Tuesday, February 01, 2011
"I Smell Mustard..."
"Quit your daydreaming, melonhead!"
Forward into the 70’s! Led by an oooold man who “hasn’t much time.”
Brown’s “small is beautiful” mantra...
Brown has tossed some of the flashier trappings of the state’s top office in part because of his age, maturity and experience in the office, experts say.
The 72-year-old Brown underscored those strengths in his 2010 gubernatorial drive launch on the Internet, when he looked directly at the camera and told Californians that “at this stage in my life” he wasn’t looking to a future political campaign but to secure California’s future, said Joe Trippi, Brown’s campaign-ad strategist.
“He’s giving you, up front, an explanation on why he needs to do it; he doesn’t have time to screw around,” said UC Irvine political scientist Mark Petracca.
...Petracca said. “He’s of a particular age where time is more precious - and I think it makes people take you more seriously."
...or not
Also gone from the governor’s office is the boardroom table, with a wooden picnic table now in its place.
..."After a while you want to leave,” [Brown] said, “depending upon the strength of your posterior."
Bet he didn’t use that particular word… but he did use these:
“When democratic ideals and calls for the right to vote are stirring the imagination of young people in Egypt and Tunisia and other parts of the world, we in California can’t say now is the time to block a vote of the people,” Brown said in his first State of the State address in nearly 30 years.
He said the budget has tough choices but that the people “have a right to vote” on the package.
Gee… Thanks
“If you are a Democrat who doesn’t want to make budget reductions in programs you fought for and deeply believe in, I understand that,” he said. “If you are a Republican who has taken a stand against taxes, I understand where you are coming from. But this time things are different. In fact, the people are telling us—in their own way—they sense something is profoundly wrong. They see that their leaders are divided when they should be decisive and acting with clear purpose.”
No matter what he says, no matter what he does, remember, Jerry Brown fully supports AB32, aka Global Warming The Final Solution, which will gut the entire CA economy, encourage producers to flee the state and leave the real estate to the Reconquistas.
ok—gut it further.
First, remember that these areas are the ground zero, so to speak, of 20 years of illegal immigration. There has been a general depression in farming — to such an extent that the 20- to-100-acre tree and vine farmer, the erstwhile backbone of the old rural California, for all practical purposes has ceased to exist.
That’s from Victor Davis Hanson’s article on CA—a must read—where I also found this:
"If a man takes no interest in public affairs, we do not commend him as quiet but condemn him as useless.”
--Thucydides, Peloponnesian Wars
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