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2003-08-06 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-08-06 21:03|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 one n. If you listened to his speech he's got the populist thing going. He's got it in the bag - he wants the best for the state and DOESN'T NEED THE MONEY. Arianna's a brentwood dilletante, and Franken friend...GONG! I just hope Sacramento get's the message

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-6 9:10:01 PM|| 2003-8-6 9:10:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 They said on Fox that Arianna's hubby might run, too...

Posted by Fred 2003-8-6 9:26:04 PM|| 2003-8-6 9:26:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 This is great news but the local gossip is that Davis will bow out and let Bustamante take over as Gov. That way the Dems can still control things. His words 'I am going to Sacramento to clean house' has them running scared. Too bad I would have voted for him.

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-8-6 10:12:04 PM|| 2003-8-6 10:12:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Hmm one actor with a chimp, another actor an incoherent Nazi robot--sounds like a typical California Republican governor

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2003-8-6 10:27:27 PM|| 2003-8-6 10:27:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Both of whom beat Gray Davis by a long, long, shot, NMM. Gray managed to run the state into the ground even though tax revenues went up 25% in his tenure. How'd he do it? By increasing spending by 40%.

Even a chimp could figure that out.

Add to it Davis' attack-dog style politics and wet-fish personality, and you have a politican only a liberal could love.

The GOP could still screw this up, and probably will. But if you want to tie yourself to Gray Davis, NMM, you just go right ahead.

Posted by Steve White 2003-8-6 10:38:12 PM|| 2003-8-6 10:38:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 No fan of the appropriatley named Gray Davis either--all that money didn't go for welfare Cadillacs--the citizens of California got a lot of roads to support, etc that they don't want to pay for--ya can't have it both ways--gov't services without taxes ain't gonna happen

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2003-8-6 10:53:43 PM|| 2003-8-6 10:53:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I got nothing against actors (unless they're named "Alec Baldwin") after my experience with Ronald Reagan. Go, Arnie!

Posted by Dar 2003-8-6 11:02:04 PM|| [http://users.stargate.net/~dsteckel/] 2003-8-6 11:02:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 NMM: ya can't have it both ways--gov't services without taxes ain't gonna happen

Absolutely right. Californians dug themselves into this mess - and they're digging themselves out, by forcing a reduction of the services through the choice of a new governor. The roads they can afford - the Swedish-style family leave policies they can't.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-8-6 11:22:17 PM|| 2003-8-6 11:22:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Exactly Zhang--and David didn't rule by edict during this orgy of satisfying everyone's want for MORE highways etc did he?

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2003-8-6 11:24:01 PM|| 2003-8-6 11:24:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 NMM: David didn't rule by edict during this orgy of satisfying everyone's want for MORE highways etc did he?

Like I said, California voters decided they wanted to be Sweden on the Pacific. Now that they've discovered the impact of Swedish-style economic policies on jobs and taxes, they want out. Unlike the Swedes, Left Coast voters can force political change by doing a recall.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-8-6 11:29:09 PM|| 2003-8-6 11:29:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 OK then for once we agree--I just remember living in NJ--they raised taxes--threw out the Domocrats and promised a repeal of the coubling of the income tax--Christine Todd (LIAR) Whitman dropped taxes 15%--guess what--someone has to pay for roads, schools, etc. Local property taxes jumped--the money has to come from somewhere--the state shifted it to the localities--and the result was a wash

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2003-8-6 11:34:27 PM|| 2003-8-6 11:34:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 We do need the roads, and the energy, and this "orgy of satisfying everyone's want" left me and most other Kalifornians in the cold. Dude.

The orgy has intensified in this final paroxysm of granting every wish to every interest group, to garner another vote or two for Mr. Walking Dead, el Dudo.

Didja see the cross-dressing sanction he signed over the weekend? Didja catch the walk-up, no questions-aksed driver's license "initiative? How 'bout the blanket union endorsements, "we'll remember and we'll gitcha" threat?

These are the QueerNation/IllegalImmigrant/UnionMobster equivalents of the Emron/Haliburton/BigOil conspiracy, except these are real, and now.

Looking for those howls of outrage soon.

