Posted on 05/19/2009 9:17:15 AM PDT by bmweezer
In 2003, I traveled to San Francisco to witness first-hand what voters in California had just done: throwing out of office their just-re-elected governor (Gray Davis), replacing him with Mr. Terminator himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
While Mr. Schwarzenegger had absolutely zero political experience (unless you call being America’s Presidential Fitness Czar, political), much of the left-coast was excited about the new California governor and rightly so.
However, after nearly six years in office, the bloom has certainly fallen off of Schwarzenegger, who after presiding over worst economic conditions than his predecessor, finds himself with ever-lowering approval ratings and a fiscal crisis that seems to be getting worse, much due to his own doing. By advocating strings of tax increases and more and more regulations, Schwarzenegger has ruined a good state. And today, the governor is asking California voters (again) to help him raise their taxes and approve a set of propositions that will give the state government more control over the lives of its citizens and take more out of their pockets. Luckily, if polls are to believed, California voters have finally had enough and will likely strike down much of what the governor wants.
Politicians like Schwarzenegger believe in a premise that is flawed from the onset: the state knows best. By raising taxes, increasing government control through regulations and using its power to define what is and isn’t moral, the state of California, is drifting into an abyss. However, to politicians such as Schwarzenegger and President Obama, the problem is that not enough has been done and hence, that is the problem. Until elected officials realize that America is best when it is free to roam, our problems will continue.
It is often said that so goes Calfornia, so goes the nation. Let us hope not, unless today becomes the first day in a long time that California pushes back against those that continue to push it down.
Schwarzenegger is a disappointment..
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I think he is more than that..
We got Ahhnold for the same reason we got bambi, image and cult popularity, not because of his supposed conservatism. He turned out to be about as good as bambi too. We got an American Idol electorate, all TF they care about is coolness and image, issues, morality, integrity be damned.
Ugh!
Arnold has become the poster child for a RINO. He is for all intense and purposes a dimocRAT. He along with the Kalifornia state legislature have bankrupted the state.
Schwarzenegger isn’t a disappointment. Anyone could see after two months in office where he was coming from and where he was headed.
Politicians just don’t get that government needs to contract right now, just like business.
Actually, bad times economically is really the only time government will get smaller, so the situation does have some positives—if only Ahnold and his ilk would stop stomping on the throats of the productive.
Hey Awnuld!.....California gets to let you know today what they think of your tax hikes! Now all together...The Bronx cheer six times for Awnuld!
I’ve already voted this morning....hey Awnuld....
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
California can’t be ruled by any governer the state is ruled by democrats for the last twenty years and look at the mess the state is in.
Hubby and I went to the polls this morning to vote NO on the governators massive tax measures. Just wanted him to know what we thought of the job he is doing.
what no captain obvious posts?
Ya THINK!!???
Saying the Governator is a disappointment is like saying the Titanic had a problem with ice.
RINOs take note: This is what happens when you try to be everything to everyone, and co-opt leftist issues. You lose support from your conservative base, and liberals will just want more and will stab you in the back. I would have been happy if Arnold governed more as a libertarian and left social issues alone rather than a true conservative Republican given CA’s dilemma. But he didn’t even do that, he has turned into a complete statist liberal Republican.
Yeah. Well, I was trying to be considerate.
...And SOME of us knew what he was BEFORE the Recall vote, and why some of us opposed him as vigorously as we did (even at the risk of losing our FR accounts).
Above all else, what Arnold is, is a coward. He was all for cutting spending etc. when he first took office, he sounded, and acted, like a conservative. All it took was one defeat at the polls, his props that didn't make it because he failed to educate people enough and because voter fraud once again raised its head, and he became a flaming liberal because, more than anything else, he wanted to be liked. He caved in out of cowardice, instead of doing what he knew was right he did what would gain him acceptance, both at home and in the legislature and, HE THOUGHT, but was wrong, with the people.
He is a typical political coward, more concerned about his power than about what is right for the state and the people in it.
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