MORE ON CALIFORNIA – AT 8:51 P.M. ET:  We did a post this morning asking what was wrong with California.  I've monitored news networks during the day, and, remarkably, they are talking about the same thing.  California was a major center of discussion.

One pundit said that everyone is talking about the state because it's so important.  Let me dissent.  California was important, but I think it's becoming increasingly less so.  There simply comes a point where a state starts acting so irrationally that a large part of the political class writes it off.  In this case, I would imagine that the Republican Party is, at least psychologically, writing off California.

Republicans couldn't make inroads into California in this, the most Republican year in memory.  The California House delegation was barely dented.  It is still filled with left-wing eccentrics and Castroites.  Think Maxine Waters.  Think Pete Stark, who gets into fights on the House floor.  Think Nancy Pelosi.  Think Barbara Lee, the only member of Congress to vote against military action after 9-11.  And think Barbara Boxer. 

And these clowns get elected while the state sinks into bankruptcy and irrelevance.  Companies are leaving California in droves.  It no longer has an aircraft industry.  Even the entertainment industry looks elsewhere to make its films.

California's most prominent export is Code Pink. 

California has developed a flaky, dependent culture.  "California, Here I Come," has become a joke. 

The Republican Party may well abandon California, just turn its back and let the state sink.  There's a limit to patience with this childlike piece of property.  All federal money bills originate in the House of Representatives, now under firm GOP control.  I don't think there'll be any incentive to write checks to a gang of delinquents.

It's really too bad.  This was the state that Ronald Reagan ran.  But it was also a state that adopted too much of the sixties culture. 

Grow up, guys.  The whole world is watching, and falling asleep.

November 3, 2010