{"id":9442,"date":"2009-07-21T21:25:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T21:25:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-21T21:25:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T21:25:33","slug":"make-ca-republicans-own-this-budget-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/21\/make-ca-republicans-own-this-budget-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Make CA Republicans Own This Budget Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Dave Johnson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speakoutca.org\/weblog\/\">Speak Out California<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/2042123.html\">So they reached a budget deal<\/a>.&nbsp; The gap was closed entirely with cuts to essential service, schools, health care, etc.&nbsp; Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/9434\/how-to-succeed-in-california-without-really-trying\">had to cave<\/a> out of fear that elderly people literally would not have oxygen tanks.<\/p>\n<p>And to add insult to injury, instead of paying for the oil they take from the state the oil companies receive waivers to allow them to drill offshore!&nbsp; In the last deficit-fix deal big corporations got a huge tax <i>cut<\/i> and now oil companies get <i>more of our oil for free<\/i>.&nbsp; And we will suffer more pollution of our coasts.&nbsp; (It&#8217;s pretty clear from deals like these who is in control of the Republican caucus.&nbsp; The citizens get services taken away, the big corporations get perks that <i>increase<\/i> the deficits.)<br \/><b><br \/>This is a Republican budget deal, entirely on their terms.<\/b>&nbsp; Make them own it.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how you make them own it: Make them vote for it.<\/p>\n<p>Before any Democrat votes for this deal, every single Republican has to vote yes.&nbsp; When the voting start, just sit there.&nbsp; Wait.&nbsp; And then when the Republicans have all voted, ONLY THEN should Democrats start voting, but not before.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>If we are going to have to live with a budget forced on us by Republicans and oil companies, then the Republicans have to show up and vote for it.<\/p>\n<p>Click through to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speakoutca.org\/weblog\/\">Speak Out California<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Dave Johnson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speakoutca.org\/weblog\/\">Speak Out California<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/2042123.html\">So they reached a budget deal<\/a>.&nbsp; The gap was closed entirely with cuts to essential service, schools, health care, etc.&nbsp; Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/9434\/how-to-succeed-in-california-without-really-trying\">had to cave<\/a> out of fear that elderly people literally would not have oxygen tanks.<\/p>\n<p>And to add insult to injury, instead of paying for the oil they take from the state the oil companies receive waivers to allow them to drill offshore!&nbsp; In the last deficit-fix deal big corporations got a huge tax <i>cut<\/i> and now oil companies get <i>more of our oil for free<\/i>.&nbsp; And we will suffer more pollution of our coasts.&nbsp; (It&#8217;s pretty clear from deals like these who is in control of the Republican caucus.&nbsp; The citizens get services taken away, the big corporations get perks that <i>increase<\/i> the deficits.)<br \/><b><br \/>This is a Republican budget deal, entirely on their terms.<\/b>&nbsp; Make them own it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"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":[965,60],"class_list":["post-9442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","tag-965","tag-60"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2si","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442","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\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}