Tennessee Houses went from virtually tied to massive Republican gains. The gains in Texas were so big that the Republicans no longer need the Democrats to get state constitutional amendments out of the state legislature.
This victory has the potential to be a gift that keeps on giving if the Republicans perform, that far from a certainty.
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I think no mo uro nails it. David Axelrod has used Massachusetts as his test platform for quite a while.
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JohnQC
Charles Djou (R) in Hawaii lost to Colleen Hanabusa (D)
Our Donk in CA-11, Jerry McNerney, is down by 23 votes to David Harmer (R). It looks like my vote counted. However, they'll probably have a recount and Harmer will lose.
We may have turned out a Donk, Jim Costa in CA-20. However he's only behind 623 votes to Andy Vidak so the recount fear is still present. Otherwise CA is f#@ked with the same old same old except Governor Moonbeam.
Moonbeam babbles an incoherent victory speech, bend over and hold your ankles California:
#11
Absolutely right with Nimble's post. I know Kansas is not a big state compared to those listed, but it was basically a Republican sweep with token democrat State Rep wins in predictable districts. Why would that matter to anyone else? Well when they were showing that map of 10th Ammendment States there was a glaring hole which should now be filled.
The democrat AG candidate was endorsed by both the NRA and fraternal order of police, endorsements one would think would go a long ways in this state, and got trounced.
#13
Longtime representatives were falling just as hard as freshmen...
Another one bites the dust! Republican challenger Chip Cravaack upsets Rep. Jim Oberstar (MN-DFL) Before anyone dismisses this as a just another loss for Dems you need to consider the facts. Democrats have held the Minnesota 8th district since 1947 of which Oberstar has sat for 36 years. Oberstar has never had below 59% of the vote. And as chairman of the House Transportation Commitee he has brought hundreds of millions in pork to his Union dominated district. Huge!
#14
Comrade Murray in WA State holds a edge lead so far - but they are still counted. May trigger an automatic recount which would mean Murray in a landslide.....
After all this is the Peoples Republic of Washington and the fix is probably already in....
#16
Let them be gleeful. They can f'ing rot when they hit bankruptcy and the state falls apart. Self congratulatory morons - they still haven't figured out they will be stuck with the bill, a bill they cannot pay.
#17
Here in Maine we now have a Republican State senate and house now along with Lepage as Governor. They have a rash of intractable problems that need tough solutions. And there's no money to pay the promises of the past. A hard road lays ahead. Interestingly, California voters, which have the same problems, just chose the opposite along with legalized marijuana. Let's see which state's choice works the best.
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At least the masses will have their opiates, and will now always be able to make their appointed raids.
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In another boon for Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, write-in ballots cast for Republican candidate Joe Miller wont count toward his total vote count. Alaskas Lt. Gov. Craig Campbell, who oversees elections, told the Associated Press that write-in ballots for Miller will be tossed out.
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CA-11
As I feared the Donk in our district, Jerry McNerney, who was down by 23 votes has passed the Trunk, David Harmer, and is now up by 121 votes. There is some mystery Independent named David Christensen who has syphoned off nearly 9,000 votes. Looks like Donk is using Dingy Harry Reid's playbook.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] President Barack B.O. Obama warned that key US elections today "will have an impact for decades to come,"
That's the plan.
as his Democratic allies braced for a rout fuelled by deep voter anger at the sour economy.
Mr. Reporter sir, you forgot 'bitter' ...
His message came as opinion polls showed fired-up Republicans likely to retake the House of Representatives and slice deep into the Democratic Senate majority, though experts predicted the upper chamber would not change hands.
Late today, the White House said President B.O. will hold a presser on Wednesday, a day after the historic midterm election.
The White House said in a statement that Obama will talk to news hounds Wednesday in the White House.
Meanwhile the White House deployed popular First Lady Michelle Obama to Nevada where Senate Majority leader Harry Reid faces a neck-and-neck battle for his seat in the state with the worst US jobless and home foreclosure rates.
"Can we do this? Yes, we can. Yes, we must," the First Lady shouted, reviving the campaign slogan that buoyed her husband into the White House two years ago.
In an 11th-hour plea to voters in the key battleground of Pennsylvania, Barack Obama warned Republicans would bring back the very policies he blamed for the 2008 economic meltdown that has left nearly one in 10 Americans still out of work. "The bottom line is this: We're making progress, we're moving in the right direction," the president said on WDAS-FM radio. "If you haven't voted, take that time to vote.
''It will have an impact for decades to come."
The president, fearing a ballot-box repudiation just two years into his campaign for change, also planned to telephone Democratic volunteers tasked with getting party faithful to the polls, aides said.
The president was notably targeting voters in the critical battlegrounds of Florida, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania -- all key to his 2012 reelection bid -- as well as his birth state of Hawaii, the White House said.
Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden was also campaigning for embattled Democrats, whose fortunes rested on the power of their get-out-the-vote machine to counter Republican energy.
"If the other side is more enthusiastic, we could end up having problems moving this country forward," warned the president, who boasted that Democratic policies had "rescued the economy" from a second Great Depression.
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See that House? It ain't yours no more. Fwuk you, Bambi and Fwuk your agenda.
#4
The Tea Parties had their influence on the elections. I did not hear any of the smug, smarmy, leftists msm elitists referring to the Tea Party as Teabaggers last night. Fcuk them very much.
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Awwww ... San Fran Nan will have to climb on her broomstick, the next time she wants to fly back to California.
Don't forget to reimburse the Air Force for stocking all that liquor on your cross-country flights, Nan.
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Republican Mark Kirk on Tuesday captured the Senate seat once held by the president, dealing an embarrassing blow to Democrats.
Can you hear us now??? 
In a victory of historic proportions, Republicans will win the U.S. House of Representatives with a net gain of about 60 seats, Fox News projects. 
