Hogwash, Hewitt. The recall *was* the realignment or as best as we could muster in the Democrat paradise of CA. That more has not been done to support Arnold, that his first year was "squandered" in trying to play mr nice bipartisan... he was a totally unprepared for the insular culture of legislature and how nasty the unions would get. That the GOP vets didn't HELP him and educate him and guide him until he got up to speed is SHAMEFUL. He singlehandedly offered the GOP a golden opportunity to reform CA by getting elected. All I see is tearing him down for being too environmentalist friendly, for not being a McClintock clone and never any credit for his efforts which have the CA economy rolling along again with a less business-adverse climate, NO NEW TAXES, reversed the car tax, killed illegal alien driver's licenses, boldly supported the Minute Men while Bush called them vigilantes, saved 3-strikes, is servicing the debt early and with his reforms taking the fight to the people. Look you, and Hewitt and others around CA *MUST* support Arnold's package in November or we all might as well just cash out on our home equity windfalls and retreat to other states. This special election is the Alamo, people. This is SERIOUS. It's the next step forward. He's not perfect but we must STOP with the negativity, the "what have you done for us lately" pettiness.
He's been able to accomplish more than Bill Simon would've. Or McClintock. Unfortunately, I believe he's all but lost the advantages he had. Much of that is due to our unwillingness to support him and the brain-damaged screw-ups he's been handed like GOP legislator authoring a plank of Arnold's reform agenda which could be spun into making him into the enemy of firefighter widows for crying out loud! And don't think his withdrawing that proposition has made it go away. There are union goon ads *right now* on radio and TV still beating that drum to make Arnold the most hated politician in the state. The mainstream media isn't being fair and the right wing media is taking its ball and going home like the spoiled brats they are in each losing election cycle.
Get on the reform agenda train or get out of California because if Arnold fails, the state will not be recoverable for sound policy for at least a generation, if not lost for good.
I understood that he was in training for years. You blame his inexperience and lack of education on other GOP vets? Which vets specifically? They’ve literally cleared the path through the next primary. What else should Arnold have handed to him? A crown?
He singlehandedly offered the GOP a golden opportunity to reform CA by getting elected.
Opportunity for what? To adopt the Kennedy agenda?
Look you, and Hewitt and others around CA *MUST* support Arnold's package in November or we all might as well just cash out on our home equity windfalls and retreat to other states.
A bit melodramatic, don’t you think? Extending teacher tenure will have no measurable difference on the quality of life or education for years to come, if ever. [hint: it applies only to teachers hired prospectively.] I may support it, but not because I am told to do so.
...we must STOP with the negativity, the "what have you done for us lately" pettiness.
Holding a politician accountable to his promises is petty?
He's been able to accomplish more than Bill Simon would've. Or McClintock.
You’re right. He’s appointed more leftists to high positions, authorized higher debt, passed enormous spending increases, accomplished major landgrabs, sold us on the stem-cell research scam, signed the assault weapon legislation, and it looks like he will be successful in cramming the taxpayer subsidized hydrogen highway and solar roofs down our throats too. No other (R)epublican could have accomplished these things and still had party support.
Unfortunately, I believe he's all but lost the advantages he had. Much of that is due to our unwillingness to support him and the brain-damaged screw-ups he's been handed like GOP legislator authoring a plank of Arnold's reform agenda which could be spun into making him into the enemy of firefighter widows for crying out loud!
Still trying to spin this as the GOP legislators fault, and not Arnold and his administration, huh? Now, I know I’ve corrected you on this at least once. According to news reports, John Coupal was the author of the pension reform--he is not a GOP legislator.
Get on the reform agenda train or get out of California because if Arnold fails, the state will not be recoverable for sound policy for at least a generation, if not lost for good.
Wow. What an attitude. It sounds like you went to the Schwarzenegger school of management. Sorry, I’m not part of that 95% that needs to be told what to do.
“My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it,” he once explained. “People need somebody to watch over them.... Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.”
--Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. News & World Report, Nov 26, 1990
Since getting into office, all Arnold has done is appoint liberals to positions that they are not qualified to hold, increase our debt, increase the rate of increase of our debt, and claim the entire Sierra Nevada for Kofi Anan.
From my lofty conservative perch here in Colorado, I'd say Arnold has already failed. The Govinator has exacerbated problem after problem. That's what happens when you elect a liberal RINO to public office. More spending, more borrowing and in the end, higher taxes to support the nanny socialist state. You voted for it. Enjoy what you got.
Geddoubtahere with that!!! Maria is the ONLY one that *MUST* support his steroid shriveled "package!"
It's hard to believe the mental and intellectual contortions you ran through in that rant... Whew!!!
He has left a debris field of good advice/advisors bigger than TWA flight 800!!!
He's an unmitigated disaster that just couldn't wait to happen all over CA and it's GOP!!!
He hath snagged defeat from the jaws of the historic Recall he snagged from the former conservative majority in the CAGOP just so he, Wilson, Riordan, Firestone, Parsky and the rest of the souless "moderates" could castrate the conservative dominance of the GOP!!!
He's all talk! He's never gonna reform ANYTHING!!!
Earth to newzjunkey... Earth to newzjunkey... hello???