"California has been the slate on which liberalism boldly writes its recipe for decline---high taxes, heavy regulation, subservience to public employees unions, and environmentalism that is simultaneously apocalyptic and chiliastic."
"...California's calamitous present---creative accounting as a rickety bridge to the next budget crisis, coming soon---might prefigure the nation's future..."
"Republicans are a shriveling tribe: Their registration is at a record low 31.1 percent, and they do not have a majority of registered voters in any of California's 53 congressional districts. Democrats have a registration majority in 20 districts, and a statewide registration advantage of more than 2 million and growing."
-George F. Will
