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Democrat California State Senate leader Darrell Steinberg got his one Republican vote in the name of Republican Senator Abel Maldonado and with it the California Legislature went on to approve the state budget with tax increases.

Voting at dawn to end a three-month impasse, the California Legislature passed a budget package that addresses the state’s massive deficit with billions of dollars in new taxes and program cuts after Democrats and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reached a deal with a GOP holdout.

Sen. Abel Maldonado of Santa Maria provided the final Republican vote needed to pass a spending plan, which includes more than $12 billion in tax hikes. In exchange, Democrats agreed to rewrite election rules that Maldonado said had allowed the Capitol to become paralyzed by partisanship, leading the state to the brink of financial ruin.

And, the funny thing is that this budget does not solve California’s long term structural budget deficit problems and relies on a special election on May 19, 2009 to ratify some of the funding changes.

GOP Senator Maldonado in speaking in favor of the state budget acknowledged that his political careeer may be over in voting for these tax increases.

Maldonado is at least RIGHT on this.

More later…..

The Obama Honeymoon is over:“The government is promoting bad behavior… do we really want to subsidize the losers’ mortgages… This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor’s mortgage? President Obama are you listening? How about we all stop paying our mortgage! It’s a moral hazard….”

Watch the video here calling for a new Boston Tea Party this summer.

Yeah, the Obama honeymoon is over.

Kathleen Parker, a supposed conservative columnist for the Washington Post (remember how she bagged on Sarah Palin during the 2008 Presidential Campaign) has written a piece that is absolutely nauseating.

In fact, Flap cannot bear to link to the piece.

Read Michelle’s commentary here.

You have been warned. Bring the Tums or Pepmo Bismol.

Remember the late 1970′s, Jimmy Carter, Democrats in control of the Congress, Hyperinflation and Economic Malaise?

Here we go again – It is just starting folks.

Inflation at the wholesale level surged unexpectedly in January, reflecting sharply higher prices for gasoline and other energy products.

The Labor Department said Thursday that wholesale prices increased by 0.8 percent last month, the biggest gain since last July and well above the 0.2 percent increase that economists had expected.

The acceleration was led by a 3.7 percent surge in energy prices with gasoline prices jumping by 15 percent, the biggest gain in 14 months.

Even outside the volatile food and energy sectors, wholesale prices showed a bigger-than-expected increase, rising by 0.4 percent. Economists had expected a slight 0.1 percent rise in so-called core inflation.

We Will need another Ronald Reagan to rein in government spending to right the Obama/Democrat economy.

California Senior U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein is 76 years old and it is OXYMORONIC that she is Chair of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee. What a boner.

And, to think the BUZZ is strong that she wishes to return to California and run for Governor in 2010.

Wow!

A choice in the Democrat primary election between 70 year old former California Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown and Di Fi? Such a choice.

California is doomed – especially since in the last hour the California Legislature controlled by the Democrats rammed through an out of balance state budget that increases taxes to boot.

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