CA Lt. Gov. Garamendi: GOP an infection 'spreading across the nation'

[babylonsister]

CA Lt. Gov. Garamendi: GOP an infection 'spreading across the nation' : Updated
By John Amato Wednesday Feb 18, 2009 2:10pm



The Republicans in the California legislature are trying to close down the entire state. As everyone across America watches with awe how f*&ked up these idiot Republican politicians are acting, finally we hear someone step up to the plate and get at the root of the problem.

Lt. Gov Garamendi: I've been listening to what you had to say about Republicans in the Senate and Congress, we have an infection here and it's a Republican infection that's really spreading across this nation. Just what do they propose to do? Shut everything down? They did that with Newt Gingrich. They seem to want to do that in California and we're saying no way. no how. We're gonna build, we're going to go with Obama.

He linked these dead beat Republicans to the Newt Gingrich led Congress that got embarrassed by shutting down the federal government.

And Arnold Schwarzenegger gets a free pass from the California and national media time and time again. He was Enron's chosen boy to oust Gray Davis and he's almost single handedly led us down a path to ruin. The CA media needs to start looking in the mirror on this one.<[/b>

And as the Garamendi explained, California has this super majority requirement on any vote that entails raising taxes in place that stalls all legislation.

We do have a two thirds vote....And then when you have Republicans that have taken a no new tax pledge and seem to just want to throw this state and really the nation into chaos and further decline in the economy, then we have the gridlock that we see. We need to change our constitution.

We need to hold these Republicans accountable...

more/video at link~

http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/ca-lt-gov-garamendi-gop-infection-sprea

[aquart]

1. Well, good luck, fella.

I hear California was a great state till Prop 13.

[Winterblues]

6. You mean the one that was passed thirty years ago?

I seem to recall California booming during the Clinton years. It is not Prop 13 that is messing with California it is Republican ideology. It is history that every single time Republicans get the upper hand the economy goes to hell. That is a pretty easy one to verify.

[tanyev]

2. Republicans: Walking, talking biological weapons that are putting us in peril.

[liberalmuse]

3. The GOP is D-E-A-D.

I think we're watching a mass suicide event. Every day they're putting about 6 nails in their party's coffin.

[Thrill]

4. They aren't patriotic

[babylonsister]

7. From KO about Kit Bond: light on their feet, because their principles

aren't weighing them down. That seems to be applicable to all rethugs.

[silverweb]

5. Garamendi's a good guy.

He proposed eliminating the Worker's Comp system completely and spending that money (too much of which goes to lawyers and fighting claims) on universal health care.

He's telling the truth and he's absolutely right.

[roamer65]

8. Malloy has the best solution to the infection...you KILL it.

[tblue37]

9. The Repubs who control the legislature in Kansas tried to do the same thing here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5084262

[Buddyblazon]

10. I don't feel comfortable using language like that....

to describe a political opponent...and I think for the sake of being civil...even when the people we're applying it to are assholes...is dangerous territory.

An "infection" and somebody said "kill it"? Are we serious with this? Do we think that speech like this is okay? I would love to see the Republican party be reduced to obscurity. But I do not view them as an "infection" and I do not think we should "kill it".

[pierre790]

11. The Next Time Some Monkey Tries This...

They should be set upon like the dickhead he or she is.These people need to be put in their places.