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"Because in the primaries they have run on extremist platforms against other Republicans, they have no incentive to be pragmatic or moderate, and tend simply to
by natmaster 17y ago
"Because in the primaries they have run on extremist platforms against other Republicans, they have no incentive to be pragmatic or moderate, and tend simply to balk."
Yes, let's knee-jerk blame Republicans. Obviously cutting spending is out of the question, even though other states somehow manage.
- madair 17y agoThe Economist is traditional a fairly conservative organization, it's hard to call their critique of Republicans knee-jerk.
- krakensden 17y agoExcept they're /right/. The state Democrats are corrupt and ineffectual, but at least they're not insane like our Republicans, who refuse to even consider ideologically impure things like ``compromise to pass a budget''.
- anamax 17y agoThe Repubs have compromised. They only slowed, somewhat, the growth in spending. Do you really think that CA would be better off if spending had grown faster? If not, then you get to explain how letting the Dems get more of their way would have helped. Be specific. (Surely you're not going to argue that Repubs forced significant new spending or that Repubs forced Dems to spend more money than the revenues.)