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Tom McClintock warns: the future of America is California.

Back when REAGAN was governor, that verb would have been 'promises.'

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 9th, 2011 at 09:57 AM  | 

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I originally blogged about this speech by Rep. Tom McClintock (R, CA) to the Council for National Policy over at AoSHQ*, but it is simply too good not to share.  Tom’s in full Post-Apocalypse Survival mode in this speech, and you will not find a dull word in it:

I want to welcome this groundbreaking scientific expedition to the savage lands of the Left Coast. You are here in California to answer an important theoretical question and now you have your answer.

Study it. Fear it. And then go home and make sure that it never happens to the rest of the country.

And that’s just the intro.  The rest of the three-page speech is just like the above.

I don’t want to summarize Tom McClintock’s speech too much – I’d rather you read it – but the basic themes of it can be expressed in three bullet points:

  • California was great, once.
  • Then Californians let liberal Democrats take over the government, whereupon everything went to pot.
  • California Republicans need to stop acting like less annoying versions of California Democrats.

The first two points seem relatively straightforward; the third I am not cognizant enough of Californian politics  to assess properly.  Particularly since McClintock’s fourth, not-quite-stated bullet point is:

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger should be taken out front and beaten with sticks.

Which I suppose is to be expected of the man, really.  Still, it’s an excellent speech to read.

Via @KamaainaInOC.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

*As part of my guest-blogging gig over there, which I guess ends today.

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  • johnt

    but maybe California if we’re lucky. Is Obama our own Enver Hoxha?, a lot of potential there.

  • Vegas_Rick

    He hit every nail squarely on the head. I have witnessed the migration from Kalifornistan to Nevada. California plates are every where. So are their left leaning attitudes.

    Thanks for bringing this wonderfull speech to our attention, Moe.

  • macbookben

    …I would have missed a learning opportunity had I not seen your reply (although I only went as deep as the Cliff’s Notes version over at Wikipedia). At any rate, the reference is no longer lost on me. Would Pol Pot work?

  • westcoastpatriette

    the main problem now, is the pit is so deep I don’t know how we’ll ever get out. The problem is self-perpetuating as the liberal morons have driven so many conservatives out of the state, is will take a herculean effort by those of us remaining to turn it around.

  • deVere

    Can anyone convince him to run for President? A very good speech is all Mr. Lincoln needed in 1860.

  • snowshooze

    What a great speech!
    This guy pinned it.
    Thanks for the link Moe.

  • uncmike

    by Rep. McClintock. Thank you for alerting us to it. It does need to be read in its entirety for a full appreciation. I am reminded of Ebenezer Scrooge who, when given the chance to look at the future coming his way, decided it was time to change before it was too late. I hope we all take that to heart.

  • ohiohistorian

    California has to have at least a semblance of a balanced budget, even though they do lots of tricks to do so. Albania had a real GDP growth of 3.9% in 2009. Neither looks like the shape of the US.

    I think we had better take a lesson from Zimbabwe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Zimbabwe It has deteriorated from one of the strongest African economies to one of the world’s worst in only 10 years. Unemployment is about 54%. That is a perfect example of what Obama wants the United States to look like.

  • Tbone

    It has reached the point where the Democrats are paying a majority of voters for their vote either through welfare or a public employee paycheck.

    It will need to run flat broke and the public employees checks won’t clear and the welfare recipients starve to death or get killed trying to steal food from those of us with guns.

  • acat

    “The lawn of liberty must be refreshed, from time to time, with the blood of tyrants” ?

    Mew

  • ThePoliticalHat

    If not at the top, then as Veep.

    I voted for him in the ’03 recall when other “conservatives” said we needed to rally around the “electable” Schwartzenegger.

    Anyone up for a “Draft McClintock” effort?

  • johnt

    mac, as to pol pot, gradualism, of sorts, still exists. Even Stalin waited a few years, and some prosperity, before enterring the end game. Patience still counts, Capone didn’t take over Chicago in a day either.
    And look what the Democratd did there?
    ohio, you restore some faith in humanity within my tired soul. Even from the bowells of hell, Statism, can normalcy or a facsimile emerge.
    But will we live to see 3.9% in the rubble bequeathed to us? I daresay our child president and the harpies who enable him may not leave us much in the way of building blocks. Time and pain will tell.
    Thanks for the responses.

  • Tbone

    the poor guys trying to feed their families.

  • norris

    Rick has it right.

  • tankertodd

    I grew up there. After serving my country I wanted to live there again. But that was not possible. I am a refugee who has been waiting for California to get a clue. That has not happened. I think they’ve crossed the rubicon and now are unable. At this point too many earners have left for other places, and the electorate has fully embraced their fate. Even at the height of the Tea Party Whitman and Fiorina lost. Reform propositions advocated by Schwartzenegger lost. The chances were there for the folks to decide to fix the state and they turned it down. Reelecting Governor Moonbeam is the pinnacle of hilarity.

    I suspect they are now driving Thelma and Louise style towards the cliff, counting on a Federal bailout. They’ll likely get it, despite who is in power.

  • rechts

    “Californians let liberal Democrats take over the government”

    The Californians who produced Reagan and reliable Republican majorities didn’t just hand over the keys. Decades of unrestricted immigration brought in ‘new’ Californians, who vote overwhelmingly Democrat. Leftists succeeded in ‘electing a new people’, and by playing the race card and dolling out benefits to this electorate (see Brown’s new DREAM act), they have ensured close to an unbreakable majority for the foreseeable future.

    The same thing is now happening in other southwestern states. If enough states go the way of the California, the GOP will be done federally as well.

  • mb3986

    Maybe we should let this whole thing play out to its logical conclusion by allowing California to print its own money, There could be no guarnteed conversion to U.S. Dollars. The question would be: How long would it take Jerry Brown and the California Legislature to make California Dollars as valuable as Zimbabwe Dollars?

  • Wayne

    I couldn’t resist making this post. It’s early and I’m behind schedule or will be because of this post and I apologize in advance for not having the time to do my research. However, you should get my point.

    Being a California businessman I have survived the worst economic decline of my career. I could leave (some would say I should), but survival is a success story these days and after spending 3 years sleeping 10 feet away from my desk and working literally 24/7 I have come to the conclusion that we cannot win by retreating. Not even a strategic retreat is advisable with the magnitude of stupidity in Sacramento. One sees the problem everywhere from local government employees, managers and political leaders to the eyes of our youth in passing by. It’s a story expressed on this site in the many bloggs posted daily.

    There are more people in California that believe in the principals this country was founded on than most here realize. In face, most people believe in the principles once they understand them. However, understanding principles and living by them are two very different things aren’t’ they? It is now our responsibility to turn the tide from enabling the basic instincts of human nature to encouraging and educating those who will listen to the importance of limited government.

    In so doing, we will return both locally and nationally to a country of free thinking individuals dedicated to the proposition that all people (had to substitute men for political correctness) are created equal and whose individual rights are of paramount importance and unapologetically declaring that regardless of the perceived obstacles against them, their success or failures were of their own doing.

    Leaving California would be tantamount to accepting failure and turning over the State I love to the progressive thinking that has destroyed so many civilizations throughout history. Don’t think I haven’t suffered for this decision, life could and would be so much better had I taken advantage of opportunities elsewhere. Come back to California if you want to make a difference. Join the Tea Party wherever you are and get to work. The fight is just beginning.

    My two cents…