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NOV. 8 Republicans have been amused by President Barack Obama’s thick-headed response to the Democratic Party’s electoral defeat. Despite near-historic gains for the GOP in the House of Representatives and significant GOP gains in the Senate and statehouses, Obama refused
Read MoreMostly Good News On CA Pensions
NOV. 5, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT Those of us who applauded the national backlash against the Obama administration’s big-government overreach have been straining to find good news in California, which defied the national trends by electing a slate of liberal
Read MoreCalifornia Was Impervious To Change
This article was first published in City Journal. NOV. 4, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT No state is in a bigger fiscal jam than California, with its structural budget deficit and massive unfunded liabilities for well-compensated public employees. The state’s business
Read MoreGerrymandering Muted CA Tea Party
NOV. 4, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The Tea Party movement couldn’t overcome the mathematics of political gerrymandering on Election Day Nov. 2 in California. All that the some 240 groups of the Tea Party movement in California had to show
Read MoreWhy Amateur Meg Lost
John Seiler: If you’ve been reading CalWatchDog.com, you know we called the election all along: that Meg Whitman’s campaign was a disaster. It was aloof and unfocused. I kept calling it amateurish. This link goes to a search of my 12
Read MoreWhich Color, California?
NOV. 3, 2010 by KATY GRIMES If you just look the big offices in last night’s election — governor, attorney general, U.S. Senator, et al — then it looks like the state of California is just a giant solidly blue
Read MoreIs California Ungovernable?
NOV. 3, 2010 I jokingly referred earlier in the week to Meg Whitman’s campaign as the worst campaign ever. Now I’m not joking. And while I am sure it’s not the worst ever, it was really bad. Running against former
Read MoreBack to the future for California
Katy Grimes: Jerry Brown has regained the governor’s office he first held in the 1970s, despite former eBay CEO Meg Whitman using more than $160 million of her own money in the race. Californians over age 45 are having a deja
Read MoreSo much for moderate Republicans
John Seiler: A computer couldn’t come up with a candidate more moderate Republican than Meg Whitman. And she’s rich and willing to spend $160 million, too. Her computer-date running mate, Abel Maldonado, also was a poster-boy for Republican moderation. So
Read MoreGive Us Liberty Or We'll Get Dems
This article first appeared in the Orange County Register. NOV. 3, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT President Barack Obama saved the Republican Party from itself. In a two-party system, when one party makes a mess of things, the only choice is
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