tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post2844914106353682578..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-85495279965895326192014-07-22T10:20:47.104-04:002014-07-22T10:20:47.104-04:00The prison and water and food issues would pretty ...The prison and water and food issues would pretty much explain why the inland states might end up the richest rather than the poorest parts of the new dominion...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-73587251947839079252014-07-20T17:58:27.698-04:002014-07-20T17:58:27.698-04:00The Six Californias are shamelessly gerrymandered ...The Six Californias are shamelessly gerrymandered to create four new "Sagebrush Rebellion" Republican states, with eight new U.S. Senators and eight new electoral votes, while creating one new probable Democratic-leaning state with two senators and two electoral votes. Net gain for the right wing: six more U.S. senators out of 110, and six more electoral votes out of 464. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-88215075055312726132014-07-20T17:18:46.121-04:002014-07-20T17:18:46.121-04:00Tom,
Take it easy on yourself.
There's nothi...Tom, <br />Take it easy on yourself.<br /><br />There's nothing right about this idiocy.<br /><br />And that's all you need to say!Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-14560784253278262922014-07-20T16:58:13.737-04:002014-07-20T16:58:13.737-04:00Yeah, the 100% figure was hyperbole. There might w...Yeah, the 100% figure was hyperbole. There might well be some who go for it on purely partisan grounds. But for the most part I think Senators will act in the interests of (not diluting) their own power.<br /><br />DA: hey, when you've got under-performing divisions in your corporation, you unload them on somebody else. Draper is just applying the glorious and infallible logic of the private sector to public governance.<br /><br />(Snark aside, if I got going on everything that's wrong with this idiocy I'd be here all day...)Tom Hiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17575511424823512042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-82486870294125651452014-07-20T15:47:42.036-04:002014-07-20T15:47:42.036-04:00According to George Skelton at the LA Times, the a...According to George Skelton at the LA Times, the area I currently live in would be a state that would be poorer than MS if the scheme went through.Dark Avengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02220642215040873632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-70171530573806343842014-07-20T15:39:17.438-04:002014-07-20T15:39:17.438-04:00"...but preliminary estimates suggest upwards..."...but preliminary estimates suggest upwards of 100% opposition among non-California Senators."<br /><br />I dunno, seems to me some of the more wingnutty ones (a dickhead named "Cruz" comes to mind, for example) would welcome a few more like-minded Senators.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09741578725880869865noreply@blogger.com