Now we get a Republican Governor
May 27, 2009
I read a quote the other day that said it all about California, “Things are never so bad that they can’t get worse.”
California was in the toilet before, but now, after the May 19 Special Election, we have been flushed down into the pipes and heading for the sewage treatment plant of Republican government.
Extending taxes has been voted down; future spending restraint has been voted down. A rainy day fund voted down. Now Governor Arnold, always a man of the people, is realizing, sorry Maria….he needs to be a Republican now.
So here we go Governor, who after tacking left, is now tacking right. “Cut, Cut, Cut,” he says. 5,000 public employees and more to come “Bye, bye — Out on the street you go!”
Arnold now says after raising taxes, “no new taxes.” And spending cuts are coming a plenty. First, Governor Arnold is going after the weak and the innocent, proposing to completely eliminate the state’s welfare program for families, medical insurance for low-income children and Cal Grants cash assistance to college and university students.
Don’t forget another 5 billion in cuts for public education. Elimination of the department of poison control and emptying of the prisons of inmates so that they can be sold off. HAHAHA!! Ah spending cuts….. This is what I wanted all along. Thank God!! Why do I feel California is becoming a 3rd world nation.
Governor Arnold, you have been a complete failure as governor. I hate to say it but your vacillations in public policy are just bizarre. I have no idea what you are. A Republican? No. A Democrat? No. You are not even an independent. Governor Arnold, you are nuts and you have led us off a cliff.
Now our Republican friends are working on your recall. Maybe it is not as crazy as it sounds. What a sad irony!
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CRP is the party of stupid
May 19, 2009
The California Republican Party (CRP) was once a noble group of Republicans that produced Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Pete Wilson and George Deukmejian and a many others.
But as I look at today’s CRP, I see a party of fools.
Republican activists are trying to recall three GOP legislators and the GOP governor, while the GOP leaders in both houses of the legislature have been forced from their top posts.
The latest bit of stupidity to come down the pike is that the party of conservatism donated $650,000 to Governor Schwarzenegger. Problem is the money is being used to fund the six ballot measures that are actively opposed by the CRP and hated by Republicans.
This is truly a WTF moment.
What is wrong with the CRP that they would let this happen? This political party is in need of deep psychotherapy. Meanwhile events just keep getting more twisted as the party is in complete free fall with no bottom in sight.
Tags: contra costa news, contra costa politics, arnold schwarzenegger, GOP, california politics blog, california politics, california republican party, crpArnold steps out of closet
April 1, 2009
In a news conference today on the steps of the Capitol Building in Sacramento, Arnold Schwarzenegger issued an apology today to all of the members of the legislative Democratic Party in Sacramento today for calling them Girlie Men in 2004.
“Since I issued that statement about the legislators of the state of Californee I have come to realize that I am the Girlie man, not them.
“Since my proclamation in 2004, as I have watched California sink into the abyss of my own making, I have found much solace in cross dressing up in the horseshoe in the Capitol.
“I feel that by coming out I am helping California retailers and I look forward to Nordstrom’s upcoming half-off sale.”
Love and Kisses,
Girlie man ARNOLD
Abel to Arnold, Drop Dead!
February 16, 2009
For the last five years Republicans have been played for stooges by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Gov. Schwarzenegger has left California Republicans hanging out to dry with his self-centered attitude and amateurism when it comes to politics.
One of the tenants of politics is, if I carry water (ie. put my neck neck out) for you on a bill or some other issue that is important to you and the State you will help me when the time comes.
Because he is an actor and not a leader, Gov. Schwarzenegger has yet to grasp this basic rule of politics. A case in point was in 2006 when State Senator Abel Madonado carried water for him on the minimum wage increase and he was paid back by Gov. Schwarzenegger in his 2006 race for state controller by Gov. Schwarzenegger ignoring him. Maldonado lost in the primary.
So here we sit today and California on the brink of financial disaster and Gov. Schwarzenegger needs one Republican vote so who does he turn to but his old friend Senator Madonado. Abel ought to send the Terminator a message and tell Schwarzenegger this time for all of us California Republicans who were sold a load of crap in 2003 and 2006 to DROP DEAD!
The plan’s prospects all but died Sunday morning when Sen. Abel Maldonado, in an interview with the Mercury News, seemed to rule out voting for the measure while pointedly criticizing Schwarzenegger as well as the Republican Senate leader, Dave Cogdill, of Fresno. A moderate Republican whose district stretches from Silicon Valley to San Luis Obispo County, Maldonado was seen as the last best hope for the final GOP vote needed to get the deficit plan over the two-thirds hump.
“I’ve always been a person who’s been open-minded and tried to bring both sides together,” Maldonado said. “But on this one, where they’re asking for almost $15 billion in tax increases, it just goes against what I believe in my heart and my values.” Maldonado added, “There’s nothing they can give me that would make me vote for this budget.” The senator went on to question the leadership of Schwarzenegger and Cogdill.
Maldonado and Schwarzenegger have a tense relationship: In 2006, the senator publicly criticized the governor for not backing his unsuccessful campaign for state controller.
