The crime rate has plunged to its lowest point in a generation. The economy is booming.
Inflation is nearly invisible.
Taxes have been cut in California the budget balanced in Washington. In short, Republican ideas have triumphed. Tough crime legislation, fiscal responsibility, lower taxes, a balanced budget, job creation, welfare reform - those are ideas that Republicans have enthusiastically advocated for years. Only lately have some Democrats grudgingly accepted them, becoming born-again tax cutters, crime fighters and welfare reformers. Now the issue of greatest importance to Californians is education, and once again Democrats are adopting Republican ideas as if they were their own.