It’s getting to the point where I’m not sure how much more of this stupid crap an ol’ Okie can take. The CA legislature (dominated by its Democrats) is never a beacon of clarity and insight, but this last week has shown them at their worst.

First, as Capt. Ed reported:

The California Assembly passed a bill on a party-line vote yesterday that would eliminate private health care and force Californians into a single-payer state-run medical system. It now falls to Arnold Schwarzenegger to determine whether he will reverse his previous stand against state-run health care or adopt the Golden State version of HillaryCare[.]

Yeah, here we go . . . that ol’ Utopian single payer health care for everyone working so great in Canada that the seriously ill abandon their system and cross the border for care in the US, if they can afford it . . . now coming to good ol’ CA. All one has to do is look at the condition of California’s highways and freeways, the low ranking of its public schools, its crumbling energy infrastructure and continuous budget deficits to see that this state has about as much ability to run a single-payer health care system as I do to fly without wings. Not to mention how it will be funded — oh yeah, the legislative panacea for everything — raise taxes. As per the Capt.:

[Taxes would be raised] an additional 8 percent on the payroll tax that businesses pay and a 3 point hike on the state income tax.

That should keep ‘em comin’ to ol’ Cali’ . . . NOT!

Second: AB 523, which passed the CA legislature Thurs. eve. Think that you have freedom of religion? Well, maybe not in California — or at least maybe you are a second class citizen, or maybe, you’re not a citizen, or maybe, you just shouldn’t be allowed to have a TV station license — yeah, that’s the ticket! If you have anything to do with the CHRISTIAN religion, keep your grubby little theocratic paws off our TV stations out here in CA — that’s what the Democratic controlled Legislature is saying with AB 523. Hugh Hewitt puts it this way:

It seems obvious that the California legislature has engaged in a naked bit of religious discrimination, changing the rules relating to the sale of public assets so as to exclude a religious organization.

Imagine if public land was for sale, but the Congress forbade its sale to the highest bidder if that bidder was the Catholic Church.

Or if a local government offered grants to charities housing the poor, but excluded all such charities that were faith based.

The legislated manipulation of the rules relating to the sale of this station should not have to reach a federal court to be rejected. Arnold should veto the bill quickly, with a message back to the legislature that the First Amendment, both in its religion clauses and speech clause, prohibit the government from discriminating against religious speech.

So what if the bidding process was fair, and that the religious group’s bid was $40M (cash) and the next bid was $22M or so, much of that on paper, and so what if the monies would go to the CA college system (in dire need of funds) — the Left out here is so deathly AFRAID of Christians that they would rather eat a good 20-million-dollars that should be going to the schools just to stick it to the religious Right!

Third: In the land of Count Every Vote — Every Vote Counts! comes this brilliant piece of brainiac-Leftist nonsense. From the Opinion Journal comes the skinny:

[L]ast week the California Senate passed legislation to award the state’s Electoral College votes to the candidate who has received the most popular votes nationally–whether Californians chose him or not. A similar bill passed the Assembly on May 30, so it will soon be up to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign or veto the bill. Such a bill also passed the Colorado Senate in April, part of a national effort to change the way we choose our presidents. The mandate doesn’t take effect until enough other states sign on to provide a majority of electoral votes. If it were in effect in 2004, George W. Bush would have taken California’s 55 electoral votes, even though John Kerry carried the state by a margin of nearly 10%.

Now that’s rich! Trying to make an end run around the Constitution, those Democrats writing laws for the great state of California would have our Presidential election votes held hostage to the nation’s will at large. Regardless of how the people of CA vote, if the nation votes differently, CA voters get screwed! What a crap-load of me too ism. “If it were in effect in 2004, George W. Bush would have taken California’s 55 electoral votes” should be enough in itself to have put that one in the round file where it belongs, but noooooooo — it defies the Leftist “count every vote” mantra, it defies reason — unless of course, you hate the Constitution as the Framers designed it. Here’s how Patterico puts it:

Here’s how bizarre this law is: in 2004, Bush would have gotten California’s electoral votes — which he didn’t need, and which the state’s voters certainly didn’t intend.

In 2000, Gore would have gotten the electoral votes — but then, he got them anyway.

What a stupid law this would be.

Wish I could say, “only in California”, but as per the OJ, Colorado passed something similar in April. Election 2000 spooked the Left so much, that they want to change how we vote for the President, and they aren’t about to try and do it the Constitutional way, via Amendment — nah, that’s not their style. They like changing the culture and governance of the nation via judicial fiat, or by proposition, or in this case, by stupid state legislation.

Arnold needs to veto all three of these!

The Great State of California — Totally Stuck on Stupid! Go west ol’ man — go west! Wait — Hawaii’s worse! Arrrrrrgh!!!! (db)

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