re: #112 Daniel Ballard

So, this year, the Democrats are going around the obstructionism of the GOP on the budget by taking a tax increase to a popular vote.

Doesn’t that easily demonstrate what I and goddamnedfrank said? That the supermajority necessary to pass budgets allows the minority party— the GOP— to obstruct the budget?

In many ways, the situation in California predicted that in the US at large; the GOP became more and more obstinant, less and less willing to compromise, and started hostage taking with every budget.

The main difference being that the California GOP generally was obstructing not just to gut any tax increases, but also to add their own pork barrel spending.