The Republican minority is terrorizing the country!

[Joanne98]

They want the country to fail!

California stuck in budget deadlock

(CNN) -- Lawmakers in California had failed by early Thursday to pass a state budget, with Democrats unable to persuade one Republican to change his vote and break the impasse.

The budget stalemate has forced Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a fiscal emergency and send layoff notices to 10,000 state workers.

State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, urged lawmakers to pass the budget during a news conference just after midnight.

All Democrats were prepared to vote for the budget, but one more Republican was needed to reach a majority vote, Steinberg said.

"We need one more member. One more member. We need one more," said Steinberg, raising his voice as he pointed to a large placard with No. 1 written in red. "My door is open for any Republican that wants to put the state first."

U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, also was there Thursday morning and reminded lawmakers that Democrats in the U.S. Senate were able to get just enough Republican votes to pass President Obama's $787 billion stimulus plan. Interactive: See where the stimulus money is going »

"We have to put aside all this ego and put the people of California first," Boxer said. "The people of California do not deserve the fate they will receive if it is not passed."

Without a new budget, 276 public works projects will be halted Thursday, an additional 10,000 state workers could receive layoff notices and California may not receive parts of the federal economic stimulus package, lawmakers said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/19/state.budgets/

[Strong Atheist]

1. That's because they are

terra-ists. Maybe they should all be sent to gitmo ...

[bdamomma]

2. repigs our american taliban.

they need to be stamped out totally, in the 2010 election. they are rabid!! they have no leadership and yes they are home alone!!!

[Jim__]

3. "... 276 public works projects will be halted Thursday ..."

Fucking Herbert Hoover all over again. These clowns never learn.

[RandomKoolzip]

4. While I'm ususally all for giving the marginal among us some power...

In this instance, these greedy scumsnorting republican pigs deserve their sidelined status. They're out of touch, they have no public support, and yet we're letting them call the shots. Now if only the Dem leadership, both state and federal, had the guts to steamroll them and tell 'em to fuck off...