"I don’t think Democrats should mention the T-word for two or three years"

Rep. Jim Cooper D-TN

Jim Cooper is actually probably the least liberal Democrat in Congress. He has actually voted for many of the earmark reductions that I or Jeff Flake (R-AZ) have offered. But what he said here is very revealing. The "T-word" of course is taxes. The message is that Democrats ought to wait until after the next election before they do what they really want to do because raising taxes is not popular. In other words, hide your real agenda from the public because they won’t like what they hear. I have often said that the greatest fearfor Republicans is that the public won’t understand what we’re saying. Democrats, on the other hand, fear that the public will understand what they are… Read More

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The slugfest for AD 60 continues with Curt Hagman earning the endorsement of State Sen. Bob Margett. Margett represents most of the 60th and cited Hagman’s fundraising and service as the reasons for his endorsement. See previous post with links to other posts here.… Read More

The following is penned by Steve Baric, the President of the California Republican Lawyers Association. CRLA deserves much praise for their leadership on this matter…

On Monday August 13, 2007 the California Republican Lawyers Association, on behalf of the Assembly Republican Caucus filed a motion in Federal Court to prevent dangerous felons from being released back into our communities. The motion filed would allow Assembly Republicans to intervene in a Federal lawsuit where a 3 Judge panel will consider imposing a cap on California’s prison population. On July 23, U.S. District Court Judges Lawrence Karlton and Thelton Henderson ordered a three-judge panel be convened to consider setting a prison population cap in California. The Judges… Read More

Senate Republicans are doing the right thing. They are standing tall for fiscal responsibility. As FR Central Valley Correspondent Mike Der Manouel said so well earlier today, holding out for fiscal sanity in our state’s spending plan is something that Republicans should have been doing every year since 1999. So we applaud them for their efforts.

The California Democratic Party has actually tried from afar to start up a recall effort against one Senate Republican, Jeff Denham, for having the audacity to stand up for working California families who expect state government to live within its means.

Well, Senator Denham isn’t taking this threat, however incredulous, lying down. A new website has been launched, www.joinwithjeff.com, where you can go to voice your support for Denham. The Friends of Jeff Denham Against The Recall have launched a television spot across his district, which you can watch below, and you can listen to a radio spot that they put together by… Read More

Millions of WSJ Journal subscribers are reading this on page A12 of their WJS this morning – an editorial from the paper…

Arnold’s Health Flop After Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled his universal health-care plan for California in January, almost everyone was laying down palms in Sacramento. Here was a Republican Governor putting aside political squabbling and "doing big things that Washington has failed to do," as Time magazine put it. What a change seven months later, with the plan on the cusp of collapse. There’s a lesson here about health-care "bipartisanship" when it’s merely a cover for bad policy. … Read More

Senate Republicans are doing the right thing. They are standing tall for fiscal responsibility. As FR Central Valley Correspondent Mike Der Manouel said so well earlier today, holding out for fiscal sanity in our state’s spending plan is something that Republicans should have been doing every year since 1999. So we applaud them for their efforts.

The California Democratic Party has actually tried from afar to start up a recall effort against one Senate Republican, Jeff Denham, for having the audacity to stand up for working California families who expect state government to live within its means.

Well, Senator Denham isn’t taking this threat, however incredulous, lying down. A new website has been launched, www.joinwithjeff.com, where you can go to voice your support for Denham. The Friends of Jeff Denham Against The Recall have launched a television spot across his district, which you can watch below, and you can listen to a radio spot that they put together by… Read More

Over at his Citizens for the California Republican website, State Senator Tom McClintock has posted an outstanding column with a little bit of "budget terminology 101" an some ominous numbers foreshadowing challenges ahead.

My eyes were drawn to the last part of what he wrote, and I am reprinting it below: