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California's Legislature is terribly unpopular. In March, just 16 percent of the public approved of the job the lawmakers were doing. So there was a collective cheer you could almost hear from San Diego to Eureka when the…

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks through the halls of the U.S. Capitol November 15, 2010. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday he wasn't interested in discussing the negative economic consequences that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben…