From the LA Times interview with California State Assembly Speaker Karen Bass.
(Via Hot Air & the LA Times)
How do you think conservative talk radio has affected the Legislature’s work?
The Republicans were essentially threatened and terrorized against voting for revenue. Now [some] are facing recalls. They operate under a terrorist threat: “You vote for revenue and your career is over.” I don’t know why we allow that kind of terrorism to exist. I guess it’s about free speech, but it’s extremely unfair.
Wow, it sure sounds like she doesn’t like my right to vote or my right to freedom of thought. I guess we should bow before our Dem masters and kiss their feet? Of course we will have to pay a kiss their feet tax. What Madam speaker ignores is us Californians are sick and tired of Dems spending our money like it grows on trees and continually raising our taxes to cover their inability to balance a simple budget. Cali is facing a $26 billion deficit with extremely high unemployment if drastic cuts are not made we will go bankrupt. Perhaps some remedial math classes are in order for our representatives?
Tom McClintock the “terrorist enabler”.
From the McClintock web site:
The Biggest Economic Mistake Since The Days Of Herbert Hoover
Rep. McClintock gave the following floor speech in opposition to the Cap and Trade legislation on June 26, 2009.I had a strange sense of Deja Vu as I watched the self-congratulatory rhetoric on the house floor tonight, and I feel compelled to offer this warning from the Left Coast.
Three years ago, I stood on the floor of the California Senate and watched a similar celebration over a similar bill, AB 32. And I have spend the last three years watching as that law has dangerously deepened California’s recession. It uses a different mechanism than Cap and Trade, but the objective is the same: to force a dramatic reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.
Up until that bill took effect, California’s unemployment numbers tracked very closely with the national unemployment rate. But then in January of 2007, California’s unemployment rate began a steady upward divergence from the national jobless figures. Today, California’s unemployment rate is more than two points above the national rate, and at its highest point since 1941.
What is it that happened in January of 2007? AB 32 took effect and began shutting down entire segments of California’s economy. Let me give you one example from my district. The City of Truckee, California was about to sign a long-term power contract to get its electricity from a new, EPA-approved coal-fired electricity plant in Utah. AB 32 and companion legislation caused them to abandon that contract. The replacement power they acquired literally doubled their electricity costs.
Let the conservative jihad begin!
