article.nationalreview.com - 2/20/2009
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Once, Schwarzenegger was supposed to be a model for a more appealing, more moderate Republican Party. All he has demonstrated is that moderation on the road to fiscal ruin is no virtue.
thedailybeast.com - 2/23/2009
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thedailybeast.com —
How bad did things get between Der Governator
and his fellow Republicans? Schwarzenegger s biographer, Joe Mathews
, reports that he recently considered dropping out of the party altogether. It s the latest blast in a long-running war. A few months ...
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Arnold Considered Party Switch
politics.theatlantic.com - 2/19/2009
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politics.theatlantic.com —
SACRAMENTO-While tensions are rising between President Obama and
Congressional Republicans, California's Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he
is eager for more opportunities to partner with Obama on big issues like health care and energy. ...
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President Obama's Top Republican Ally
sacbee.com - 2/19/2009
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sacbee.com —
Sen. Abel Maldonado casts his vote, helping the
state Senate pass its budget compromise. The bill later
was approved by the Assembly and now awaits Gov. Schwarzenegger's signature. The deal is done. The California Legislature voted early ...
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Budget plan goes to Schwarzenegger after Legislature's OK
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Weep for the future
doubleplusundead —
Weep for the future Rich Lowry has a good but depressing column on my home state and Der Governator today: If the future happens in California, we all should tremble at its ever-expanding debt, falling credit ratings, crushing pension obligations, suffocating regulation, and rising taxes — with environmentally preening, ill-considered restrictions on carbon emissions thrown on top. California Democrats are only slightly ahead of national Democrats, so the country’s fiscal future may be in preview in Sacramento. Read the whole thing, and pray that Lowry is wrong about the ...
No Action Hero
The Corner on National Review Online —
[image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] Friday, February 20, 2009 [image] No Action Hero [ Kathryn Jean Lopez ] Rich weighs in on the Governator here , too, today. 02/20 02:19 PM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2009. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us ...
Arnold
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] I got blowback today from Arnold s office saying it s wrong to say (as I did in my column ) that he wanted a bailout because he explicitly said he didn t. On January 26, I m informed, the governor said, But the key thing here is not to let anyone fool themselves by thinking that the federal government should bail out California or, as far as that goes, that the federal government should bail out any state, because I think that the most important thing is for states to correct their problems and the mistakes that were made. Of course, he said this after writing a letter to ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 2/20/2009 — I got blowback today from Arnold's office saying it's wrong to say (as I did in my column) that he wanted a bailout because he explicitly said he didn't. On January 26, I'm informed, the governor said, "But the key thing here is not to let anyone fool ...
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Gov. Schwarzenegger praised California lawmakers for resolving the budget impasse in the legislature.
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Reuters: Politics 2/21/2009
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a package of bills on Friday to close a $42 billion state budget gap, clearing the way for his campaign to rally voters to endorse ballot measures needed to further bolster the ...