Posted on 09/06/2006 3:24:56 PM PDT by kellynla
SACRAMENTO -- It was just two years ago that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, angered by his inability to get right-wing bills through his state's Democratic-controlled legislature, termed that body's leaders -- Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez and Sen. Don Perata -- "girlie men." This political neologism went over particularly big with a subgroup with which Arnold claimed a special rapport: Dumb Young White Guys.
Deluded, perhaps, by the belief that the Census Bureau systematically undercounted the DYWGs, the Governator then spent all of last year campaigning against the Democrats and their institutional allies. Attempting an end run around the legislature, he called a special election so that voters could approve four partisan Republican initiatives he supported, including a draconian spending limit and a measure that would have curtailed unions' political involvement. Somehow he overlooked that California is a heavily blue state, and a place where independents are more likely to vote Democratic than Republican. More bewildering still, he forgot that he had campaigned for governor in the 2003 recall election as the guy who would end the partisan bickering in Sacramento, as a Republican who would forge common-sense solutions with the Democrats.
The result was a flat-out disaster. All four of Schwarzenegger's initiatives went down in a heap. His approval rating, which stood at 62 percent as 2005 began, plummeted to 35 percent as 2005 ended. There weren't, it seemed, as many DYWGs as he had suspected
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Right-wing bills? I haven't seen anything right-wing from his office. It shows where this story is headed right off the bat.
"It shows where this story is headed right off the bat."
All we have to do is consider the source! LOL
Yet they all claim the year to be a success filled with "bipartisan" "accomplishments."
Let the DYWGs celebrate!
What do you expect from Meyerson?
I had to laugh at the reference to the "draconian spending limit." Apparently he means Prop 76, the so-called "Live within our means Act", that authorized more bond issues and $10 billion in new borrowing. Yep... draconian. LOL.
It's enough to make a conservative go "gay" so they don't feel out of place on the Gubby's bandwagon. (what am I saying?)
maybe that would explain some of his most ardent supporters behaviour here, trying to stick big tent poles in anyone's orifice who even dares to question motive... :-o
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
Even with all his money, and all his muscles, Arnold still ended up sleeping with a Kennedy, I ain't impressed!
Arnold is likely to do almost anything, if he is horny enough!
LOL... Excellent!
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