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We must admit that we've been hard on California's Governator in the past. Arnold Schwarzenegger has done some foolish things, like the time he tried to mock Sarah Palin on Twitter and got mauled by the Mama Bear for his trouble. He's given us no reason to offer him any kudos. Until now.
Remember all the Democrat grandstanding by State Sen. Leland Yee and gubernatorial candidate/state attorney general Jerry Brown surrounding Gov. Palin’s speech at Cal State Stanislaus in June? Even though the appearance by the 2008 vice presidential candidate turned a tidy profit for the CSUS scholarship fund, Yee and other leftists made a mockery of the principles of contract law, all because they wanted to publicize the amount of her speakers fee for the event. Despite the fact the figure was, under the terms of the contract between the CSUS Foundation and the Washington Speakers Bureau, not to be disclosed, Yee introduced a bill in the California Senate to force private foundations associated with Cal State and UC to open their records, making such privileged contract information subject to public disclosure.
But when Yee's bill reached The Governator's desk for his signature, Schwarzenegger vetoed it instead. His reason? As officials for UC and Cal State correctly argued, some of their largest donors prefer to remain anonymous, and the bill would have a “chilling effect” on fundraising efforts by forcing the names of such donors to be made public. So one cheer for Arnold. He finally got something right as governor of California. Yee, Brown and other San Fran/LA-LA Land leftists did succeed in getting the amount Gov. Palin's CSUS speaking fee publicized. But all that accomplished, despite all the grandstanding and dumpster diving, was call attention to the fact that, after her fee and other expenses were paid, the university cleared a cool $200,000 for its scholarship fund, money that it wouldn't have drawing interest in the bank has she not appeared.
- JP
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Sunday, October 3, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Twitter wars: Sarah Palin 1, Arnold Schwarzenegger 0
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On a flight over Alaska, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took a gratuitous shot at Sarah Palin and missed. Her return fire, however was right on target. In their battle of the tweets, it's Palin 1, Schwarzenegger 0:
Advantage Palin.
Update: AP should know well by now that Gov. Palin never said that she could see Russia from her house. It was Tina Fey who is responsible for the line. But AP, the Anti-Palin wire service, is only too happy to keep the lie alive. That's just one reason why Gov. Palin adopted Bernie Goldberg's "lamestream media" terminology.
As for whether the governor of California knows who is actually responsible for the Russia line, we're sure he is as clueless on that score as he is about how to balance a budget.
- JP
On a flight over Alaska, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took a gratuitous shot at Sarah Palin and missed. Her return fire, however was right on target. In their battle of the tweets, it's Palin 1, Schwarzenegger 0:
His Twitter message Thursday night said he was "looking everywhere but can't see Russia from here," a reference to an infamous remark from Republican then-vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign.Under liberal Schwarzenegger California has a 19 billion dollar budget deficit. When she was governor of Alaska, conservative Sarah Palin's state enjoyed budget surpluses of as much as 5 billion dollars.
That prompted a tart response from Palin on Friday.
The former Alaska governor says in her own Twitter message that "Arnold should have landed" so she could explain to him her state's multibillion dollar budget surplus.
Advantage Palin.
Update: AP should know well by now that Gov. Palin never said that she could see Russia from her house. It was Tina Fey who is responsible for the line. But AP, the Anti-Palin wire service, is only too happy to keep the lie alive. That's just one reason why Gov. Palin adopted Bernie Goldberg's "lamestream media" terminology.
As for whether the governor of California knows who is actually responsible for the Russia line, we're sure he is as clueless on that score as he is about how to balance a budget.
- JP
Monday, January 18, 2010
Quote of the Day (January 18, 2010)
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Adam Andrzejewski, one of seven GOP candidates for Governor of Illinois:
Adam Andrzejewski, one of seven GOP candidates for Governor of Illinois:
"I'd rather be a Sarah Palin than an Arnold Schwarzenegger."- JP
Friday, December 18, 2009
"Distraction Action": Arnold Hoisted on His Own Petard
- By Ian Ransom
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Fine, I’ll admit it. My state (California) is a geographical miracle, a potent paradise of panoramic splendor, an oasis of almost outlandish opportunity, and a bedazzling beacon of American “Be All You Can Be” bravura.
