Posted on 02/19/2009 7:25:25 PM PST by rabscuttle385
SACRAMENTO-While tensions are rising between President Obama and Congressional Republicans, California's Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he is eager for more opportunities to partner with Obama on big issues like health care and energy. He's also got some advice for the new president about building inclusive "post-partisan" coalitions.
Schwarzenegger is positioned to become perhaps Obama's most important Republican ally.
He was among the most prominent GOP governors who backed the economic recovery plan that cleared Congress with support from no Republicans in the House and just three in the Senate. And Schwarzenegger has advanced his own state-level initiatives on health reform, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and promoting alternative energy that closely track Obama's campaign proposals.
"Whether it is health care, whether it is environmental issues, we are willing to work with him," Schwarzenegger said in an interview Tuesday as he lustily puffed on a cigar in his smoking tent inside the State Capitol. "We started with infrastructure because that was a very important part of the whole thing and we felt it was really good that he was interested in infrastructure and put money aside as part of the stimulus."
Though leading Congressional Republicans have grown steadily more dismissive of Obama's stimulus package, Schwarzenegger continues to defend the plan, particularly the elements promoting energy conservation and renewable energy. "There is good stuff in there," he said.
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I seldom hear anyone mention Bill Simon. He would have been elected governor over Gray Davis if only George Bush and Karl Rove and that dolt Parsky had bothered to support him.
Instead, they gave us Arnold. Thanks a bunch. Arnold is the gift who keeps on giving.
Are we, as conservative Californians, permitted to throw this $ssclown out of the GOP in our state? He needs to have a (D) after his name.
As soon as you call the “stimulus” package pork, some feminist will write a column decrying the term to describe women.
Another example of why we should never capitulate to moderates. They will always give the farm away.
Put a fork in Cali, a state I love; it’s done. Due largely to immigration, many Californians are second- and third-worlders who can not produce, and can not be educated to produce, at first world levels, even though they consume more services than others. California can not raise taxes high enough on its first world population to remain what it’s been as a whole, but envious second- and third-worlders in proximity to better-off people will always demand as high of taxes on the latter as they can get. Absent a large expulsion of immigrants, California will never again have a Republican majority in either house of the state legislature or a conservative as governor, even if they occasionally elect a RINO to that position as even ultraliberal states sometimes do when Rat governors fail ridiculously.
Ain’t I a little ray of sunshine?
Come on. Why do you say Californian's can't produce?
dailymail.co.uk
Foreigners of a feather, flock together.
You know, this budget mess is pretty much the last straw for our state. I am going to call the Secretary of State in the morning and find out what time frame we have for recalling every elected official serving in Sacramento.
If nobody else is going to step in, I am going to. If I don’t have to come up with some massive pot of gold coins, I’m going to file papers to remove these bastards from power.
Wow. You’re looking at nine people, all of them along for the ride on the taxpayer’s dollars.
I seldom hear anyone mention Bill Simon. He would have been elected governor over Gray Davis if only George Bush and Karl Rove and that dolt Parsky had bothered to support him.
Instead, they gave us Arnold. Thanks a bunch. Arnold is the gift who keeps on giving.
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I am not sure why George W should get blamed in this case...
Remember George W never carried CA...How would Simon have benefited by traveling around CA with George W?
During the recall election, Arnold kept distance from George W...Arnold didn’t want to travel around with Prez Bush.
Let’s face it...Bush was never popular in CA.
I like Simon...But, I think that he lacked “fire in the belly” somewhat...
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