California Budget: Jerry Brown Ends Talks on Bipartisan Budget Deal
Well, thanks a whole hell of a lot, GOP. We needed just four of you. Four. And this was just to get the budget on the ballot for a special election in June. You all didn’t even want us to vote on it. For all you know, it might not have passed. We’ll never know.
The State Democrats conceded to $12B in cuts. $12B. Getting Democrats to cut that much was huge, especially when we have the majority. Doesn’t the GOP realize what a miracle that was?
The GOP doesn’t want the rest of the budget deficit ($12B) to be closed by tax extensions. Extensions. These weren’t even new taxes! The GOP refused to meet halfway. Absolutely ridiculous.
Jerry Brown’s next move is to get signatures going for a new tax initiative. Why is it new? Because those taxes that he wanted to extend expire in July. So, for a November election, he’d have to sell the public on new ones.
You just wouldn’t compromise, huh GOP? Thanks for nothing.
Cue IOUs. Again.
Spinny Liberal 
March 31st, 2011 at 12:52 PM
I see the GOP is about that same no matter where they live….sorry….at least you have a Dem majority…as if it will do any good….but it sounds good….
March 31st, 2011 at 1:35 PM
Yeah, at least it sounds good. I will cling to one good thing – at least we don’t have Meg “the Megalomaniac” Whitman as governor. If she won, we’d see the Scott Walker stuff happening here.
March 31st, 2011 at 3:48 PM
Cry for me…Haley Barbour is my governor…
March 31st, 2011 at 3:57 PM
Wow, you win. Yikes!
March 31st, 2011 at 7:54 PM
What I took out of that was a Democratic majority and governor cut $12B in funding for children, schools, and other wonderful programs. Geez.
Don’t Democrats care at all?
Pssh.
April 1st, 2011 at 9:03 AM
That’s what you got out of it? Then I wasn’t clear. To clarify:
The GOP of the CA state legislature sucks and doesn’t know what compromise means.