The Going Gets Tough for Schwarzenegger

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-analysis5dec05,1,585443.story?coll=la-home-politics

The Going Gets Tough for Schwarzenegger
By Michael Finnegan and Joe Mathews
Times Staff Writers

December 5, 2003

SACRAMENTO — As he faces the first major test of his clout in the state capital, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has run up against a dual threat: a deeply divided Legislature smarting from his hardball tactics and the determined opposition of organized labor.

On his first day as governor, Schwarzenegger asked the Legislature to set aside partisan rancor and vote by today, the legal deadline, to place two budget measures on the March ballot.

One, fiercely opposed by many Democrats, would put a permanent cap on state spending. The other, facing resistance from conservative Republicans, would let the state borrow up to $15 billion to pay its bills.

Both measures would help Schwarzenegger keep his vow not to raise taxes, a campaign promise that is crucial to maintaining his political base.

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"His problem is that in his campaign, he promised what cannot be done, and now he's confronting the reality of what cannot be done," Tipps said. "There is a basic underlying arithmetic that he is now becoming increasingly aware of that says: That is not doable."

But he's Terminator, he can do anything, right? right?

"Hasta la vista" it gave him superhuman powers to do anything he wanted, sort of the same effect as Clark Kent tearing his business suit off in a phone booth.

I think we now know that it means Sacramento
while he jets around continuing his campaign tour...

with the budget again and again.

It'll get ya every time. I guess the "corporate model" of paying for numbers to be changed isn't working out with those state auditors huh?

So how many DUer Californians knew this would happen and why are we smarter than the average CA voter?

Because we don't believe conservative talk radio like most of the idiots in this state.

My favorite line from and Arnold movie

some guy asks, "who are you?"
Arnald replies, "I am da party pooper"

like a lot of the idiots in this state...

Oh sorry I must not have been listening to rightwing radio or rightwing media to have brought up something that here to for has been almost unmentionable. See it was DAVIS's FAULT!!! for being governor under energy deregulation laws that Wilson wrote.

maybe 7 weeks haven't gone by yet for the LA Times
to publish the story on the meeting with Arnie and Enron's Lay.

Heard this from a good friend of mine who really despises Ahnuld (not that I like him one bit either!).

He has NO qualifications for this job and he is an IDIOT (the campaign party is over Ahnuld - wake up!). Seems that is what they like best in our country these days, miserable failures that know only one thing - $$$$$$$$$$$!!!!!!!!!





:dem: :kick:

"It's not over 'till Arnold gropes the fat lady" —Bill Press, on MSNBC

http://www.recallarnoldwatch.org

Now I can fume further and take some action! We MUST terminate the Terminator/Gropenazi!!!



:dem: :kick:

and all the Republicans greasing the skids for this big-time energy rip-off that has thrown the state into profound debt.


California stands to lose $9 Billion if Arnold elected states
byGreg Palast

Friday October 3, 2003

It's not what Arnold Schwarzenegger did to the girls a decade back that should raise an eyebrow. According to a series of memoranda our office obtained today, it's his dalliance with the boys in a hotel room just two years ago that's the real scandal.

The wannabe governor has yet to deny that on May 17, 2001, at the Peninsula Hotel in Los Angeles, he had consensual political intercourse with Enron chieftain Kenneth Lay. Also frolicking with Arnold and Ken was convicted stock swindler Mike Milken.

Now, thirty-four pages of internal Enron memoranda have just come through this reporter's fax machine tell all about the tryst between Maria's husband and the corporate con men. It turns out that Schwarzenegger knowingly joined the hush-hush encounter as part of a campaign to sabotage a Davis-Bustamante plan to make Enron and other power pirates then ravaging California pay back the $9 billion in illicit profits they carried off.

http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/10/1650455.php

Arnold forced Bustamante to withdraw the lawsuit, thus increasing the deficit by another 9 billion dollars.

DUers know Arnold is a fucking idiot, unlike the Whore Press!

Do have any links or any more information on this? TIA. I've been busy with school and that one slipped by me. I have been wondering about the status of the lawsuit. I would love to hear what the official explanation is on that one. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:






D Wolfman

who did NOT vote for this &*%#$^. du'ers are just more informed than the average bear.;-)

who just adores himself. He just wanted the job because of it's power. No one should have expected him to know how to do any of this. Next thing we should hear his Arnold and Jessie Ventura doing an talk show together.

kinda like the one Ashcroft is doing to
find the White House leakers I imagine...

Being he cannot debate or answer direct questions, how the hell can he possibly be a talk show host? Maybe a few oxycontins will do the job? :mad: :mad: :mad:



:dem: :kick:

Is the big tough Governator having trouble with the pesky widdle budget numbers? Is the muscular famous movie star getting guff and back-sass from the mean ol' Wegiswature?

What next, Ah-nold? Gonna call in Industrial Light & Magic and make the big bad debt disappear? Gonna gun down the Legislature's Democrats? Gonna "terminate" the opposition?

What next, BONEHEAD?!?!

Snicker. Guess the "boss" is getting some back talk. Did Arnie think it was going to be a cakewalk and everyone would just roll over 'cause he's a star. Sure, falling star, black star, black hole.

This is all a very well planned and executed coup. Time will tell whether it succeeds, The temporary emergency measure angle will be played to the hilt.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=24174

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=830805

Either it's code for a lot of hot air or
a getting screwed. I vote both.

reading.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/05/MNGRQ3GURF1.DTL

Now that's a nifty piece of self-deception.

It means the state pays more for everything it buys because of the interest on the loan. Oh, goody.

They spend the future of Americans to make themselves look good. That was Ronnie's tactic, and it's Arnie's.

I thought Arnie was going to open the books and magically make the debt go away. Where's my happy ending?

especially when campaigning. That's one way to say the numbers don't lie, they do!

ant he iss neffer wrong

(snip) The governor has said he needs both elements to begin putting California's fiscal house in order. But to get the two-thirds approval needed, Schwarzenegger will have to attract 22 Democrats in the Assembly and 12 Democrats in the Senate to his side, while getting all of the Legislature's Republicans to support him.

Lawmakers have only until Friday at midnight to act on the measures to allow time for election officials to prepare ballots for the March election.

Senate Republican Leader Jim Brulte, of Rancho Cucamonga, said the Democrats were playing politics. "The governor has proposed a spending limit and the Democrats don't want a spending limit that's the conflict. Their balanced budget proposal does not require a balanced budget next year or any year into the future.

"If you take a pig and call it a cat, it doesn't make it a cat,' he said.

http://www.presstelegram.com/Stories/0,1413,204~21474~1809876,00.html


Brulte

My state is in bad shape, and it's going to get worse. So is my nation.

Just how bad will it have to get before "We the People" decide to throw these ignorant monkey-boys off our backs?

Rush takes his pills, while our nation buys economic methamphetamine and heroin with money we steal from our kids.

Yeah, here we are flat on the floor squirming around in our own shit, shooting at monsters we can't quite keep a focus on, but don't worry, things aren't too bad, George and Arnold say they can get us another fix.

"It's not over 'till Arnold gropes the fat lady" —Bill Press, on MSNBC

http://www.recallarnoldwatch.org

Get the settlement from the California energy company lawsuit!




rocknation

He IS working hard to keep his vow of not raising taxes.

Granted, the method of doing this will seriously muck with California's financial and economic future and screw the state down the road, but nonetheless he's working to keep a campaign promise. A stupid one that flies in the face of all rational budgeting and good governance, but a promise nonetheless.

Now, if CA votes on these ballot proposals and approves them, well, good luck to y'all...