Posted on 01/09/2005 4:29:56 PM PST by AVNevis
Amid all the hoopla that went along with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's second State of the State speech, and all the talk of the governor's bold plan to attack some of the Capitol's most sacred cows, state Sen. Tom McClintock went almost unnoticed.
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PING!
Great McClintock article. Thanks for the ping!
Danged right!!!
My connection (cox cable) has the slows today and I figure it's the activity down there.
OK. 'fess up. Which one of you ghost wrote this article for Weintraub? ;)
Arnold and some Republicans understand that you can accomplish a lot by taking one step at a time. McClintock's all or nothing attitude is what caused him to never be able to accomplish anything.
What this article says that Arnold IS accomplishing the conservative agenda.
BUMP for Tom!
I said such last week, it was as if Tom was offering the content. I have also added a new blog on my personal site. You can read it at...
www.hogueblog.blogspot.com
You can also see my column/blog from Thursday night at the California Republic site...
www.californiarepublic.org
We have a chance for 2006 if these two can get along!
Amazing that you can take an article that points out clearly how much Tom McClintock is accomplishing, and read just the opposite...
Take the blinders off.
No, it says Arnold finally has been pushed up against a wall and HAS to adopt some common sense actions such as those that Tom has been suggesting all along.
Arnold's promotion and passage of the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, issuance of $15 Billion in Bonds, shilling for unaffordable embryonic stem cell research, etc. is NOT the conservative agenda. Don't fool yourself; you're certainly not fooling anyone here. Then, Wednesday night, suddenly everything changed. It was if the flashy governor were channeling his straight-laced colleague. Schwarzenegger's speech sounded almost as if McClintock had written it. "Maybe I should have copyrighted some of my ideas," McClintock said with a laugh when I asked him later about the resemblance. (snip) "I don't think he is doing this because he wants to, but because he has to," McClintock said of the governor. "He made it very clear that this is going to be a nasty fight and he's probably going to emerge from it less popular than when he went in. But it has to be done. Because these problems can't be ignored, and time has run out. That's what leadership is all about." For the next year, McClintock watched from the Senate as Schwarzenegger learned the ropes in the Capitol, compromised with Democrats, avoided confrontation and, in the end, made little progress on the fundamental problems that bedeviled the state. The senator offered muted criticism when appropriate, support where he could.
I have DSL for a backup to the cable modem but I've gotten reeeeeel tired of this rain! enough already!!!
We had 3.5 inches in 48 hours by 6 am at the house here in Eureka but that's normal behind the Redwood curtain. We seem to be on the north end of these storms lately. We are normally on the south end of them.
Correction, how much ARNOLD is accomplishing.
All McClintock had were ideas -- and he doesn't have a monopoly on conservative ideas. He was not able to accomplish anything, because of his all or nothing attitude, as I said.
Also note, that this article doesn't even mention Issa, who bankrolled the recall, without him there wouldn't have been a recall. The article also fails to mention that Issa, unlike McClintock, was a class act, because he withdrew, putting the interest of the state over his own interests.
A third point is that when MSM is praising a conservative, people should look at the ulterior motive, which in this case is to talk up McClintock, so the naive Republicans would nominate him over Issa, and ensure a Dem win for Lt. Governor.
As I said in my first post, when McClintock was brought up as a candidate for Lt. Gov: if McC gets the Republican nomination, there is a 100% chance of Dem Garamandi being elected. McClintock is also running on the platform to STOP Arnold from accomplishing anything. Great platform. (sarcasm)
Good rebuttle. I think that Arnold has figured out that it's either piss off the teachers and public employees (who don't support republican's anyway), or raise taxes and announce that he really is a democrat.
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