“Maybe this whole experiment with voting for divided government is starting to wane”
Twenty-four states will be controlled by Republicans, including Alaska and Wisconsin, where the party took the State Senate, and North Carolina, where the governorship changed hands. At least 13 states will be Democratic, including Colorado, Minnesota and Oregon, where control of the legislatures shifted, and California, where the already dominant Democrats gained a supermajority in both chambers. (The situation in New York, where the potential for single-party control by the Democrats rests on the makeup of the Senate, is still uncertain.)…
Either way, the result is likely to speed along state legislative proposals from both corners, experts said, but less so from the middle.
“We are going to see government activism to the left and to the right that we haven’t seen in years,” said Lawrence Jacobs, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota. “If you wondered what Washington would look like under single-party rule, the states are a laboratory for that now.”
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California, Illinois, and New York, down the sh!thole of debt. Laboratories indeed.
Paul-Cincy on November 23, 2012 at 4:02 PM
Make sure the Feds don’t bailout the states (including government worker pension systems), and let the laboratories work. Go ahead California, raise taxes again.
Revenant on November 23, 2012 at 4:05 PM
0bama will bail them out with red state tax money – count on it.
Rebar on November 23, 2012 at 4:05 PM
This is a good thing. States that are successful with thus succeed while those that aren’t – California – will fail.
MoreLiberty on November 23, 2012 at 4:08 PM
Much of the stimulus went directly to the states. Postponing the day of reckoning. If he does it again, it will just reward the profligacy of these Democratic states.
Paul-Cincy on November 23, 2012 at 4:10 PM
Hey, dummkopf, I wondered what Washington would look like under one party rule in 2008… By 2009, we all found out.
Timin203 on November 23, 2012 at 4:12 PM
All according to plan.
Rebar on November 23, 2012 at 4:22 PM
I hope (and it’s hoping a lot from the spineless Stupid Party) that the GOP would propose eliminating the deduction for state and local taxes as part of federal tax reform.
Let the blue state taxpayers really feel the tax burdens for which they have voted.
Wethal on November 23, 2012 at 4:25 PM
Personally I think this is a very good thing for several reasons, most importantly; it will allow for true experimentation and for people to see which model works best; a constitutional Red state model or the socialist, anti-constitutional Blue state model.
It will also allow Red states to finally exercise the 10th Amendment and seize back powers that the federal government has usurped since the New Deal and perhaps even since the end of the Civil War.
Red states can act together to thwart the statist agenda by refusing to comply with unconstitutional federal legislation including Obamacare.
I’d like to see Red states enact legislation that is outright hostile to Blue state ideology including making it very difficult to qualify for any publicly funded, income based benefits (handouts). Only the truly needy should qualify and benefits should be available for a limited time only.
Red states should eliminate income taxes on both individuals and businesses.
Red states should enact strict immigration controls to drive out illegals.
If these actions result in the parasites moving to Blue states then great! That should be the goal. If Liberals want to be generous with other people’s money then at least confine it to the money of their fellow state residents.
Charlemagne on November 23, 2012 at 4:40 PM
Blue states should welcome parasites … right?
darwin on November 23, 2012 at 4:59 PM
Who said anything about welcoming them? I wrote that’s policies enacted in Red states that are hostile to moochers would drive them to Blue states.
And it is Blue state liberalism that spawned the welfare state and continues pushing for its growth so let them have the moochers.
Charlemagne on November 23, 2012 at 5:30 PM