— Another session of negotiations will begin at 8 p.m. this evening. —
See Heads on a Stick campaign at KFI-AM 640
Tags: california budget crisis, budget vote, california politics blog, arnold schwarzenegger, abel maldanaldo, california politicsSchwarzenegger is pathetic
January 19, 2009
As I watched Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger speaking to the legislature during the “2009 California State of the State” address, I was reminded of that old BB King song The Thrill is Gone.
This aging Hollywood actor turned politician is at the end of the line politically. The sizzle is gone from the frying pan and all that is left is cold fat waiting to be scooped out during the house cleaning of the capitol horse shoe in 2010.
Governor Schwarzenegger rode in on a white horse during the recall in 2003 and has led California over a cliff. Rather than attempt any form of meaningful fiscal restraint, The Terminator has continued expanding state spending ten percent per year. Not to mention all of the bonds he has backed.
I am ashamed that I ever voted for or supported him. Like an abusive parent to to a misguided stepchild he has done nothing to make the California State Republican Party a viable political entity. His attainment of the governorship in 2003 actually gave the California GOP a lifeline from the death spiral it was taking. Instead he used them and abused them in 2005 with his massive ballot initiatives and did nothing to help campaign for Republicans in key races in 2006.
Now he stands alone a leader without a party or public support to lead the state of California.
With California on the verge of financial collapse this was Governor Schwarzenegger’s opportunity to galvanize public opinion to pressure lawmakers try to get a deal worked out; to give poor tax payers some hope that we will get our fiscal house in order. Instead we were treated to an economy and budget swirling down the drain.
He said he would “blow up the box.” But he said nothing after elected. And does nothing (up to recently he was only in Sacramento two days a week). He patted the legislature on the head and said “you are gude boys and ghurls. Now I vant you do your homevork and get gude glades for the people of Caleefornya.”
How Pathetic!!
In 2010 there will be a chance to elect a new governor. As far as I am concerned, I will be looking for hard political experience as my guideline for electing a governor. I am not interested in the current crop of billionaires who are running as Republicans. That is exactly the same mistake we made with Governor Schwarzenegger.
Republican voters need to understand that government is not a business. It cannot be run that way. But neither should Republican politics run like a white glove tea party, because, as we know, Democratic Legislatures in Sacramento eat California businesses for breakfast.
I say give me a hard core, deal-cutting fiscally responsible politician to run this state. How about a Republican version of Ed Rendell. Or as I have said before Governor Blago will be shortly looking for a job!
Tell us who you think fits the bill!
Tags: republican party, governor, contra costa news, arnold schwarzenegger, GOP, contra costa, california politics, california, contra costa politics, 2010 election, california politics blogDemocrats react to budget plan
January 1, 2009
Craig Cheslog, local blogger and a representative of Assemblyman Tom Torlakson’s office, makes some interesting observations on the he-says-she-says status California budget negotiations.
In reponse (I believe) to Speaker Karen Bass’s explanation that “legislative leaders have compromised,” Cheslog writes, “The Democrats have been compromising with themselves on the state budget crisis. The Democrats have agreed to horrible spending cuts and other measures that go against their interest groups…The myth of bipartisan intransigence may be a more interesting story for state pundits to tell, but this fiction does nothing to move the state towards a solution to this problem.”
Here is the Bloomberg report on the plan Governor “blow the box up” Schwarzenegger proposed on December 31.
Here is the transcript of Speaker Bass’s reactions to the Governor’s proposed budget plan
Will the last sane adult leaving California please remember to turn out the lights?
Tags: california politics blog, democrats, craig cheslog, contra costa politics, contra costa news, assembly, contra costa, california politics, politics, karen bass, budget, tom torlaksonSchwarzenegger on 60 Minutes
December 22, 2008
60 Minutes interviewed Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to talk about financial crisis facing California.
Howard Jarvis group bemoans CalTax fat cats
September 11, 2008
PLEASE SEE MOST CURRENT POST RE HJTA CALL FOR NO NEW TAXES IN CALIFORNIA
The fat cats keep getting fatter! John Coupal, of California’s Howard Jarvis Tax watchdog group, recently published a scathing editorial excoriating the California Taxpayers Association for caving under pressure to Governor Schwarzenegger’s $10 billion dollar tax increase. As if taxpayers don’t already pay too much in taxes.
Sadly, much of Coupal’s jeremiad will fall on deaf ears as California businesses know they can pass on costs to make consumers and the poor pay for any tax increase. This smug corporatism of big business, big labor, and big government is the death knell of prosperity for California that is bound to erode individual freedoms, as well. But every election, Republicans and Democrats buy into this madness.
Tags: tax increase, california politics, california, howard jarvis, budget negotiations, california politics blog, arnold schwarzenegger, california taxpayers association, governor arnold schwarzenegger, jon coupalPrison guards threaten recall of Governor Schwarzenegger
September 8, 2008
The Sac Bee reports that the California prison guard union is threatening to launch a recall campaign against Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. What ingrates. Best paying gubbermint job in California that doesn’t require a high school reading level.
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