[Hildy]

We should take out an ad in every California newspaper and print these quotes from their Democratic leaders. They do not want things to change, just stay the same so they can maintain their power. It's so pathetic...and scary.

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Richard Riordan, the father of the Internet Tax, on Arnold's transition team

No taxes...hmmmmmm???

[Carry_Okie]

His top priorities for spending will be those programs that promote opportunity for all -- starting with public education.

This presumes that the public education bureaucracy even has such a goal of promoting opportunity. By all appearances, they don't, except for themselves.

[Carry_Okie]

"Fight like hell," Maslin said when I asked him how Democrats should respond. "Fight like hell. This is real. This is serious. This is ongoing. This is the first battle. You fight this guy every step of the way and the people behind him. You don't ever let him up. The Legislature may talk about cooperation, that's fine, they've got to do their job, but in terms of Democrats, we fight and we fight and we fight."

Oh, but being a moderate, Arnold will know how to build a consensus. He wants to be governor of all the people. He'll go to the people and they will contact their legislators...

Not. Californians are too busy, too lazy, or too distracted to do diddly.

Democrats are street fighters, because to them, this is about power. They don't give a damn about the people. That's where Arnold has it all wrong.

His best chance for success lies in somehow treading water for a year or two while waiting for the economy to improve and conducting a serious review -- not a 60-day audit -- aimed at restructuring the way the state does business. He will find that the $13 billion in waste Sen. Tom McClintock spoke often about does not exist.

Weintraub will not tell you where the money goes. Over half of the education budget never sees a classroom. Tom knows it. Wilson didn't have the stomach to put up this kind of fight and Arnold, who lives for public adulation, won't stand the heat of a mediot hornet's nest.

But if he can detail his former opponent to find say, $2 billion or $3 billion that is doable, and doable in relatively quick fashion, it would be a major contribution.

Tom would have just hit these creeps with a stick because that's the only thing they understand. They are not that far different than Saddam Hussein. Maybe that's because he's known them for 20 years.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

State Sen. Sheila Kuehl, a Democrat from Santa Monica and a candidate to replace John Burton as Senate leader next year, was contemptuous toward the new governor. She said it will be the Senate's job to "save the state ... from ignorance" and added that "this guy has no idea how to run the state." Some Democrats, she said, might not bother showing up for his first State-of-the-State speech.

I go back and forth to which one I hate more, Kuehl or Goldberg. I would ADORE a recall of both of them. Incendentally, anybody know when these two are up for reelection? We should start focusing on them, there is a sense of mystery about these very powerful people in our state.

I suspect the same will hold true for his administration. Expect surprises. Expect success.

Dan was in a dream world during the campaign, he's still not woken up yet. These people will not be coddled by moderation and triangulation, they'll be encouraged by the blood in the water...You don't compromise with evil, you defeat it.

[no_problema]

feminists were more in touch with gov. davis' wimpiness.

a white male with a "can-do" attitude really upsets them!

[Saundra Duffy]

The gov elect just appointed WILLIE BROWN to serve on the transition team. God help us all. (I call Willie Brown "Bill Clinton's shoe shiner.)

[Revolting cat!]

He'll go there and quote these RATS lines from his movies until they behave:

"You wanna know the truth?! You can't handle the TRUTH!"

"Go ahead, make my day!"

and

"You talkin' to me?!"

And in the end, if it all doesn't work out, he'll just say:

"Forget it Marge, it's Chinatown!"

... and walk away.

[dennisw]

What California really has to do is look at the 75% of the budget that is supposedly untouchable social welfare programs. I don't live there so I can only guess that such crap as medical, housing subsidies, environmental stuff, school subsidies, state pensions are in this untouchable zone.

The 'cRAT strategy is to obligate state spending ahead of time at high levels (can you say socialism?) by locking in allegedly inviolable programs. I say it's time to violate them.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

["What's this guy got to say to us about the state of the state?" Kuehl asked. "Nothing."]

Well, for starters, you FC, he is a taxpaying citizen of the state, AND the governor elect, with a team of experts at his side to repair the damaged that YOU caused to our beloved state. These arrogant jerks must be removed as soon as possible. If it were up to me, well, what I would like to say simply cannot be said...

[91B]

State Sen. Sheila Kuehl, a Democrat from Santa Monica and a candidate to replace John Burton as Senate leader next year, was contemptuous toward the new governor. She said it will be the Senate's job to "save the state ... from ignorance" and added that "this guy has no idea how to run the state." Some Democrats, she said, might not bother showing up for his first State-of-the-State speech.

"What's this guy got to say to us about the state of the state?" Kuehl asked. "Nothing."

She sounds scared to me. She knows that the state is in a lot of trouble and that her party cannot escape the blame that it deserves for it. She saw the peasants rise up in revolt on recall day, and it scared her.

[DoctorZIn]

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