California's huge fiscal problem: it's all the Republicans' fault

So writes Ezra Klein in the Washington Post:

Polarization isn't a new story, nor were California's budget problems and constitutional handicap. Yet the state let its political dysfunctions go unaddressed. Most assumed that the legislature's bickering would be cast aside in the face of an emergency. But the intransigence of California's legislators has not softened despite the spiraling unemployment, massive deficits and absence of buoyant growth on the horizon. Quite the opposite, in fact. The minority party spied opportunity in fiscal collapse. If the majority failed to govern the state, then the voters would turn on them, or so the theory went.

That raises a troubling question: What happens when one of the two major parties does not see a political upside in solving problems and has the power to keep those problems from being solved?

Sorry, but no, Mr. Klein. "One of the two major parties" is trying to keep the problem from getting worse. You could take a look, maybe, at Texas and Indiana for how this is done.

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[jorod]

He must mean Illinois. Problems are never solved. Never enough money for the unions...er..I mean education. Etc. There's always a problem that needs more money.