It is also a befuddled frontier of fiscal fecklessness managed—-literally—-by boobs.
Yes, boobs.
Silicone and saline-inflated ones from San Luis Obispo south to San Diego (with a particularly critical-mass concentration in the Greater Los Angeles Area). Wine-saturated, sushi-stuffed and self-righteous “boobs-of-a-different-sort” from Paso Robles north to Sacramento.
Throughout the entire expanse, left-leaning hearts hemorrhage pools of vain ideological blood in perfect time to the arrhythmic beat of government crowbars atop the state’s dwindling coffers. Barbara Boxer bares Starbucks-stained fangs at military officials and brays her demands for titular homage. Sean Penn idly picks 500 thread-count lint from his belly-button and ponders new ways to render obsequies to Marxist dictators. A coven of Code Pinkies in San Francisco gathers 'round a Sarah Palin voodoo-doll, thankfully unable to lift their pin-sticking claws due to the onset of vegan anemia and misdirected ennui.
Meanwhile, Arnold the Governator observes it all from his terrifying, Terminating peak. He fiddles atop a perilous pedestal while the entire state continues its inexorable slide into the waiting Pacific—-crumbling away, though not due to any number of potentially predictable environmental disasters. Indeed, the power and possibility of California collapses under the mammoth weight of its own political subsistence.
In California, government is the “environmental disaster.”
Faced with his own, earnest failure to steer the world’s fourth largest economy in anything remotely resembling a “direction,” Schwarzenegger now opts, instead, to engage in the disturbingly familiar politics of deflection and distraction—-telltale signs of a pining Beltway bombast...signs of his own ruin. Arnold has attempted to belittle Palin, one of the nation’s most successful and energy-savvy governors and (whether he likes it or not) the de facto leader of his stated Party’s conservative movement. Yet, like many RINOs before, Schwarzenegger has been so utterly whipped by the vast liberal dismantling of his own back-yard that he’s starting to embrace bits of the enemy's doomed mythology! In the delirium, he besmirches a fellow leader on an ostensibly energy-related issue—-an issue concerning which she has far more first-hand knowledge and proven experience.
It's a sad day for California Republicans when Arnold slights Sarah, dear friends. Then again, if you were here, you'd realize that there are a lot of sad days to go around. More than anyone in this great state ought to endure, but perhaps more deserved here than anywhere else, due to rampant political idiocy. In this respect, Arnold Schwarzenegger has unquestionably hoisted himself on his own petard. By choosing such a silly, disingenuous, and specific stance against Sarah Palin on the global warming hoax, he has showcased his true agenda quite clearly in the great Wheat-From-the-Chaff separation game. To those of us who live in California and embrace common sense conservatism, this comes as no surprise.
Arnold certainly can’t preoccupy himself with any success of his own these days. Perhaps a jealous preoccupation with someone else’s success is—-amid his sinking political landscape—-the next best thing.
- Ian
Ian Ransom is the editor of The Ian Ransom Notes
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Fine, I’ll admit it. My state (California) is a geographical miracle, a potent paradise of panoramic splendor, an oasis of almost outlandish opportunity, and a bedazzling beacon of American “Be All You Can Be” bravura.
It is also a befuddled frontier of fiscal fecklessness managed—-literally—-by boobs.
Yes, boobs.
Silicone and saline-inflated ones from San Luis Obispo south to San Diego (with a particularly critical-mass concentration in the Greater Los Angeles Area). Wine-saturated, sushi-stuffed and self-righteous “boobs-of-a-different-sort” from Paso Robles north to Sacramento.
Throughout the entire expanse, left-leaning hearts hemorrhage pools of vain ideological blood in perfect time to the arrhythmic beat of government crowbars atop the state’s dwindling coffers. Barbara Boxer bares Starbucks-stained fangs at military officials and brays her demands for titular homage. Sean Penn idly picks 500 thread-count lint from his belly-button and ponders new ways to render obsequies to Marxist dictators. A coven of Code Pinkies in San Francisco gathers 'round a Sarah Palin voodoo-doll, thankfully unable to lift their pin-sticking claws due to the onset of vegan anemia and misdirected ennui.
