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I’m with Mark on this (not necessarily on the recall tactic) and I think Jon is quite wrong about Schwarzenegger. He’s been a profound failure at the main thing he needed to do, and no better than mediocre at the second. He may be cunning, but he’s not courageous and not even very [...]
Archive for the ‘California Recall’ Category
December 22nd, 2007
Category: California Recall
Not to throw cold water on things immediately, but I’m a little skeptical of Mark’s call for recalling the Governator.
Schwarzenegger 2.0 has turned out to be a much better Governor than I originally thought he would be. For the most part, this is due to his abandonment of Republican orthodoxy on a lot of [...]
December 20th, 2007
Category: California Recall
Why not? It’s now obvious, even to the voters, that his fiscal sleight-of-hand has only made the budget crisis worse. A recall vote coinciding with the Presidential vote would mean a heavy turnout among Democrats. Seems worth a shot to me.
December 11th, 2003
Category: California Recall
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 [...]
December 9th, 2003
Category: California Recall
So our new governor, having promised an investigation of his own groping activities in order to avoid answering any questions during the campaign — an investigation that would obviously be entirely worthless — has now decided that such an investigation would be entirely worthless, so he’s dropping the idea. And his spokesgeek insists that [...]
December 8th, 2003
Category: California Recall
Rhonda Miller, one of the women who accused Der Gropenfurer of gropenfurering her, only to have the campaign spokesthug, Sean Walsh, point reporters to the criminal record for prostitution, theft, etc., of a different Rhonda Miller, is suing Der Groper, Walsh, and the campaign for libel.
The Smoking Gun has the complaint, and the smoking-gun email [...]
December 1st, 2003
Category: California Recall
It looks as if Schwarzenegger, like Bush, having run as a moderate plans to govern as an extremist. (You really have to wonder how often this bait-and-switch deal is going to work.)
Yes, his environment secretary is actually an environmentalist, but everything else is straight from the Wilson-Reagan playbook. He kept the worst of [...]
November 17th, 2003
Category: California Recall
Kevin Drum reports that Der Gropenfurer is planning to raise taxes, just as everyone who could read a budget knew he would have to do.
I keep hearing about how it’s not good to call opposition politicians liars. But how many times do these guys get to campaign, and win, on blatantly fraudulent premises without [...]
October 13th, 2003
Category: California Recall
… they’re not. Mark Paul of the Sacramento Bee [*] links to this truly appalling Dennis Roddy story [*] from the Pittsburg Post-Gazette about how Sean Walsh, the Gubernator’s chief media spokesman, skirted the very edge of the libel laws in sliming one of the women who accused his boss of sexual battery. [...]
October 12th, 2003
Category: California Recall
For those of you concerned that the Schwarzenegger governorship might be disastrous in terms of liberal programs, the first sign is a hopeful one. Steve Lopez in the LA Times reports that the Governor intends to personally offer free breast exams.