"I operate with a different mentality than most people do, which is that I am very forceful and inpatient. I always have mapped out my entire life a program and a work schedule and also a schedule of when I want to accomplish things," he told reporters. "And I always, you know, was successful with that, and with tremendous amount of determination and with tremendous amount of will."
"So here in this capital and in this job as governor... I think you have to be more patient," he said. "I recognize that now, more so than I did before."
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Somehow his statements almost makes it sound like he was neutered November 10th.
Losing this latest skirmish is not the end of the world.
Now is not the time to cave.
The need in continuing down a road that must include reform at all levels of this state's government is now even more important than before.
The fight must continue in reducing bloated bureaucracies and in ensuring the legislature conducts its business with all the state's constituents best interests in mind and not just looking out for a few special interest groups above a majority of the legal residents of California.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Norm Buddy,
You folks in California are screwed. You've got too many people who don't work, pay taxes,own property or have citizenship. But they do vote. And they voted to have you pay for the fact that they don't work, pay taxes,own property or have citizenship.
Arnold is taking the exact wrong lesson from this. It's time to stop appointing Dems as Judges and playing nice. He will get zero cooperation from conservatives if he keeps this up, and I hope he loses the primary if he does.
"It was kind of like going to the Supreme Court," he said. "It didn't work in the lower court so I went to the Supreme Court and of course they sent me right back down again where I started."
"That's something you that have to do when you are in the movie business, you have to listen carefully to the people. If one of the movies goes into the toilet, you know that was the wrong story, that's not the kind of movie you want to do, you know, so then you change, you learn from that."
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These comments are quite telling as well.
Hugh Hewitt had a an interesting analysis in a prior thread. He pointed out that the Governor's problem was that he surrounded himself with liberals and isolated himself from conservatives. In short, he turned off the base. Hewitt quoted Nixon who said you can't win with only conservatives, but you can't win without them.
I don't think many people would remember Arnold's failed ballot measures one year from now...
Who knows what will happen between now and November 2006?
People were not sure that Pete Wilson would get reelected at the start of 1994...He got reelected by a comfortable margin in Nov. 1994.
"I operate with a different mentality than most people do, which is that I am very forceful and inpatient. I always have mapped out my entire life a program and a work schedule and also a schedule of when I want to accomplish things," he told reporters. "And I always, you know, was successful with that, and with tremendous amount of determination and with tremendous amount of will."
And thats the problem, most californians this is totally alien thinking.
The union nut is tough to crack. No question. But he DID accomplish one thing. He made them spend hundreds of millions of dollars just to hold ground. And that nut WILL crack someday.
No doubt Arnold is a little rattled by it all. It was a ballsy move he made. Taking on the unions with several propositions and having them resopnd on a national level against him. We must wait and see what happens next. Arnold will learn from this.
None of us here are happy about what happened. But I will not give up. And neither will Arnold. I just hope the rest of the country doesnt write us off in places like San Diego and Orange County. A lot of military folks here in Southern Calfornia. Still strong conservatives here. Reagan was Governor here. We are STILL here!, fighting the Bay Area and Los Angeles masses is extremely difficult.
We will need help from you Red states out there. I have contributed to republicans in other states at times. Keep us in mind next time. What happens here can effect the rest of the country. Unions are drunk all over the nation on shooting down arnolds propostions. It effects the whole country.
Just tonight we got a canned telephone message from some group already trying to get a petition together to push higher cigarette taxes in CA "to cover emergency medical care".
What a crock!
Loser. Quitter. Girlie man.
Sounds like California's working taxpayers may as well grab their ankles.