You've Already Won, GOP (Red Arnold Flack Urges CAGOP To Capitulate Alert)

Los Angeles Times ^ | 08/10/2007 | Dan Dunmoyer

[goldstategop]

Senate Republicans don't seem to know how to declare victory and walk away from the table. If they continue to hold up the budget -- especially for non-budget issues -- after getting what they asked for in vetoes, the process implodes, negotiations will start from scratch, and we will likely lose the billions of dollars in reductions contained in the bill passed by the Assembly.

Schwarzenegger has worked very well with Republicans on such issues as reforming workers' compensation, cutting the car tax, building prisons, increasing the water supply and protecting the "three strikes" law. He has worked equally well with Democrats on fighting global warming, reforming healthcare, raising the minimum wage and protecting education funding. The center is where most Californians are, and that's why the centrist governor has enjoyed strong public support.

There are good ideas on both sides of the political aisle, and legislators in Sacramento -- Republican and Democrat -- are fighting for principled reasons. But sometimes compromise really does produce the best public policy, and when you cannot compromise, the perfect becomes the enemy of the good.

[goldstategop]

Red Arnold's Cabinet Secretary - is NOT placing pressure on the Democrats to eliminate deficit spending but to insist the CAGOP capitulate and throw away a balanced budget and an end to environmental lawsuits that threaten to strangle California's economy. This editorial is a clear reminder to conservatives, that besides the Governor himself, there isn't ONE real conservative in the inner circle of the Schwarzenegger Administration. That's why its chosen to side with the Democrats on the budget.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Gil4]

“...besides the Governor himself, there isn’t ONE real conservative in the inner circle of the Schwarzenegger Administration.”

The next real conservative in the Schwarzenegger administration will be the first, including the governor himself.

[CounterCounterCulture]

There are good ideas on both sides of the political aisle

Bzzzzt. Wrong answer. Thanks for playing, but you can go home now. You don't even get a year's supply of rice-o-roni as a consolation prize.

[Amerigomag]

besides the Governor himself, there isn't ONE real conservative in the inner circle of the Schwarzenegger Administration.

Probably would have sounded better as:

because of the Governor, there isn't ONE conservative in the Schwarzenegger Administration.