The Daily Bulletin Hails the Lords of the Local GOP

Today's (Sunday, March 22, 2009) Inland Valley Daily Bulletin featured a front page story, with a splashy color photo included, on the unelected kingmakers and agenda-setters for our local Republican party: KFI-AM radio's own John and Ken. Far from being a news story, it was journalistic hero-worship and functioned as little else than a call to arms directed at local anti-tax zealots. Even the fig-leaf of stating that the duo lets the other side be heard on the tax issue, with quotes included, was transparent in its intention of further gilding the crowns on the pandering duos' heads.

What is up at the Daily Bulletin? Does the management think that they can save the conservative establishment in the west end of the Inland Valley from collapsing from its own hubris and corruption by conjuring up a rehash of the late 70s Howard Jarvis movement? Do they expect this blast from the past, which gave us schools near the national bottom and a near- annual state budget crisis, to merge with the pitchfork psuedo-populism of John and Ken, and form a movement that will bring back Reaganism?

We have only ourselves to blame if this farce is allowed to make us forget Commander Codpiece and thirty-eight years of consistent, intentional conservative governmental and fiscal misrule.