Posted on 12/18/2006 12:38:22 PM PST by ElkGroveDan
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday that his proposal for reforming California's health care system will not include new taxes, but he did not rule out considering legislative proposals that do.
"I'm not telling you now what I would or would not consider," the governor said during a media availability at a Los Angeles hospital when he was asked whether he would approve a solution that included a tax increase.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
I wonder if those search teams on the slopes of Mt. Hood this week would mind keeping a lookout for Arnold's NO TAXES INCREASES pledge.
Everyone else, please check your attics. If there are any old abandoned buildings in your neighborhood, you might have a look around those too.
You get the first PING
Who's surprised?
Along with his testicles.
Dan, as a long-time Arnold critic do you think there's any truth to party-switching chatter? I find it hard to believe a GOP convention keynoter of just two years ago would even try to pull it off. What's he going to say as a rationale? The only entity that seems to have changed policy preferences since then is himself!
Here in Calif, the Governator showed that it is only on the silver screen that he has courage of convictions. In real, political life he bent over and spread for the Dems.
He has gone so far to the left that if that convention had been held just this past summer, he would not have given that speech. I doubt he would have attended. I hadn't heard all the party-switching talk to which you refer, but I sure as heck wouldn't be surprised.
From one of Schwarzenegger's biographers, Joe Mathews (article here):
When Pete Wilson's right hand, Bob White, came to visit him on the set of "End of Days" in 1999, Schwarzenegger was cool to White's idea that he enter politics and revive the state GOP. The star instead complained about the party's support for the impeachment of President Clinton. Two years later, Schwarzenegger's political consultants sat him down in front of a camera and asked him to state his views on issues. He railed against partisan politics and laid out his plan for expanding healthcare coverage. After focus groups complained that the plan sounded like something Hillary Rodham Clinton would embrace, he dropped the idea.
As long has he remains the "leader" of the CA GOP, we will only see things move further left. Once he joins up with Rudy for President, the GOP platform will be completely erased.
Looky there, "open government."
Those who voted for Schwarzenegger in November, regardless of reason, are part of the problem, not the solution. Those who voted for Republican legislators who supported any of Schwarzenegger's liberal agenda, from the budget to social issues are part of the problem, not the solution.
As long as Republicans, regardless of their self proclaimed political philosophy, elect/reelect members of the expedient/moderate/liberal Republican cabal the problem will not be solved. It will simply be exacerbated.
C'mon you guys... You know darned well that Arnoiled is both... completely above partisanship and standing tall with one foot in the CA Coastal Commission and the other in the Sierra-Nevada Conservancy and his arms folded, gazing down upon all us lesser beings with pure contempt for our concerns over a democratic process in the people's CA REPUBLIC!!! (as stated in "all-caps" on our state flag!)
I'm in your camp on this one.
How any rational conservative can publish in late 2006 that Schwarzenegger has gone to the left is simply incredulous.
Schwarzenegger was a lefty the day he announced for the office. His statements were clear and only those grasping for a plausible defense to justify their gullibility would have interpreted even the friendlier (blow up the boxes, no new taxes, roll back the car tax, rescind driver's licenses) statements as conservative.
Hey wait a minute! Who's camp you been bein in on all the rest of 'em, huh???
He tried taking on the unions and had his political head handed to him. The problem is not nearly so much the politicians as it is the constituency they represent. Go convince your neighbors to vote conservative.
Along with his testicles.
He's Austrian. Was he ever a member of the Vienna's Boys Choir?
Why is it, that a liberal's "open mind"
always seems to require a conservative's "open wallet"?
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