Paranoia Strikes Deep

In California, the G.O.P. has essentially shrunk down to a rump party with no interest in actually governing — but that rump remains big enough to prevent anyone else from dealing with the state’s fiscal crisis. If this happens to America as a whole, as it all too easily could, the country could become effectively ungovernable in the midst of an ongoing economic disaster.

IMHO along with the "we don't want to govern" GOP, California's propostion system has damaged the state. Prop 13 can be directly attrubuted to the drop in the state's rankings in education from the top to the bottom in 30 years. (Just as Prop 13's detractors said would happen)