Replies

He seems to be getting a lot done against all kids of opposition.

Things like $20 billion in new taxes? Undercutting the Driver's License initiative? Continuing to spend in excess of revenue? Imposing onerous enviralmental plans? New gun control legislation?

Oh, I know! You must be referring to his promise of a top-to-bottom publicly transparent review of the Governor's office proceedings. No, wait, he hasn't gotten to that yet. Maybe his veto of the license plate increase? No, that was done by the legislature to forestall an initiative to make it permanent. Must be his refusal to overspend in excess of what is already overspent on the Teacher's Union Security Act. Or his yet to be voted on slate of initiatives.

Here's the things that got Grey kicked out: Spending more than we take in - we still do. Bad energy deals - some progress. Bad union contracts - problem kicked down the road. Insufficient power generation - no change. Licenses for illegal aliens - still playing footsie with Gil Cedillo.

He seems to be getting a lot done against all kids of opposition.

Snicker.

Although it's been a while since I updated it, here's my current list of the "lot" that Arnold "got done":

He supported a Sierra Nevada Conservancy that Gray Davis vetoed, authored by a socialist from Santa Cruz.
He has a appointed member of the Sierra Club hierarchy to the CalEPA.
His hydrogen fuels program is a thinly veiled corporate agricultural scam.
He didn't lift a finger to stop gay marriage and has signed "domestic partners" legislation that violates in spirit, if not in letter, Proposition 22.
He continues to negotiate with Cedillo on drivers' licenses for illegals.
The prison guards rolled him completely for a pittance now in return for more later.
He "negotiated" minute concessions from the universities in return for more money later.
He grabbed revenues from cities and counties with a promise to return it later.
He "negotiated" a minute reduction in workman's comp premiums when all he had to do was copy Arizona's plan and put it on the ballot.
He signed SB 50.
He's raising more campaign money faster than Davis ever did, INCLUDING from the tribes he swore he would never solicit. In return for that he got a pittance compared to his the amount of gambling revenue he was boasting he would get. My bet is that the revenue won't even offset the direct cost of State social programs to deal with the results of gambling. Instead, he is well on his way to implementing organized gambling statewide.
His planned "deregulation" of electrical rates has totally ignored the illegal contracts Davis' people negotiated under a conflict of interest.
He used his popularity to foist a constitutional amendment that makes it possible for the State to balance a budget by borrowing and called it "cutting up the credit cards." From McClintock's analysis of 58 (http://republican.sen.ca.gov/web/mcclintock/article_detail.asp?PID=262): "The second assumption is that Proposition 58 “tears up the credit cards” to assure the state never borrows to balance its budget again. Unfortunately, it doesn’t. Proposition 58 made no practical change in current law beyond suspending the oldest provision of the state constitution that for 154 years has prevented exactly the kind of borrowing that Proposition 57 now begins. "Under the “Balanced Budget Amendment,” a balanced budget is whatever the legislature says it is. Every one of the budgets that got California into financial difficulty was defined by the legislature as “balanced.” California’s budget deficits are the result of uncontrolled spending and dishonest accounting -- and the short-term borrowing to cover them -- and Proposition 58 does nothing to change that."
He opposed Prop 54 (Racial Privacy), calling Ward Connerly et al., "Right wing crazies."
He didn't support the Save Our State initiative.
He abandoned the spending cap.
He endorsed Proposition 68 supporting open primaries, a proposal similar to Louisiana's famously corrupt election system.
He backed the $3 Billion Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Proposition 71
He tried to co-optTed Costa's effort to give California a just reapportionment system with one of his own and then quietly dumped his highly publicized effort in favor of Costa’s.
He appointed a socialist labor activist to run the State Employment Development Department
He appointed a person who advocates tracking every mile you drive and charging you for it as head of the DMV.
On the plus side he appointed a talented auditor, Donna Arduin, to be Finance Director, but then didn't listen to her.
He killed the Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority.
He appointed Tom Campbell to be Finance Director. We'll see if Arnold listens to him.
He appointed Nancy Drinkard to the Board of Forestry (an outstanding candidate).
He appointed Andrea Hoch to the state Division of Workers’ Compensation.

Other than that, he's doing a great job.

The guy's a lying weasel who speaks out of both sides of his mouth. That you so ardently support him, A CACA Guy is demonstrative of your foolish credulity.