Governor Faces GOP Roadblock (Arnold's "Post-Partisanship" Comes Back To Bite Him Alert)

Sacramento Bee ^ | 07/27/2007 | Kevin Yamamura

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Bill Whalen, a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution who wrote speeches for former Gov. Pete Wilson, said Republicans may be sending a twofold message. They are showing Democrats how difficult it will be to pass new taxes in future years while also proving their relevancy to Schwarzenegger.

"Eleven months out of the year, the poor Republicans in the state Senate and Assembly toil in obscurity," Whalen said. "They don't matter when it comes to party-line votes. When it comes to (Schwarzenegger's) post-partisanship, they're the ones standing on the outside while the governor basks in the spotlight."

Last year, Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria, and former Assemblyman Keith Richman, both moderates, were upset after they carried legislation for Schwarzenegger but received no help from the governor in their primary races for statewide office. Some California Republicans remain bitter that the governor left the state party with debt after it paid for millions of dollars in advertising for him to win re-election last year.

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Why can't Arnold get the votes of the two Senate RINOs Ken Richman and Abdel Maldonado? Short answer: he left them high and dry when he ran for re-election. In turning his back on his own party and celebrating so-called "post-partisanship" with the Democrats for most the year, he finds himself with no credibility with legislative Republicans. He sides with the Democrats and did so Thursday, saying he wants to see the Assembly budget passed. The Senate CAGOP is not budging and they're not about to make life for a Governor who ignores them and the Democrats easier.

"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 Palelologus

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Budget Crisis Update From Tom McClintock:

Here’s a recap of the state budget situation. As Alice said, “Things are getting curiouser and curiouser”:

1. On Saturday, Senate President Don Perata adjourned the Senate, demanding that Republicans present amendments to reduce the cost of the state budget by Wednesday.

2. On Wednesday, Senate Republicans did precisely that. Perata refused to hear the amendments and promptly adjourned the Senate until Thursday, promising to vote on the budget reduction amendments then.

3. This morning, Perata refused to convene the Senate and notified the Republican leader that instead of publicly debating and voting on budget reduction amendments, he wanted to resume negotiations.

YOUR CALLS AND E-MAILS ARE WORKING!

I think the Democrats are starting to realize is that the more that specific reductions are debated, the more outraged people become at expenditures like:

• Providing state-only cash payments to able bodied welfare recipients who refuse to look for work (only California and New York pay these cash grants): $324 million
• Paying for 6,000 vacant positions the bureaucracies use as slush funds: $200 million
• Pay in-state tuition subsidies for illegal aliens to attend California’s universities and colleges: $75 million
• Celebrate “Cesar Chavez Day”: $5 million

PLEASE KEEP THE PRESSURE UP ON STATE SENATORS BY CONTINUING YOUR CALLS AND E-MAILS. ALSO PLEASE WEIGH IN WHERE EVER YOU CAN IN THE PUBLIC DEBATE WITH LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, PHONE CALLS TO TALK SHOWS AND BLOG ENTRIES ON PUBLIC POLICY WEB SITES.

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SUPPORT THE SENATE CAGOP BUMP

"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 Palelologus

[fieldmarshaldj]

Just like King Willie Weld of Ratsachusetts, the ultimate RINO one-man Gubernatorial wrecking crew. He not only f*cked the Conservatives in his party, but the liberals, too. In a 16-year period, he reduced a politically competitive GOP (that held 40% of one political body, the Senate, and was competitive in half the 10 Congressional districts) to moribund status (barely 12% of the legislature is GOP, and we’re no longer competitive for either statewide office, nor a single solitary Congressional district — none) with the exiting of his RINO disciple, Precious Willard Romney, this past January. Now Romney wants to do to the national GOP what he and his hero Weld did to the MA GOP.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_14_49/ai_59451074

And now, dear Ah-nold is doing precisely that to the CA GOP. He must be destroyed before he destroys us.

[David Isaac]

When conservatives showed their muscle in 1994, there began an effort to destroy any unity among conservatives. Sadly a lot of Republicans (from county level to the RNC) have been instrumental in that effort, aided and abetted by the media. The implications in such a concerted effort, are, at best, frightening.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The attempts at trying to drive Conservatives apart has been going on a lot longer than just since 1994. And with some Republicans, it’s not the media helping them, but their own egos and forgetting that it isn’t all about them, and that you need as many footsoldiers (Republican elected officials) as you can possibly pack into office.

Republican Governors are like little Presidents. They can either cause a party to grow, or they can inflict enormous damage. There’s been far too many of the latter in the past 20 years in office, so much so that you could almost rightfully accuse them of being paid or volunteer Democrat plants designed to maximize our casualties, the “Trojan horses.” Weld was a prime example of that, perhaps the ultimate example in modern times. Kean & Whitman of NJ, Wilson & Ah-nold of CA, Edgar & Ryan in IL, Janklow of SD.

No Democrat from outside can inflict as much damage to the party as one posing as a Republican from the inside.

[Amerigomag]

When conservatives showed their muscle in 1994, there began an effort to destroy any unity among conservatives.

More accurate:

When conservatives showed their muscle in 1994, there began an effort to destroy any unity among Republicans.

I'm obviously not a fan of the theoretical divisions among conservatives. I prefer the old straight talk to the new euphmisms. Social conservative were born-again Christians and fiscal conservatives were those who work for a living.

[David Isaac]

I did not posit that the Dems were wreaking havoc among Republicans, something, which if left to their own devices, I believe they would be incapable of pulling-off.

[NormsRevenge]

..upset after they carried legislation for Schwarzenegger but received no help from the governor in their primary races for statewide office. Some California Republicans remain bitter that the governor left the state party with debt after it paid for millions of dollars in advertising for him to win re-election last year.

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The TWirPinator shows his true colors and some elected officials are shocked.. awwwwww... now they too know, He’s a solo act, always has been.

[Clintonfatigued]

“And now, dear Ah-nold is doing precisely that to the CA GOP. He must be destroyed before he destroys us.”

With or without Ah-nold, the CA GOP is in lousy shape. Granted, he has fallen short in terms of being leader of his state party, but it’s not like his doing better in that regard would elect very many more Republicans.

The voters who have formed the bedrock of Republican constituancies have moved away or died. Same is even more true with Massachusetts, which is hopeless for at least a generation.