If they could both leave office in January 2009, it’d be fine by me.. ;-)
The girly-man of politics and faux-conservative have struck up a friendship.
Who would have guessed?
On this issue it was inevitable that they would find common ground. I don’t know if anyone heard the clip of Arnold going off on a reporter who was trying to get him to “Do a Blanco” but Arnold was not about to start whining and blaming the feds.
Ethics aside, to blame the administration would be to label himself incompetent and helpless and he has hardly been that. Furthermore, as the article makes plain, the best way of getting aid bucks out of the feds is to make nice with them. Politics 101?
Even Skeletor can’t order him to cut his own throat.
Why am I not surprised?
I really liked that all-star press conference yesterday. Arnold had all the top officials lined up, singing each other’s praises in a show of professional collegiality.
I also heard Lt. Governor Garamendi praising the FEMA response and wondered how long it will be before he will be able to sit comfortably after whatever going-over Arnold must have given him in his “smoking-tent.”