Flags flew at half-staff and state buildings were draped in black crepe today to mourn the untimely demise of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
While no one is officially using the term “suicide,” the cause of death seems to have been the governor’s own actions: he promised during the campaign that funding for education would be cut “over my dead body,” and his decision to propose exactly such cuts appears to have had fatal consequences.
His term of office, though the shortest in the history of the state, will be remembered for the vigor of the leadership he provided. We shall not look upon his like again.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is dead
I haven’t been writing about Governor Gangbang all that much, because the everything that’s happening is so predictable. The people of California were stupid enough to believe Arnie’s outrageous promises, which he obviously couldn’t keep, and now it’s …
Arnold Schwarzenegger dies from own campaign lies
Blogger Mark Kleiman manages to find some humor in California’s dismal situation.