Headline Of The Century

This has to be the funniest headline I've read in years:

Obama: Washington Needs to Be More Like California

Yeah. Right. Pelosi must be just fucking beaming.

While I appreciate any shout-out to my home state, what California's Democratic elite are "about" is enabling their union backers to drive a once-thriving economy into a bottomless pit of unemployment, perennially busted budgets, and unfunded pension contributions that transcend most human comprehension. This is not a spirit Washington should try to "recapture," unless the goal is 12.6 percent unemployment (with a bullet!), a credit rating hurtling toward junk-bond status, and a perpetual round of bailouts from a faraway government entity.

-Matt Welch

Yup. That's just what this country needs. More Californication of America.

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