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We need a Total Recall of the current governor of California, Gray Davis.
He must be Terminated. Which Running Man will replace him? There are a lot of Predators out there, furiously Pumping political Iron. Most of them will end up as Collateral Damage. Davis's own doom is inevitable. Let's face it, he's not exactly Conan the Barbarian right now when it comes to political throw power. He's been telling too many True Lies to the electorate--unlike the fake lies they get from everybody else. Davis is in a Red Heat to save his job, but even if this Junior politician were Twins he'd soon be Jingling All the Way to oblivion. He won't be back. Hasta la...
Okay, I'll stop now. (Almost. Robert Bidinotto reminds me that if Arnold doesn't win, "it will be a Raw Deal.") Switching gears.... This from Sacramento Bee's Daniel Weintraub, at his blog, noting how Arianna Huffington knows Arnold will be bad for California (because he's not an enviro-freak): "Arnold and Arianna showed up at the same time to file their papers today, and I hear that Huffington stuck so close to Arnie's camera shot that she tripped over some of the news crews' cables. She also took advantage of the opportunity to slam A.S. for driving a 'gas-guzzling S.U.V.' Arianna drove a hybrid Toyota that gets 52 mpg, said CNN."
Uh...she didn't walk to the event...??? Let's just say Arianna isn't operating on a full tank.
If elected, Mr. Schwarzenegger may end up being wishy-washy when push comes to shove, but at least the broad-brush version of his views sounds good. He's a fan of Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose" series on the virtues of the free market. When the series was reissued 12 years ago, he did an introduction for it, praising its personal impact on him. "I come from Austria, a socialistic country. There you can hear 18-year-olds talking about their pension. But me, I wanted more. I wanted to be the best. Individualism like that is incompatible with socialism. I felt I had to come to America, where the government wasn't always breathing down your neck or standing on your shoes."
Bill Quick of Daily Pundit fame--the same wise and sagacious William Quick, a smart man, a good man, who claims that reading Crunch Report articles is like a bowl of salt-roasted peanuts ("I dare you to eat just one")--observes, though, that it's hardly just the morally-vacuous brain-dead hologram governor that's the political problem in California. It's also the giveaway-at-taxpayer-expense mentality that has long been rampant in the plunderful state among Democrats and Republicans alike. Still, some California journalists who blame "term limits" for the state's $38-billion-deficit-sized fiscal crisis also claim that the best proof of the doctrine that newbie legislators are too green to govern is their unwillingness to hike taxes even faster. As if California got to this pass by failing to really screw the taxpayers. But this only proves that you can be a journalist for any amount of time and still not know anything.
Says Quick, who lives in California: "I say, throw all the bums out. This state is ruled by special interests, from the unions to the race-and-gender pimps to the big corporations. If we are ever to pull ourselves out of our slump and deal with our myriad problems, that stranglehold is the first thing we have to break." He cites a profligate pension give-away a few years ago to state workers, the legislative non-debate on which is recalled by Weintraub.
Term limits can't bust up the big-spending, big-taxing, daft-regulating stranglehold all by itself. But term limits sure do put a crowbar in the door, presenting an opportunity for better people if better people want to take a shot at cleaning up the mess. Which is why politicians in California are even as we speak, right now, in musty smoke-filled rooms, getting set to spring yet another anti-term-limits measure on the voters. Even though the last attempt, Proposition 45, was smashed at the ballot box less than two years ago.
Arnold, gotta job for ya....
--David M. Brown, 8/10/03
P.S. The best E-bin way to keep up to date with the term limits movement and political wrongdoings in California and elsewhere is to read Paul Jacob's "Common Sense" column, based on his brief daily radio commentary. It's sent to email subscribers three days a week and you can zip through it in about a minute. Visit the web site of U.S. Term Limits to sign up.
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