... just using it for demagoguery.
* Erika Johnsen, also of HotAir ( @ErikaJohnsen; source: peekURL.com/zCuaJmY ):
As Ed pointed out yesterday, Sen. Rubio is hatching a plan to ‘charge up the middle’ on illegal immigration — and it might not be a moment too soon. The White House has already indicated that they are planning to go full-throttle on prioritizing the immigration issue in a second term,...
... latest example features a post by Erika Johnsen entitled "The coming California supermajority?" ( peekURL.com/ztdStBR ); while she's toned down her anti-California stance since the last time, her readers more than pick up the slack.
First, there are the just-wall-off-California comments, like this one:
The faster conservatives can leave the faster will be CA’s downward spiral. It will be fun to...
... state-by-state table is here, and Erika Johnsen of HotAir discusses it in the completely expected way here.
The study shows Utah residents giving 10.6% of their income, followed by Mississippi (7.2%), Alabama (7.1%), Tennessee (6.6%), and so on.
While those are the highest percentages, in actual dollar terms residents of California give more than than the top eight percentage givers combined (...
... response to the bill, let's turn to Erika Johnsen and the readers of HotAir. From "California senate passes "anti-Arizona" immigration bill" [1] (bolding added):
Once again, here comes California, demonstrating their peculiar knack for proving just how spectacular the invention of federalism is - when states compete, we can aptly see what sort of policies work well, as well as what sort of...
... California.
They've done it yet again, with Erika Johnsen of Townhall (they and HotAir share a parent company) offering "Go west, young man, go west! …Unless you're into being successful" (link).
There isn't much fundamentally different between that and their earlier post. Both present helping corporations as the solution, while ignoring the three million or so illegal aliens present in...