Posted on 10/21/2006 11:29:13 PM PDT by FairOpinion
His approval rating is up to 56%, according to the latest Los Angeles Times poll, a rise of nearly 20 percentage points in one year.
His advisors say they still worry when he speaks in public, wondering if he'll blurt out something that offends a constituency or torpedoes a policy position his administration spent months crafting.
Every year the California Chamber of Commerce, the state's leading business lobbying group, puts out a list of what it calls "job killer bills" legislation it wants defeated. Of 11 such bills that passed the Legislature and made it to the governor's desk this year, he vetoed nine, or 82%.
Schwarzenegger backed four measures that his allies placed on the November 2005 ballot: He wanted to curb state spending, revamp the way the state draws voting districts, make it tougher for teachers to get tenure and bar unions from making campaign contributions without permission from members. The agenda wasn't even his own. It had been cobbled together by the Chamber of Commerce, anti-tax forces and conservative leaders on the fringes of the governor's political circle.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I see your point but we still need to demand better of Republicans. McClintock has managed to remain a conservative. I pray he is elected as Lt Governor. I will vote for Arnold for the first time. I voted for McClintock in the recall election.
I therefore had such low expectations for the Governator that he has exceeded them. LOL. He turned out better in some ways. But every time I'm ready to cheer, he comes out with some dumb pandering remark or flaming liberal response. However, Arnie was unusually bold with his special election last year, especially the attempt to break the union stranglehold on the state.
Not only is he married to a Democrat -- a Kennedy! -- but he's a thoroughly Hollywood guy too. With all that influence on him, he does pretty good. He will be elected, and when so, we must demand better of him.
CA did not deliver the electoral votes to GWB, but we did deliver 5,501,496 popular votes. We still have real Americans here, although you do not hear our voice.
P.S. My big fear, in this election, is that Jerry Brown will become Attorney General.
McClintock for LtGov and Poochigian for AttyGen are the most important votes, IMO.
Aside from the PROPs of course.
As Arnoiled would say: "What a fantassdickly formidabull list of cropolla bum dealze! I don't really need to worry 'bout the Republican Partee tho, because I reprezent alla da pipples of Cauleeforneeah! So yoo kin take yer list an shoveit to one side or de other! Who's side you on, anaways? Don'tchew wanna win? Choin Ahnold an don't swet the small stuff!"
Worse than a RINO. Far worse.
Maria's girlfriend, the girly man
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