Posted on 08/31/2006 11:30:56 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Hubris is defined as "Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance."
That is what came to my mind as I saw this press release come over the transom from the Governor's office:
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger issued the following statement after the Assembly approved AB 2911 by Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez and Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata:
"This plan is just what the doctor ordered for millions of low-income Californians who pay the most for their prescription drugs but can least afford them. With prescription drug costs contributing to more than 8 percent of health care inflation, this is a critical step in addressing access to affordable health care.
"I look forward to receiving this bill and signing it into law. The Legislature should be proud - we are providing meaningful discounts to uninsured Californians and this is just one more example of what we can accomplish when we work together."
I call the issuing of this media release praising "The Legislature" an act of hubris because Governor Schwarzenegger is the ONLY REPUBLICAN IN THE CAPITOL that thinks this bill is a good idea. Not one Republican (out of nearly 50 GOP legislators) cast an eye vote for this bill that embraces the central-government-control of the Democrat Party.
The last line of the release should end, "...this is just one more example of how I, with no support from my fellow Republican legislators, can increase the size and scope of state government."
I am not sure which is worse, actually embracing liberal policies, or bragging about it along the way.
Yes, Phil Angelides would be worse in a whole lot of ways. But the Governor signing AB 2911 has staked himself out WITH the Democrats and AGAINST EVERY REPUBLICAN IN THE LEGISLATURE on a very important issue.
As someone who campaigned hard for Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Recall Election, charged the hill with him on all of his previous ballot measure campaigns, and as someone who has endorsed his re-election this year, it is downright upsetting.
2010 won't come soon enough for me.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
"Polling data showed McClintock would have beated Davis 60-40,"
No, actually McClintock would have won by 100% of the vote. (/sarc -- to demonstrate the ludicrousness of your statement)
And you might be interested in what McClintock is saying now:
"Like many of us, I too have disagreements with some of the Governor's proposals. These differences, however, do not justify the abandonment of our party's responsibility to work tirelessly to reelect this Republican governor and to elect our GOP candidates to statewide and legislative offices.
For this reason, I view any effort to attack Governor Schwarzenegger as an attack on my own candidacy and those of every Republican seeking partisan office in 2006. "
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1568122/posts?page=51#51
You reap what you sow.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
Usually when he's being liberal, he's ALSO exhibiting hubris.
I will continue to hold my nose and vote "for Arnold," but really it's strictly "against Red Phil Angelides." Hoping to gosh that McClintock wins his LGov race and can continue to point out What Stinks In Sacramento, leading to his election in 2010.
I never had any illusions that Arnold would be conservative, but I also never thought he'd swing so far left. It's very disappointing.
"Liberal" and "hubris" are far from mutually exclusive.
I supported Schwarzenegger. I didn't want Bustamante and didn't think McClintock had a snowball's chance in hell. Okay, here we are.
My instincts told me that Schwarzenegger wouldn't be as good as I hoped he would be, but probably wouldn't be as bad as some had said. Well, he was rather pathetic really. There were a few bright spots and that's about it.
I won't endorse him this time around and what's more, I will not vote for him. I stuck my neck out to give him a chance. It didn't pay off.
I think you and others seem to believe in your core, that everyone who voted for Schwarzenegger voted for him out of shere addoration. At least in my case, that simply wasn't so.
By this time he's shown how bad he can be, and I don't expect it to get any better. I'm pulling my vote and darned happy to do so.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
Thanks. This is a sad sad situation, but nothing so unusual really. Can't remember the last time I voted for someone on the top of a ticket that I really felt good about.
Conservatism is on life support IMO.
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Gov. ARNOLD stands 4-Square in support of Freedom for Vietnam, with his Executive Order Pen in Little Saigon CA:
http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/press-release/3162/
(Gov. ARNOLD's official website Press Release & Photo Essay)
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Typical FR Anti-Arnold BS.
Source, please.
"Gov. ARNOLD stands 4-Square in support of Freedom for Vietnam, with his Executive Order Pen in Little Saigon CA"
uhhhhhhh...and I should care because?
Last time I checked, I am an American, I paid my dues in Viet Nam in 1969 & 1970, I still have the scars on my face and deafness in my right ear from a NVA mortar. Thirty-six years have passed and I have yet to have a Vietnamese-American walk up to me and say,
"Thank you!"
If RINOld spent a little more time governing California as a "conservative" then he'd be doing something constructive.
RINOld is the sorriest excuse for a governor since the last clown we had.
And if RINOld had an ounce of class, he would have refused to run for reelection.
As I said earlier, 2010 can't come soon enough for me.
Semper Fi,
Kelly
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Go to Little Saigon, CA and you will be thanked often for your having fought for their Freedom in Vietnam long ago ..just like I have been.
Long ago Democrats in Congress cut-off our funding for the Free Vietnamese to fight for their own Freedom with, just like they are trying to do now in Congress to the Free Iraqi People.
Bringing us in the end for all to see:
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
Leaving the War on Terror abroad, simply follows us home.
IT COULD ALL HAPPEN HERE..!!!
And some are out there doing all that they can to make it so:
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1693011/posts
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"Go to Little Saigon, CA and you will be thanked often for your having fought for their Freedom in Vietnam"
BULLSHIT!
I have had an office in Fountain Valley for 15 years, known VN from Irvine to Garden Grove for even longer and not a damn one of them ever said "thank you!"
BTW, I notice you conveniently ignored my points regarding RINOld.
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Looks like we've had some very different experiences with the Freedom-Loving Vietnamese-Americans living in Central Orange County, it appears..?
Perhaps it's the Vietnam Veteran's hat I'm wearing in the photo of a Free Vietnam Flag pin being joyfully pinned on Gov. ARNOLD's lapel:
http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/press-release/3162/
(See: 'Photo Essay' photos on the right, 2nd row down)
A Freedom for Vietnam Event where I was being thanked over & over again by many joyful Freedom-Loving Vietnamese-Americans on August 5, 2006.
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re: Gov. ARNOLD
We really had our shot doing things in California our way by voting in Gov. ARNOLD's reform propositions during the last election, which we did not do.
Gov. ARNOLD is now forced to govern a Blue State, thru a leftist State Legislature whose lower house leadership supports Communist Vietnam, in order to get things done. And this will be his true measure as Governor.
Gov. ARNOLD's Re-Districting proposition for the restructuring of a Democrat-Controlled State Legislature, that was voted down last year by us voters, has been modified and is now on the verge of working its way through that same State Legislature.
Stay tuned.
AR
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