The Resounding Defeats of California's Propositions

This week's defeat of all of California's emergency funding and tax propositions, by wide margins, would seem to reinforce the recently-kindled 'tea party' sentiments on display across the nation on April 15th.

Despite Colin Powell's assertion that many voters are happy to pay their taxes for the government services they receive, and they want more government services, Tuesday's California ballot results suggest a very finite limit to the extent to which Powell's contentions are true.

It appears we've seen one state's voters declare that their runaway government has gone too far. No new taxes. No new spending. It must begin to shrink.

This voter reaction was widely forecast, so it's not actually that surprising. What is now in play is, from yet another direction, the states' rights issue.

Congressman Barney Frank, himself from one of the states near the top of the almost-insolvent list, spoke of providing federal loan guarantees to California's bonds, if necessary.

This has provoked a hailstorm of criticism across the land, both from voters and state-level government officials. There will most assuredly be a multi-state lawsuit against the federal government if it attempts to make every state pay for the man made acts of destruction occurring in California.

Here in New Jersey, tax-and-spend liberal governor Jon Corzinne is on the ropes, running ads claiming he's doing all he can for residents amidst the recession. In truth, he's trailing in polls against the leading Republican candidate. This state is probably second or third on the list of 'most likely to become technically bankrupt.'

Thus, the California example is not an isolated case. Every other state governor realizes that a serious tipping point is about to occur. Tuesday, on Glenn Beck's Fox News program, South Carolina governor Mark Sanford agreed that a federal guarantee of California's debt would essentially remove the meaningful role of any state government. Essentially, every state's economic and budgetary acts would merely be extensions of federal funding. Obviously, in short order, Congress would lay claim to power over all acts in every state.

Ironically, the most active and effective barrier to Wonderboy's quick-marching of the US down the path to fascism and, then, socialism, will likely not be the Republican party in Congress, but governors and legislatures in nearly all 50 states.

Jeb Bush was so clairvoyant that it's positively eerie.