by the Left Coast Rebel

(Editor’s note: Leslie Eastman wrote on a similar topic as my Daily Caller piece, San Diego “Rulers” Use Boy’s Death for Tax Grab – it’s a must read.)

I have a little bit of news here and some background. C-Gen and I have been bantering back and forth recently, earnestly licking our writing-chops as to how-to-get published at some of the big sites. C-Gen has been on American Thinker twice with great material and we both wanted to ‘break in’ to the Daily Caller to increase our street cred.

After all, the Daily Caller is still on the up-and-up and positioning to be the Puff-Ho (Smitty’s term of endearment) killer of political talk on the net. Wes Messamore from THL (designer of my site and libertarian friend) had just gotten published at the Daily Caller too so the need seemed to be all that more urgent.

I digress, recently C-Gen wrote up a brilliant piece that we were both editing and adding to and got a bit frustrated with the endeavor. From this perspective I awoke early and refreshed and came up with a random thought to write a piece about California for DC that Mrs. LCR had emailed me, in the email she sent the subject line was ”Calling Chris Christie” in reference to the clear need in CA for tough leadership to fight the union-cabal that controls the state. So right off the bat I had at title (that I changed a bit for the Daily Caller) that later changed to “Paging Chris Christie“.

In about an hour and a half I wrote up a fairly decent opinion piece and then subsequently spent nearly two hours editing and re-editing the darn thing. It was a lot of work but I was proud of the final result. I’ve learned a lot writing so much in the last year and half and covering (typically with dismay and outrage) the body-politic around us.

So please pass along my first (of hopefully many) Daily Caller pieces, it’s titled, “Ringing the bell at the top: Paging Chris Christie”

Please ‘Digg’, tweet and re-tweet this, email it and send it to your friends via Facebook. The links to do so are at the bottom of my article.

Updated: The federal budget deficit will exceed $1.4 trillion in 2010 and 2011 according to a report in the Washington Post, not to mention the Obamanation’s push for permanent unemployment extensions. Does the nation really need my piece in the Daily Caller to point them to where this nation is heading?

Can you say Greece?

Updated x2:Links so far (7/23) to the Daily Caller piece:

• Weasel Zippers links in the Zip Wire, thanks!
• Right Klik also links too, keep up the great work with TBF!
• Robbing America links, thanks!
• Smitty links via. The Other McCain (explained below), thanks!
  
• Landshark links too, much appreciated.
• USA Partisan links as well – props!
• The ever-lovely MAinfo tweeted to 3,000 people, thanks a million.
• Dan Riehl over at RiehlWorldView links as well – THANK YOU, Dan!
• Fellow San Diegan Leslie Eastman at Mut links on a piece that she wrote that mentions Bell, CA as well. Thanks, Leslie!
• I got Caught with a Corndog, too!
• American Power links too, thanks!
  
• RightGuy links too, (away from a hopefully brief respit) thanks!
• Professor Jacobson goes an extra step and makes the Daily Caller piece, post of the day, thanks!
• Proof Positive along with Rational Nation, Allied Liberty News, War Planner help with cross posts.
• War Planner has a bourbon-laden evening in celebration.
  
• My Thoughts on Freedom links, thanks!
• Graphic-Goddess No Sheeples Here links and also puts forth a must-read article on the same topic herself. Favors, spades and linky love heading your way, Carol!
• WhatMakesUsRight links, thanks!
• Pat in Shreveport linked too, thanks!
• 7/24 Saberpoint links too, thanks!
  
• 7/24, Eric Dondero at Libertarian Republican links, thanks!
• 7/24 Beers With Demo links too, thanks!
• 7/26/10 Anti-Republican Culture links, thanks!
• 7/26/10 Last Tradition links too, thanks!
• 7/27 Reagan Conservatives links, nice to meet you!
  

Updated x3: Burning down the house, my Daily Caller piece is headlining with it’s own Memeorandum thread!:


Updated x4: The best blogger-team evah and perhaps my biggest inspiration when I started doing this devotes an entire post: Tim Daniel Makes The Daily Caller Without JournoList Membership



Love the title – although I cringe just a bit when I see my FULL LEGAL NAME on the net (well, almost full – you still don’t know my middle name and/or full first name). Either way, thanks for the link, Smitty!

Update x5: I grabbed this comment from Weasel Zippers tonight in regards to my piece. Reader Real Bob writes:

In 1978 California was amazing. By 1988, it had dropped from the top 5 for schools to 47th. The reason? Liberals. Classic story. Once they found out they could steal all the money they wanted from the State Treasury AND raise taxes to pay for their gluttony, then sell overrated bonds they knew they couldn’t repay, they just wallowed in their new found “wealth”. It never stopped after that as they sought to regulate everything for a fee to feed their insatiable appetite for more money then more control.

Liberal states are the most regulated states in the country.

By 2000, in just 20 short years, liberals turned California from an entrepreneur’s paradise, maybe the most beautiful state in the country (I’ve been to all of the lowre 48) into a proto-communist, thoroughly repressive welfare state where pollution and environmental/agricultural poison levels are the highest in the country, illegals vote and politicians and judges skate. Now, they’re bankrupt.

It’s all Bush’s fault.

It is painful and pathetic – but this guy is spot-on. Don’t let the Obamanation force this upon your conservative states, America.