[ambrose]

ping!

[Amerigomag]

Only two Republican senators voted for the compromise.

I was surprised the senate Repbulicans held their ground. I was not surprised a Hollywood liberal try to shove it down their throats.

[2banana]

Stay away from CA in the next few years...

[expatpat]

The Terminator seems to have been taken to the cleaners!

[John Lenin]

I'm voting NO on the bonds. Without the spending caps the RATS will be selling bonds every year to pay the deficit. Sorry Arnie, you blew it !

[winker]

There is no instant gratification to be had in all this mess. Nobody likes the thought of fiscal restraints or being strapped with an oppressive Budget situation. The party is over guys & dolls. The Valley Girl existence has now got to be paid for. Many cannot fathom the depth of what has now got to be provided for. For some the cure is too much to manage or be concerned with. Pure and simple the Conservative image every liberal hates has finally positioned itself squarely in your face. This is a pay out plan that will hurt everyone equally. You all bought into the game and have now got "left" holding the bag. If you have to TATTOO this on your foreheads do it. "You Accumulate By Not Spending" Rome was not built in a day and this problem won't go away tomorrow; now the Barbarian Bill Collectors are hammering at your Gates!

[TheAngryClam]

To everyone who said that Arnold was a "fiscal conservative," and that the GOP was solidly behind him, and that this deal was an Arnold victory, I have the following questions for you:

How is it that Arnold could only get two GOP senators to support this bill, when many more than that endorsed him in the election?

How can you consider this anything other than John Burton and the Senate Democrats bending Arnold over the negotiating table and having their way with him?

How can you call something supported almost wholly by the people responsible for the California budget debacle "fiscally conservative?"

and, finally, how do you sleep at night after the litany of BS you spew every day in support of frauds like Arnold Schwarzenegger?

[MJY1288]

I wonder if Dan Weintraub was scratching his head over the Gray Davis budgets? I'm not a Californian so I probably shouldn't say anything, but just the fact that Schwarzenegger was able to get anything out of State Assembly dominated by the RATS is a good start. I'm no Arnold fan, and if I was a resident of California, I would have voted for McClintock. But before this guy Dan Weintraub starts ridiculing Arnold's budget, I want to know where he was when Davis was plowing through the state's treasury like tractor trailer sized Hoover Vacuum and emptying it's contents at the feet of every special interest group that would guarantee their votes in the next election.

[concentric circles]

Arnold's Budget Deal Sealed with Stories, Cigars
"Wesson said he and the governor... would occasionally retreat to Schwarzenegger's private, inner office to work out key disputes. Most of the time, Wesson said, the two would return with a compromise deal."

Oh man, and here I was feeling all warm and fuzzy about our self sacrificing public servants. Way to rain on our parade, Weintraub.

Now I've got to recapture that feeling. Where did I see that recipe for Tom and Jerry's?

[Lancey Howard]

I continue to wonder if any of this stuff matters in the long run because the well is dry and Arnold and the Republicans will never let the scumbag Democrats raise taxes, not in a million years. Arnold promised.

[ask]

foreigners buying up America

[tubebender]

The voters of Caulifawnia gave Arnold a great new secret weapon to take to Sac but Arnie loaded it with blanks. I am embarrassed even though I voted for McClintock...

[pogo101]

Now we need to get a referendum on the November '04 ballot -- when all the conservatives will be turning out anyway, more so than in March -- to correct the shortcomings that Weintraub so commendably cites!

[John Jorsett]

Unfathomable to me is Schwarzenegger's promise to not even support a citizen initiative to impose a spending cap. He really wimped out on that one. His weakness means we the people will just have to take the state back one initiative at a time, and without his help.

[nmh]

Why is anyone suprised? He's Demoncrat in drag.