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(snip) Many conservatives rallied around his candidacy because they believed that he truly understood the need to control the size of government and reduce the tax burden on businesses and families. Today, many of those early Schwarzenegger supporters feel he has walked away from his commitment to curb the growth of government. His health-care proposal, which proposes a new tax on California businesses, and his State of the State address, which called for more spending and doesn't fundamentally deal with the state's spending problem, didn't do much to alleviate that concern. Rather than tell Republicans he is abandoning them, and...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger used his 2007 State of the State speech to declare his independence from “partisanship,” declare war on the Republican Party, and formally declare his separation from reality. He said we are entering a new era of history — felicitously named by his speechwriters “post-partisan” — conjuring the eerie echoes of the new age psycho-babble so much the rage during the “Age of Aquarius.” The Aquarian age — declared with much fanfare by various hippies, gurus, and The Fifth Dimension singing group sometime in the mid-’60s — was to see peace guiding the planets, love steering the stars,...