{"id":13028,"date":"2011-01-12T19:46:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T19:46:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-01-12T19:46:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T19:46:56","slug":"gop-leaders-pragmatism-aint-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/12\/gop-leaders-pragmatism-aint-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Leaders: Pragmatism Ain’t For Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"It<\/a>I meant to get to this yesterday, so I apologize for the delay.  But whether you like Brown’s budget or not, we should be able to discuss all options at this point.  Frankly there really isn’t a whole lot to love here. It’s just better than the tack of the previous governor, but hardly what your friendly Calitics writers would put together.<\/p>\n

That being said, the latest outburst from the Republicans comes at their one moment of relevance these days: when we need to pass a 2\/3 revenue measure.  So, did we expect anything other than this:<\/p>\n

“I am not open to the idea because nobody has demonstrated anything to me that shows we are going to do anything different than we have done before,” the Rancho Cucamonga Republican (Dutton) said. “Voters were given this choice back in 2009 and they rejected it and frankly they were right to reject it. We didn’t fix anything, so why would the voters believe you now that you’re going to fix the problem even if they would give you five more years of the same thing?”(SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, he goes on to say how nobody wants to take a hatchet to kill programs, but really, isn’t that what this was always about? They wanted to go after CalWORKS, IHSS, and the public education system from the day they were elected.  At this point, if you cut any deeper, we will discover what the California Dream looks like in the mind of Stephen King.<\/p>\n

But hey, maybe that clown from It would make a good legislator?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"It<\/a>I meant to get to this yesterday, so I apologize for the delay.  But whether you like Brown’s budget or not, we should be able to discuss all options at this point.  Frankly there really isn’t a whole lot to love here. It’s just better than the tack of the previous governor, but hardly what your friendly Calitics writers would put together.<\/p>\n

That being said, the latest outburst from the Republicans comes at their one moment of relevance these days: when we need to pass a 2\/3 revenue measure.  So, did we expect anything other than this:<\/p>\n

“I am not open to the idea because nobody has demonstrated anything to me that shows we are going to do anything different than we have done before,” the Rancho Cucamonga Republican (Dutton) said. “Voters were given this choice back in 2009 and they rejected it and frankly they were right to reject it. We didn’t fix anything, so why would the voters believe you now that you’re going to fix the problem even if they would give you five more years of the same thing?”(SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, he goes on to say how nobody wants to take a hatchet to kill programs, but really, isn’t that what this was always about? They wanted to go after CalWORKS, IHSS, and the public education system from the day they were elected.  At this point, if you cut any deeper, we will discover what the California Dream looks like in the mind of Stephen King.<\/p>\n

But hey, maybe that clown from It would make a good legislator?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3o8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}