Meanwhile, Arnold the Governator observes it all from his terrifying, Terminating peak. He fiddles atop a perilous pedestal while the entire state continues its inexorable slide into the waiting Pacific—-crumbling away, though not due to any number of potentially predictable environmental disasters. Indeed, the power and possibility of California collapses under the mammoth weight of its own political subsistence.
In California, government is the “environmental disaster.”
Faced with his own, earnest failure to steer the world’s fourth largest economy in anything remotely resembling a “direction,” Schwarzenegger now opts, instead, to engage in the disturbingly familiar politics of deflection and distraction—-telltale signs of a pining Beltway bombast...signs of his own ruin. Arnold has attempted to belittle Palin, one of the nation’s most successful and energy-savvy governors and (whether he likes it or not) the de facto leader of his stated Party’s conservative movement. Yet, like many RINOs before, Schwarzenegger has been so utterly whipped by the vast liberal dismantling of his own back-yard that he’s starting to embrace bits of the enemy's doomed mythology! In the delirium, he besmirches a fellow leader on an ostensibly energy-related issue—-an issue concerning which she has far more first-hand knowledge and proven experience.
It's a sad day for California Republicans when Arnold slights Sarah, dear friends. Then again, if you were here, you'd realize that there are a lot of sad days to go around. More than anyone in this great state ought to endure, but perhaps more deserved here than anywhere else, due to rampant political idiocy. In this respect, Arnold Schwarzenegger has unquestionably hoisted himself on his own petard. By choosing such a silly, disingenuous, and specific stance against Sarah Palin on the global warming hoax, he has showcased his true agenda quite clearly in the great Wheat-From-the-Chaff separation game. To those of us who live in California and embrace common sense conservatism, this comes as no surprise.
Arnold certainly can’t preoccupy himself with any success of his own these days. Perhaps a jealous preoccupation with someone else’s success is—-amid his sinking political landscape—-the next best thing.
- Ian
Ian Ransom is the editor of The Ian Ransom Notes
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Ed Morrissey: Arnold should mind his own store
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At Hot Air, Ed Morrissey says Sarah Palin's counter-punch to Arnold Schwarzenegger's weak-fisted jab at her was justified, while the Governator's attack makes no sense:
Update: Arnie's approval rating has tanked.
- JP
At Hot Air, Ed Morrissey says Sarah Palin's counter-punch to Arnold Schwarzenegger's weak-fisted jab at her was justified, while the Governator's attack makes no sense:
As Allahpundit noted, the attack on Palin seems pretty strange, from a political point of view.Indeed, from the standpoint of governance, California is an economic basket case, while Alaska has weathered the recession better than most other states. Arnold would do well to shut his mouth and take some lessons in how to run a state without running it into the ground from Alaska's former governor.
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And Palin’s right to skewer Arnold on economics. When California shows that it has the fiscal responsibility to actually cut its spending and bring its budget into balance while not overburdening its citizens with oppressive taxes and regulation, then perhaps its governor can offer advice on economics and policy. Until then, Arnold should mind his own store and save his wit for the state legislature.
Update: Arnie's approval rating has tanked.
- JP
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Sarah Palin answers Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Posting on her Facebook Notes page, Sarah Palin this evening answered California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's criticism of her earlier today on the climate change issue:
- JP
Posting on her Facebook Notes page, Sarah Palin this evening answered California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's criticism of her earlier today on the climate change issue:
Greener Than Thou?Governate that, Mr. California!
Why is Governor Schwarzenegger pushing for the same sorts of policies in Copenhagen that have helped drive his state into record deficits and unemployment? Perhaps he will recall that I live in our nation’s only Arctic state and that I was among the first governors to create a sub-cabinet to deal specifically with climate change. While I and all Alaskans witness the impacts of changes in weather patterns firsthand, I have repeatedly said that we can’t primarily blame man’s activities for those changes. And while I did look for practical responses to those changes, what I didn’t do was hamstring Alaska’s job creators with burdensome regulations so that I could act “greener than thou” when talking to reporters.
- Sarah Palin
- JP
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