Posted on 11/09/2006 12:54:02 PM PST by calcowgirl
MEXICO CITY - California's Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, meeting with outgoing President Vicente Fox in Mexico City, hailed the Democratic takeover of Congress as healthy for democracy, saying "Washington was stuck."
Schwarzenegger suggested that Washington follow his example in California where he has worked with Democrats to achieve bipartisan agreements, such as placing $37.3 billion in bond measures on the November ballot, which voters embraced and which are aimed at easing the state's traffic jams, aging schools and inadequate affordable housing.
"I think this is good that we have new blood coming to Washington, that we have new people with new ideas coming to Washington," he said.
Schwarzenegger said he also was glad to hear California Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who would become the first female House leader in history, wants to find ways to cooperate with Republicans. The governor said he called Pelosi after Tuesday's elections, but they haven't spoken yet.
The California governor is on a two-day trade mission to Mexico to promote California's green technology and agricultural exports. Schwarzenegger met with Fox at the presidential residence, Los Pinos, on Thursday and planned to meet with President-elect Felipe Calderon on Friday before leaving for the northern industrial city of Monterrey, near the Texas border.
After meeting with Fox, Schwarzenegger told a news conference that a U.S. planned border wall is "an incomplete way" of solving illegal immigration and voiced support for a guest worker program.
Schwarzenegger said he was traveling with California farmers who were unable to harvest their crops because of a lack of workers. Farmers across the United States have complained about labor shortages ever since Washington beefed up the number of U.S. Border Patrol agents along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border earlier this year.
A temporary worker program would be ideal "because we have people who want to work and we have people who need work," the governor said.
Getting 20 million illegal Mexicans the right to vote in American elections will be their #1 priority to ensure they never loose congress again.
And the saddest part of this mission is that The President will support the dems efforts to grant amnesty, citizenship and voting rights to them.
He does it from Mexico City. Doofus. Glad I didn't vote for him. My conscience is clean.
MEXICO CITY -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said here today that he was heartened by Tuesday's election resulting in a Democratic takeover of Congress, welcoming what he described as "new blood coming to Washington."Speaking publicly for the first time about his party's apparent loss of both the U.S. House and Senate, Schwarzenegger said he was hopeful that the changes will jump-start a political system that was paralyzed.
"I think it's good that there are new ideas and new blood, because Washington was stuck," the governor said, after a meeting with Mexican President Vicente Fox at Los Pinos, Mexico's equivalent of the White House. "They could not move forward. Not much was accomplished. I think it was terrible."
Schwarzenegger said he was hopeful that the results would usher in a new era of bipartisan cooperation — similar to what he said he is bringing about in Sacramento.
"So I think the people have spoken in America, all over the United States," the governor told a roomful of California and Mexican journalists. "And they've sent a very clear message to Washington: We are not happy about the way things were going. And I think we want to see a new way of going, and we want to see bipartisanship."
Soon after the governor finished speaking, one of his aides, communications director Adam Mendelsohn, told reporters that Schwarzenegger was not saying he was necessarily pleased to see Congress under Democratic control.
Rather, Schwarzenegger was making the point that "it's good there is an infusion of new ideas and desire for bipartisanship," Mendelsohn said.
The feeling is reciprocal Herr Schwarzenegger ~ we need some new people in California ~ send the rest back where they came from.
"new people with new ideas coming to Washington,"
Same ol people Arnold, Same ol tired ol liberal moonbats chomping at the bit to attack Moby Bush.
Sigh.
Yeah, I noticed the Gropinator talking out of both sides of his mouth from Mexico. Telling, huh.
"I think this is good that we have new blood coming to Washington, that we have new people with new ideas coming to Washington," he said."
Psst: his wife told him to say that.
I guess he willl run agisnt Boxer in the Dem primany in 2010?
Such as spending us into oblivion.
Is there a Republican party?
Arnold, the problem with government is not that it needs more money.
He is a boob.
A "Running Man" state in 2012? Ugh.
The Republican Congress did an outstanding job of spending like drunken sailors on their own. One of the reasons, they got their as$ handed to them on Tuesday.
Bush has to pay back favors from buisness leaders who import dirt cheap labor
Rinold, sock puppet for Ted Kennedy.
Nope--won't happen.
hummm....wonder if Arnold would mind stepping down as Governor of California if he feels so strongly about "new" blood....
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