{"id":13381,"date":"2011-04-11T18:55:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T18:55:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-11T18:55:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T18:55:02","slug":"give-them-what-they-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/11\/give-them-what-they-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Them What They Want"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at the California Progress Report, Peter Schrag has another excellent post<\/a>.  This time he asks the Governor to give the Republicans what they want, the concept of an all_cuts budget and let them see how they dea with it.<\/p>\n

How much pain and inconvenience will taxpayers have to suffer before they understand that there’s no such thing as a free lunch? How many potholes and unsafe bridges; how many cancelled university classes; how high the tuition; how short the school calendar; how slow the response from the fire department, how long the wait at the DMV? Or do we simply not care? The governor, said GOP Assembly leader Connie Conway, is trying to scare people by trying to tell them that the budget deficit either requires even more severe cuts than the state has already made or the tax extensions the governor wants. That’s a false choice, quoth she, “It’s disingenuous to scare people.” <\/p>\n

You can fix it all with fiddles and efficiency. And pigs can fly. The governor and his fellow Democrats say they’re not trying to scare people, just going to tell the facts, though he’s also said –as he did at a meeting of the Service Employees International Union the other day –that the worst case scenario [meaning no tax extensions] would be really ugly. He also says he’s going to focus on Republican districts and is urging his backers to “hug” a Republican. That’s not quite like saying kiss a frog, hoping he’ll turn back into a prince, but close enough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, what would the GOP do? And will we findout?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at the California Progress Report, Peter Schrag has another excellent post<\/a>.  This time he asks the Governor to give the Republicans what they want, the concept of an all_cuts budget and let them see how they dea with it.<\/p>\n

How much pain and inconvenience will taxpayers have to suffer before they understand that there’s no such thing as a free lunch? How many potholes and unsafe bridges; how many cancelled university classes; how high the tuition; how short the school calendar; how slow the response from the fire department, how long the wait at the DMV? Or do we simply not care? The governor, said GOP Assembly leader Connie Conway, is trying to scare people by trying to tell them that the budget deficit either requires even more severe cuts than the state has already made or the tax extensions the governor wants. That’s a false choice, quoth she, “It’s disingenuous to scare people.” <\/p>\n

You can fix it all with fiddles and efficiency. And pigs can fly. The governor and his fellow Democrats say they’re not trying to scare people, just going to tell the facts, though he’s also said –as he did at a meeting of the Service Employees International Union the other day –that the worst case scenario [meaning no tax extensions] would be really ugly. He also says he’s going to focus on Republican districts and is urging his backers to “hug” a Republican. That’s not quite like saying kiss a frog, hoping he’ll turn back into a prince, but close enough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, what would the GOP do? And will we findout?<\/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":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3tP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13381","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=13381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}