[T]his is a legitimate national issue. One-third of the 2009 stimulus money went to state and local governments--an obvious payoff to the public employee unions which gave hundreds of millions of dollars to Democrats and got hundreds of billions of dollars in return, to insulate public employee unions from the effects of the recession which has affected everyone else.
He links to a press release of my favorite Democrat (and I don't even break out in hives when I say that!) who is running against Barbara "Don't Call Me Madam" Boxer:
President Obama is “swooping” into Los Angeles today to try to save Senator Barbara Boxer--the same way he saved Gov. John Corzine in New Jersey and would-be Senator Martha Coakley in Massachusetts!
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What Obama and Boxer don’t seem to realize is that they—like Corzine and Coakley--are on the wrong end a taxpayer rebellion. For decades, Californians paid high taxes but got good services in return: good schools and roads, an excellent university system. But now, after favor after favor to the unions from their pliant political pawns, we have bloated payrolls, unfireable teachers who are the highest-paid in the nation, state workers who retire at 55 and make more money not working than when they were working.
We’re paying high taxes but we’re getting low services. Worse, the unions’ pay-today-forget-about-tomorrow attitude failed to plan for an economic downturn. As a result, the state and many cities and towns are looking into the abyss of insolvency.
It is all coming to a head this year. Obama and Boxer are on the crushable side of a tsunami of voter discontent.
Mickey Kaus has too much sense to be a Democrat.
And for good measure, here, once again, is the infamous Boxer clip:
Greg Gutfeld suggested that Kaus' slogan should be "Call me Ma'am. I don't mind. Kaus for Senate!" (Gutfeld is hilarious as always in his interview with Kaus below.)
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