McClintock seemed to be the pol with the most going, but I want to hear Arnold's pitch. Perhaps NMM would like Ms. Huffington, who says nothing but it's deep? Her crystals are all resonating & stuff.

Never mind, it's not about revenue. After all, we're only chasing the bad businesses out of the state. The good ones who play ball will be rewarded by the Revolutionary Committee in due time. There will only be some slight discomfort for the duration of the emergency.

Posted by Mark IV 2003-8-6 11:49:33 PM|| 2003-8-6 11:49:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Local property taxes jumped--the money has to come from somewhere--the state shifted it to the localities--and the result was a wash

It might have been a wash for you and it might actually have been portrayed as a wash in the media. It certainly wasn't a wash for most of my friends in Jersey. As usual, the New York Times, which covers Jersey, put out its collection of half-truths to further its liberal agenda. The facts on the ground are that taxes were lowered under Whitman, but the Gray Lady managed to fudge these facts and elect another Democratic governor, who's just raised them again.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-8-6 11:50:16 PM|| 2003-8-6 11:50:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Unlike the Swedes, Left Coast voters can force political change by doing a recall.

Sounds like China.
I'm sorry. I meant Germany.
But of course, Arnold's no Nazi. He's just another smarmy foreign actor prostituting in Hollywood, set to tell us how to be better Americans.

...they're digging themselves out, by forcing a reduction of the services through the choice of a new governor

Ha Ha HO aurrrrr oh man. Hey, just what the h*** can a rookie guvner do, anyway? Hope he has a good agent . . .

Posted by Anonymous 2003-8-6 11:53:07 PM|| 2003-8-6 11:53:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 ZHANG-- the GOP (Great old Prevaricators) ran on a platform of TOTAL repeal--and THEY never did! Just shuffled the tax burden to the localities

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2003-8-6 11:57:07 PM|| 2003-8-6 11:57:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Anonymous: But of course, Arnold's no Nazi. He's just another smarmy foreign actor prostituting in Hollywood, set to tell us how to be better Americans.

A xenophobic left-wing troll? Where was he when we were defending Gitmo?

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-8-7 12:02:15 AM|| 2003-8-7 12:02:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 The "incoherent Nazi robot" smear must have been in the weekend DP talking points bulletin... it's all over the op-ed pieces. Yarharhar! And the actor jokes are pretty good. Never heard any of those before.

Can't wait to see what you do with "Schwarzenegger". Look it up.

Now "Bustamante", is he a mafiosi, or a bandido, to the sensitive left?

Posted by Mark IV 2003-8-7 12:03:25 AM|| 2003-8-7 12:03:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 MARK IV --damn I swear it was original--and don't cast aspersions with a defunct Lincoln marque! LOL
Anyway he's married to Maria Shriver so I'm sure he'll be kept in check!

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2003-8-7 12:08:21 AM|| 2003-8-7 12:08:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#19 And Nazi Germany and Communist China (clearly your meaning, unless your reference is to Hohenzollerns or Chius, and thus beyond my feeble comprehension) are examples of popular recalls by the people, under established laws, of elected officials???

Huh? I thought the anarcho-syndicalist commune was SUPPOSED to recall the corrupt, if that was the will of the people?

Posted by Mark IV 2003-8-7 12:13:36 AM|| 2003-8-7 12:13:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#20 Dude, if it helps... it's not a Lincoln marque, it's an old internet gaming handle that relates to a certain armored fighting vehicle.

You wouldn't understand, and neither would Arnold. His father might.

It was 65 years ago. It was the prototypical Xtreme performance off-road vehicle. Not the glamorous one, but the one that did the actual work. My way of emphasizing creative use of the resources at hand, in a different context.

Perhaps I am incoherent Nazi robot.

Scanning........

Nope.

Posted by Mark IV 2003-8-7 12:25:11 AM|| 2003-8-7 12:25:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#21 Where does Arnnie stand on illegal immigration?
Anybody Know?

Posted by raptor 2003-8-7 7:53:40 AM|| 2003-8-7 7:53:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#22 Where does Arnnie stand on illegal immigration?
Anybody Know?

Posted by raptor 2003-8-7 7:55:13 AM|| 2003-8-7 7:55:13 AM|| Front Page Top

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