Posted on 12/13/2003 6:29:18 PM PST by ambrose
Edited on 04/12/2004 6:02:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The outcome suggests that Schwarzenegger is not as good a negotiator as he thinks he is, or at least those skills weren't evident in this round. He was smart to demand more than he needed and then scale back from there. And he was smart to abandon the concept of a formula-driven spending cap. But in the end, he swung too far in the other direction. This looks as if his only bottom line was ending the negotiations with a deal, any deal. And now, to make it worse, he has begun to try to sell this package as more than it is. He should just admit the truth: this is the best he could get from the Democrats. It's a harmless first step but not nearly enough to achieve the goal he set for himself and the state. More work will have to be done.
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The inability of the average TomBot to understand that is amazing.
Unless you didn't notice, the GOP is for BIG gov't. too!
Unless "We The People" take back the Republic (not likely) the GOP will take us to the same destination as the DemoCraps, but at a slower progression - total moral, economic and spiritual bankruptcy.
You Accumulate By Not Spending" Rome was not built in a day and this problem won't go away tomorrow; now the Bill Collectors are hammering at your Gates!
Maybe that's why the Kali-sheeple elected Conan da Barbarian to fight this fight, too bad they've already outlawed swords in Kali and only outlaws carry them now. ;-)
****BINGO****
South40 must have been badly hungover after his attendance at the "victory" party Friday night.
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