Posted on 10/12/2009 10:40:59 PM PDT by americanophile
Reporting from Sacramento - This had been Sacramento's lost year, a stretch marked by a budget meltdown and hyper-partisan rancor, mass veto threats and mounting public distrust of state government as usual.
But as the curtain dropped, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger performed as he has for half a dozen years in office: predictably unpredictable.
After threatening a mass veto to spur a big water deal, the governor reversed course, revved up his ballpoint pen and signed a surprising slate of legislation. It included bills he had vetoed in the past and a flurry of measures that steered sharply away from the socially conservative Republican base the governor has rarely embraced.
He outraged conservative Christians by approving a special day of recognition for slain gay rights icon Harvey Milk. He crossed the powerful National Rifle Assn. by signing stricter new rules for ammunition sales. To the ire of anti-tax groups, he backed a $2.3-billion Medi-Cal funding bill. Schwarzenegger even went along with measures he once ridiculed, including a ban on amputating cow tails and creating an official blueberry commission.
And in the final hours, the GOP governor backed down from his threat to kill scores of measures if lawmakers failed to forge a landmark deal to fix California's water problems
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Yup. I was wrong. Davis would have been better than the Austrian Chump.
That isn't english. How can his "base" be the people who hate him the most? These reporters have twisted themselves into knots.
Remember when they said we HAD to vote for RINO’s because.... because.... I don’t remember. I don’t care to. I just hope we never hear that argument again.
...it’s the Republican base, but it’s not Arnold’s. His base is a curious mix of disaffected Democrats, liberal Republicans, and everyone who thought it would be cool to have the Terminator as governor.
You mean Arnold Schwartzenkennedy?
We have to get passed the self-fulfilling prophecy that only liberal Republicans can get elected in California. Until we elect a McClintock-type to a major statewide office, it will be regarded as an immutable political rule here.
I'm still seeing that argument, including here on FR. Especially from those pushing Mitt Romney.
yeah, looks like his wife won the argument last night.
We know how low Mitt can go. Arnold just surpassed it.
Just be thankful he’s not legally qualified to hold the Presidency! But for CA, they got ‘the government they deserve’. And that’s NOT trying to be sarcastic.
yitbos
USA: the country that can wreck Paradise.
he signed AB 962. That’s all I need to know
I am sick to death of Kay Bailey and hutchinson and Perry in Texas, they are NOT very conservative at all. blech
We're hearing right now. There's still a large segment of conservative freepers who are of the "RINOs are acceptable if they run in blue states" mindset. After Jeffords, Chafee, Specter, Schwarzenegger.. they just never learn. Now we "have" to vote for socialist Mark Kirk so we can get a "Republican" in Obama's Senate seat. The only thing they'll accomplish by doing is help Obama make his marxist agenda "bipartisan" with more RINO Senators, but oh well.
Nails in the Coffin.
Those must be the people supporting the liberal Republicans in NJ, Florida and California right now too.
Gun groups, meanwhile, assailed the governor’s approval of AB 962 by Assemblyman Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles). It requires sellers of handgun ammunition, starting in 2011, to keep a log of sales information, including the buyer’s thumbprint, signature and driver’s license data.
“We think it was a devastating mistake,” said Paredes of Gun Owners of California, which boasts a membership of 30,000.
Ammunition buyers, he said, are now “going to be treated like registered sex offenders.”
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