2013 May not be the Year of the Supermajority
Despite all the chatter about the Democrats’ supermajority control of the legislature, it very well could be 2014 that is the year of the supermajority, not 2013. The unexpected success of the Democrats to capture two-thirds of both houses of the legislature during the November election led many pundits to conjecture that the Democratic legislators […]
McCarthy Jumps Off a Cliff
Never say yes. That was the strategy of Assembly Republicans when Kevin McCarthy was their leader earlier in the last decade; they couldn’t even bring themselves to vote for the tight budgets of a Republican governor. And it’s still McCarthy’s mantra, now that he’s the Majority Whip in the House of Representatives. McCarthy voted no […]
Is America’s Future Progressive?
Progressives may be a lot less religious than conservatives, but these days they have reason to think that Providence– or Gaia — has taken on a bluish hue. From the solid re-election of President Obama, to a host of demographic and social trends, the progressives seem poised to achieve what Ruy Texeira predicted a decade […]
10 Predictions for California 2013
SACRAMENTO — California’ Democratic leaders are giddy about the future now that they have gained everything they wanted in the last election — voter-approved tax increases and a two-thirds supermajority in both houses of the Legislature, thus rendering Republicans little more than an annoying irrelevancy that can no longer block tax hikes. Will Democrats just ramp up the […]