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Voices
like Greece, or... Spain, or Italy,
or... California.” And that was a big
laugh line with Mormons, because
Greece, Spain and Italy have some
art and poetry and theatre, but
nothing like Salt Lake City. Yes,
Mitt sure hates California, which is
why he moved to San Diego. To the
house with the car elevator.
What conservatives fear about
California being a petri dish for the
liberal agenda is well-founded. For
example, as Obamacare gets implemented here much more successfully than predicted, the movement
to just go all the way to a single
payer system is gathering steam.
It actually passed the legislature
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MAHER
twice, but was vetoed by Schwarzenegger, who argued it didn’t go
far enough to cover the children
of that natural, beautiful love between a man and a cleaning lady.
In lots of areas, California
seems to have decided not to wait
around for the knuckle-draggers
and the selfish libertarian states
to get on board. They can mock
“European style democracies” all
they want, we are building one
here, and people like it — the
same way when Americans come
back from a vacation in Europe
they all say the same thing: “Wow,
you can see titties on the beach!”
But they also remark on the clean
air, the modern, first world infrastructure, the functioning social
safety net, and bread that doesn’t
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Same-sex
couple
Cosgrove
Norstadt
(right)
and Jeff
Foote (left)
embrace
during their
wedding
at San
Francisco’s
City Hall in
California
on June 28,
2013.