Memo To The New York Times

AMEN! (0.00 / 0)

Enough of this garbage. It's seriously long past time that we stopped with this frame of him being above it all. He's right there in the muck, and he can't be seperated from it.

I think?

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by: Brian Leubitz @ Sat May 02, 2009 at 01:34:45 AM UTC

Not so sure about that ... (0.00 / 0)

Did you see Gavin N. on Rachel Maddow's show?  He spoke of Arnold in glowing terms, said he had some disagreements with him (without naming any) but talking about how much sense he has, how much better than the legislative Republicans he is, suggesting that his alleged post-partisanship is a model that Newsom would follow.

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by: Joe Buck @ Sat May 02, 2009 at 04:09:08 AM UTC

Sorry, I don't know what Gavin sees, but (0.00 / 0)

it was plain to me that Arnold was anything but partisan hack when he vetoed the Democrats budget that was crafted to close the deficit with about equal parts tax increases and program cuts.  Arnold COULD have used the possibility of signing that budget as leverage to get R's to moderate their deathwish obstructionism, but he didn't.

Instead, he used the rabid Republicans as leverage to force Dems into agreeing to what the R's wanted, with the only 'concessions' structured in the ballot measures to help give the package a chance of passing.  

Arnold knows what to do and say when the cameras are rolling but he's serving Republican party interests when he acts - is Newsom just not bothering to pay attention?

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by: PeteB2 @ Sat May 02, 2009 at 05:21:01 AM UTC

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I think that's the point (0.00 / 0)

Arnie pretends he's post-partisan, the national media reports it as fact, but he never lives up to the tease.  

Newsom taking the bait doesn't show that Arnie is suddenly post-partisan.  Instead, it shows that Newsom is a Garry South-managed, triangulated centrist.

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by: Be_Devine @ Sat May 02, 2009 at 19:13:23 PM UTC

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Arnold even managed to fool PBS (0.00 / 0)

I was shocked to see a NOVA special on his stellar environmental record (mainly it had to do with energy and climate change).

Most of the country thinks of him as a decent, moderate, post-partisan fellow.  He's a much better actor now than he was in the 1980s.

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by: MD @ Sat May 02, 2009 at 22:59:45 PM UTC

Arnold is a celebrity (0.00 / 0)

Arnold never was and never will be a true Republican (just ask any member of the California Republican Party).  It is just as obvious that he is not a Democrat.  He is a celebrity and brings no more and no less than any celebrity might:plenty of ego, little experience or guiding ideology and a poll-driven agenda.

Now we know what it would be like to have Britney Spears as Governor.  

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by: smoker1 @ Sun May 03, 2009 at 00:00:13 AM UTC