Comments on: California to keep its 53 congressional seats

By: Tom Benigno

Tom Benigno — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:42:48 +0000

What’s wrong with another 50 congressional seats in California? Look at the big picture guys.

By: Ralph Hoffmann

Ralph Hoffmann — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:32:32 +0000

John W, you must watch CSPAN.

By: John W

John W — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 07:39:44 +0000

I think they should have a detailed pop quiz at the end, administered by an independent, nonpartisan party, with each member’s score posted on the House website, starting with the new majority leadership team. This reading should be a great use of time, as I’m sure all 435 members will be quietly seated, with no Blackberry’s, texting or tweeting, listening intently to the entire reading, from Preamble through the 27th Amendment.

By: Ralph Hoffmann

Ralph Hoffmann — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:52:12 +0000

Palin’s Folly did finally certify the Nov. 2 election of its Sen. Lisa Murkowski yesterday.

“When Republicans take over next week, they will do something that apparently has never been done in the 221-year history of the House of Representatives.

They will read the Constitution aloud.

By: John W

John W — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:02:51 +0000

There was a column in one of the papers today proposing (tongue in cheek, I think) that we sell Alaska to pay off the national debt — since Alaska gets back from the federal government far more than it sends in taxes and is over-represented in electoral votes. In California, according to something I read a while back, the parts of the state that are most conservative generally receive the most per capita in benefits and pay the least in taxes.

By: Tom Benigno

Tom Benigno — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:54:32 +0000

Thank’s guys:
We need to start the process of dividing this state ASP. Parts of the state are broke while other parts are doing fine. The bad thing is that the parts that are doing fine are supporting those parts that are BROKE.
Eventually the whole state will suffer. The next trick will be to take prop #13 and call it unconstitutional, so they can sell the property as a SHORT SALE for back taxes.

By: Ralph Hoffmann

Ralph Hoffmann — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:08:30 +0000

John W & Tom Benigno, I think you both have good points.

By: John W

John W — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:38:06 +0000

Tom Benigno,

Your comment on McNerney sort of makes my point. If we want Congress made up of pure liberal and pure conservative districts (something McNerney’s district clearly is not), then doubling or tripling the number of districts would take us in that direction. I think it’s good that we have some of that in the total Congressional mix to help sharpen the debate on the issues. But I don’t want the entire House made up that way. It’s already nearly impossible to reach closure on issues so that we can move ahead. That would exacerbate the problem, in my opinion.

By: John W

John W — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:59:26 +0000

Re: #25

We’re already into our second decade in Japan mode. We just didn’t realize it, because the economy was pumped up on real estate and Wall Street meth.

By: Ralph Hoffmann

Ralph Hoffmann — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:38:58 +0000

Regarding “get this economy going again,” we seem to be following Japan into it’s third decade of stagnation. Read the 2 articles in today’s CCT on Japan: One from Bloomberg News and one from the AP.