Congressman Tom McClintock of California's 4th Congressional District delivered this message on the floor of the House of Representatives on January 20.
California Republicans have joined other party faithful across the country in celebrating the Scott Brown win in Massachusetts and believe it will be the political stimulus that the GOP needs heading into this fall's election.
Five years after a budget-busting $3 billion was allocated to embryonic stem cell research, there have been no cures, no therapies and little progress. So supporters are embracing research they once opposed.
Kevin Starr, author of an eight-volume history of the (formerly) Golden State, says California is "on the verge" of becoming something without an American precedent--"a failed state."
David Ignatius writes: California is hardly alone in its fiscal difficulties. Most states are still recovering from the effects of the recession. But even more, they suffer from a chronic inability to resist the impulse to spend big and tax small.
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