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The Kick Was . . .

Let’s say that UCLA and USC were engaged in a tight football game that was coming down to the last play. USC was behind by two points and was going to kick a field goal which, if successful, would give them the win. The kick was . . .

The attempt was wide, and so it appeared that the game was over. However, the officials (coincidentally all USC alumni) huddled up and decided to change the rules, so that now the new rules allowed a second field goal try if the first try was not good! The president of USC called this decision “eminently reasonable”, and so USC got another try. The (second) kick was . . .

Would anyone think that it was ethical to change the rules in the middle of a game?

Would anyone think that the officials vote to change the rules was reasonable?

Would anyone think that the opinion of the president of USC was unbiased?

To any rational person the answer to the above questions would be not only “NO”, but “HELL NO!”

However, welcome to California politics! Here on the left coast questionable ethics in politics are not unusual as the members of the Democratic legislature are able to convince each other that just about anything is permissible . . . as long as it is for the good of the home team (the liberal agenda).

In this fictional football rivalry, USC represents the democrats in California, who were favored to win this home football game being played in the L.A. Coliseum. The game officials represent the California Democratic Legislature, who feel entirely comfortable changing the rules in the middle of the game. In California, the Democrats in the legislature feel that it is okay to pass a bill    that changes the rules involving the recall vote of Josh Neuman      (D-Fullerton), even after the requisite number of recall signatures had been collected. Ethics and what is fair are no longer considered, as the important thing is to try to make sure that USC wins (that the Democratic super majority in the California Legislature be maintained).

The president of USC is being played by non-other than the Governor of California, Jerry Brown, who has long ago abandoned any pretense of understanding what “eminently reasonable” actually means. Although he had promised not to raise taxes without a vote of the people, he and his Democratic underlings did just that with their recent gas tax. And to make his definition of “eminently reasonable” even more unreasonable, he is poo-pooing the recent poll by the Institute of Government Studies at U.C. Berkeley that found that the majority of registered voters in California are opposed to this Democratic tax increase.

Now back to the football game. During the game when the UCLA students in the crowd were complaining about some of the calls being made by the officials, the officials had some of their friends escort the complaining students out of the stadium. Now certainly nothing as ludicrous as this could happen in the real world . . . Could it?

In California the answer is, “Yes, as nothing is too far fetched for the Democratic politicians.” In fact, the California Democratic Party (friends of the officials of the football game) have just sued three Cal State Fullerton students for working on the collection of the signatures for the Josh Neuman recall. Amanda McGuire, Brooke Paz, and Ryan Hoskins (UCLA students in our fictitious football game) have been sued by the California Democratic Party because they “misled” the voters. I suppose that if they feel justified in changing the rules of the game as it is being played, what difference does a lawsuit make? – especially if it involves young students whose only crime seems to be that of not agreeing with the game officials!

Welcome to football (politics) California style!

And the kick was . . .

In California politics it really doesn’t matter, as the rules will just change to benefit the Democratic home team.

 

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