The Natives are Getting Restless

That’s how the Instapundit presents Jon Stewart’s excursion off the Messiah’s reservation.

Jon Stewart has never made me laugh. Not even once. But his politics are crystal clear. So when he starts taking jabs like this at The One, it means something.

Update:

Boy, they really are getting restless. This from the L.A. Times.

In fact, back in April at one $3.4-billion spending ceremony for the media, Vice President Joe Biden, who’s got a lot of private meetings to attend but was still assigned to drive the stimulus spending hard, said: “This is jobs — jobs!” Creating or saving a gazillion-point-five jobs used to be the main goal.

Not anymore.

More change. That was April. This is July.

Maybe if they can’t “create” jobs they’ll just “save” some.

It’s Mourning in California

Iowahawk pens the obit.

LOS ANGELES – Millions of fans from around the globe gathered along Sunset Boulevard to pay final respects to California today, as a slow moving funeral procession transported the eccentric superstar state’s remains to its final resting place in a Winchell’s Donuts dumpster in Van Nuys. The self-proclaimed ‘King of Pop Culture’ died last week at 160, in what coroners ruled an accidental case of financial autoerotic asphyxiation. The death sent shock waves across the world and sparked an outpouring of grief by rabid fans.

Will California Save Us From The Messiah?

I hope Kevin Hassett is right.

The California morass has Democrats in Washington trembling. The reason is simple. If Obama’s health-care plan passes, then we may well end up paying for it with federal slips of paper worth less than California’s. Obama has bet everything on passing health care this year. The publicity surrounding the California debt fiasco almost assures his resounding defeat.

I don’t know. Instapundit sees it as more of a bust-out.

You don’t have to be a gangster to bust out a joint, just crooked and greedy. What happens is, shady parties worm their way into a legitimate enterprise and then slowly strip it of all assets, reducing it to a hollow shell, driving it into bankruptcy . . . busting it out.

The ability of politicians to learn from their own mistakes, let alone those of others, is easily overestimated.

Update, and bumped:

Matt Welch is encouraged.

But there’s another interpretation of California’s rebellion, one with far sunnier implications for those of us who prefer our governments constrained. Faced with a political class that ignored bureaucratic inefficiency, that demanded higher taxes, that filled the newspapers with scare stories about people who will literally die as a result of budget cuts, the citizens of one of the bluest states in the nation collectively said we just don’t believe you anymore. If even California’s famous fruits and nuts can call the statists’ bluff, there may be hope for the rest of the country.