[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

It's one hull of a story!

by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

So, this is rapidly breaking news here. As of right now, Assembly Members Price and Calderon abstained from voting on the yacht loophole fix. All other Dems voted yes, with Assembly Member Soto being out sick, we don't have the 41 votes necessary to fix the yacht loophole. What does it say if we can't get even this smallest of revenue fixes passed?

As an aside, apparently Sen. Denham is taking this recall effort seriously. He voted against some of the spending cuts. Interesting. I'll update when I learn more.

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

I was able to get my hands on some excerpts from the Governor's speech to the California Republican Party tonight ...

Dear Delegates:
 
It is fantastic to be here with my fellow Republicans in our Big Tent party, or should I say Big Stall party. I haven't seen this many white guys in a single room since I brought together all of the judges I've appointed.
 
I apologize for your having to step around all of the homeless people on your way in. But what's a minor inconvenience like that -- caused by the budget cuts you demanded and I caved in for -- when we all can still qualify for the yacht tax credit I gleefully signed into law a few weeks ago?
 
Speaking of sinking ships, I'd like to give a special shout out to Ron Nehring, my fantastic friend and future cellmate of his mentor Grover Norquist, for inviting me to speak on a Friday night, when no one in the mainstream media will be watching. Thank you, Ron, for your leadership of a Party that has become debt-ridden and blog-driven. That the resolutions committee is thinking about putting everything we stand for on a single sheet of paper is a tribute to what we stand for: very little.
 
We all know that California has a prison crisis. And thanks to our Republican Congressional delegation -- including John Doolittle, Gary Miller, and Jerry Lewis -- it will become more acute in the months ahead.

There's more...

[courtesy of California Progress Report]

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