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.
In context, Arnold attempted in 2005 to bring redistricting along as an opportunity to bring our crazy legislature back from the brink. Despite Bush-level disapproval rating, the legislature is back in yet again.
LOL. Celebrating the Dem takeover, I see. No surprise.
"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
When Arnold did his speech at the RNC in 2004, didn't he say that he wanted to be a Republican because the alternative is much like the government he had left to come over here? Just wait Arnold, you will realize its real unhealthy.
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I'm thinking....no.
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He and Kerry go way back, yaknow.
His wife probably told him to say that.
"I think this is good that we have new blood coming to Washington, that we have new people with new ideas coming to Washington,"
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spoken like a true Third Way Progressive... he owes his allegiance to neither party, but to a cause.. one that a lot of folks know little about nor seemed inclined to research for themselves, and even then, would not care to recognize and acknowledge it as a significant threat to our form of government for fear of estrangement from those in power who openly work towards those very ends and goals that Third Way proponents espouse..
also, never mind that the dems and MSM have worked overtime to obstruct every proposal and initiative put forth by a Republican administration, one that had its flaws but whose policies still deserved serious consideration and in some cases implementation of called for reform to existing and longstanding social and fiscal policies and programs.
his comments are not surprising tho, he is married into the Kennedy clan, one whose patriarch was quick to cuddle up to the Nazis just as Uncle Teddy seeks to get jiggy with terrorists.
Mr Williams is no longer allowed on the radio in Sacramento -- too much criticism of radical Islam, ILLEGAL aliens, and the SchwarzenKennedys.
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