> what if this approach in California
> is a test to see how well Californians can tolerate cuts like these,
> and if there isn't much resistance, the Repubs will go on to inflict it
> on the whole country once Shrub is reelected
I usually think of it as the march of Mordor, but, yeah, that's basically it. Which is why it's so important to defeat the Muscle of Sauron right here on the Left Coast, where the terrain is most favorable (feisty unions, lots of resistance movements, tech entrepreneurs interested in selling to other countries, as opposed to bombing them into the Stone Age and stealing their oil).
We need a hobbit uprising around here.
-- DRR