KMJ is reporting this morning that Governor’s Health Care plan has been killed in the State Senate.

Good. It was perhaps the worst public policy idea ever proposed in California history.

To Arnold’s senior staff, who are reading this: try capitalism. It works every time.

Also, you don’t raise taxes $14 billion when the housing market is tanking, in the middle of a credit crisis, and while businesses and consumers are spendingless than last year already.

So why don’t you fix the State budget mess you created first, without raising taxes and fees. And if you have any time left over, maybe you could pay the State Republican Party back the money you drained in 2006 while running up your landslide while ignoring Bruce McPherson and Tom McClintock.

You know, if Prop 93 passes with the Governor’s help, members of the legislature will have more time to……. learn math! Then, the Governor can go back, study Milton Friedman and maybe become a capitalist again.… Read More

[Publisher’s Note: Senator Denham’s Commentary, below, is an invitation to a conference being put on this Wednesday hosted by Americans for Prosperty, a great organization. PLEASE note that the Senator’s column does NOT indicate a change in our long-standing tradition to not feature invitations to upcoming events on this site. Translation: Please do not send us information on your club or organization’s upcoming events as we are not equipped to post all of them. Thanks for your understanding — Flash]

Defending the American Dream State Senator Jeff Denham … Read More

[Publisher’s Note: Senator Denham’s Commentary, below, is an invitation to a conference being put on this Wednesday hosted by Americans for Prosperty, a great organization. PLEASE note that the Senator’s column does NOT indicate a change in our long-standing tradition to not feature invitations to upcoming events on this site. Translation: Please do not send us information on your club or organization’s upcoming events as we are not equipped to post all of them. Thanks for your understanding — Flash]

Defending the American Dream State Senator Jeff Denham

In just two days, on Wednesday, January 30 there is an event… Read More

Hopefully soon we’ll be featuring some television advertisements from GOP Presidential contenders that are airing in California — although time is running out.

That said, I’ve been keeping an eye on the various ads being run over in Florida, where things are totally insane right now.

I LOVED the ad below, by Rudy Giuliani, that he just unveiled today because it goes to one of my pet peeves — GOP candidates who tout endorsements from newspaper editorial boards.

EARTH TO CANDIDATES — Editorial Boards of major newspapers are almost always stacked with liberal elitists who, when they endorse in a GOP primary of any type, are dabbling into a primary in which none of them will actually be voting.

Anyways, in Giuliani’s ad below, he takes the issue head on! THAT is Moxie. Good for Rudy. … Read More

Nothing. But one of my friends got a pro-Prop 93 piece featuring the Governor with some bizarre color schemes.… Read More

UPDATE: For those who have PowerPoint, you can download the attachment below and walk yourself through a slide-by-slide presentation of data.

Longtime FR Friend Jamie Fisfis is a principal with Chariot Research. His firm does work literally all over the globe. But they just came out of the field with a survey of California voters, giving us a glimpse of where things are in these final days before the Florida primary, to take place this Thursday.

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From Fisfis: "We have just completed a survey of 800 likely primary voters in an effort to gauge pre-Florida primary numbers. On the Democrat side, Hilary Clinton (38% dem) maintains a significant lead concentrated in the bay are an driven by a broad range of issues. By contrast, Obama (18% dem) and Edwards (12.4% dem) are gaining their numbers based upon their strengths among foreign policy and… Read More

John McCain, the U.S. Senator from Arizona with a supposed lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union of 82.3 (even though in 2006 – the most recent rating – it was a very liberal 65), yesterday severely damaged his self-congratulatory character in … Read More

UPDATE: For those who have PowerPoint, you can download the attachment below and walk yourself through a slide-by-slide presentation of data.

Longtime FR Friend Jamie Fisfis is a principal with Chariot Research. His firm does work literally all over the globe. But they just came out of the field with a survey of California voters, giving us a glimpse of where things are in these final days before the Florida primary, to take place this Thursday.

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From Fisfis:

**There is more – click the link**

View Full Commentary… Read More