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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 03:24 PM
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The best thing Californians can do right now is to remove Governor Arnold.
(At minimum because under his Governance, things have slipped into disarray and must be corrected by, say, a team of Obama's people.)

The reasons are manifold yet center upon previous and existing attempts by Republicans to repeal the limitation regarding foreign national becoming President. Having failed, we next see Arnold becoming California Governor via a plan thought out by Enron involving power black-outs, rate hikes, and other irritations designed to make the citizenry angry enough to blame the then current Governor, and to oust him/install Arnold via a proffered run-off election. Tibetans call these practices "creating causes and conditions". Enron employees were recorded discussing this plot.

Arnold is rumored to have met with Enron prior to the start of the black-outs. Enron were also major BushCo contributors.

Note that when Arnold got into office, he attacked several sections of the infrastructure, including the nursing and fire-fighting structures, among others. They fought back against what were obvious attacks, and won.

Arnold "gave in to the will of the people", and changed his structure of attack, which involves guess what, an Enron-like crisis involving the state budget.

Voters were offered bad choices last May 19, and refused them. Of course, this then allows Arnold to do what he wishes to the state infrastructure, in order to "balance the budget". Such actions already involve reported nearly total cuts for in-home nursing care excepting only the worst instances, cuts in mental health care, and several other attacks upon the weakest members of local society. The sanctity of the State parks system is in question, and possible privatization (Republicans love Privatization, which basically means, "we own and control this").

Republicans have long hated Blue California and its many Presidential votes. I wonder if splitting the State into North and South might possibly alter one part, possibly the North, into a just-barely Red "state", robbing us of much of our deserved power in the Electoral process. This is of course supposition, yet we must consider that friends of Enron might also behave like Enron. Bush certainly did, attempting to convince us to give Social Security funding/reserves to Wall Street under the guise of an(other) imminent threat. He of course simply went ahead and gave one trillion dollars to Wall Street and the banks just prior to leaving office (rumor has it that this will be the scathing subject of Michael Moore's next documentary..GO MICHAEL!).

I am both reading and writing between the lines in this post (and readily accept the tin-foil jokes which are mandatory with such things), as I always wish to decode the trends I note into a recognizable structure. Suffice to say, Arnold used ridicule to gain his body-building title; a documentary is available and if I am incorrect, apologize, however, this is my memory of it. Arnold entered California office and attacked the infrastructure in the same manner Bush and Reagan attacked the middle class and the national infrastructure. The actions are there for your own conclusions; these are mine, and they point to the very real need to immediately remove him from office. He has already done enough damage to California; do not allow them to attempt to create a Presidential-level "special election" as they have here. This is not inevitable, but to quote Front 242, "It worked so well before. Let's use it once more." Just to keep your eyes open for such proven tactics!

Ooga Booga Smooga Wooga to you as well, patriot.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 03:40 PM
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1. Maybe we should pressure him into resigning. That would give us
Lt. Gov. John Garamendi to finish his term. John has a background in finance and is a savvy politician. Of course the dark forces behind Arnold's rise to power would rather see the state turn into a banana republic rather than convince Arnold to do the right thing.

:tinfoilhat:
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 03:46 PM
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2. Hey Cleita.
It will get worse, and people will want change (which of course allows the Republicans to -again- offer their own choices to an increasingly troubled public, just as Bush did..).

From Wikipedia.org's GOP page, for anyone not believing that these people are indeed long-term schemers:

"Republican Karl Rove and other commentators had speculated about a permanent political realignment in favor of the GOP along the lines of the presidential election of 1896, in which William McKinley constructed a Republican majority that lasted for the next 36 years."

Need I mention that Newt Gingrich should be permanently restricted from any and all positions of power and influence?
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 04:00 PM
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5. Also, when we were in the middle of recall fiasco, the late Gov. Ann Richards
of Texas said in a TV interview that the fingers in the recall reached all the way back to Washington. She got the information through the political grapevine she said.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 03:48 PM
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3. I don't think we can afford it. It costs a lot of money.
:(

And keeping this miserable failure might help in the midterms?
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Xolodno Donating Member (310 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 03:51 PM
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4. ....
/facepalm
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 04:25 PM
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7. Do some Enron research.
:shrug:
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IDFbunny Donating Member (530 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 04:08 PM
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6. Isn't his term almost over?
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4lbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 04:29 PM
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8. He's Governor until after 2012.
Ahnold took over in the special recall election that booted Democrat Gray Davis, in 2003.

His win allowed him to finish out Gray's term that he was elected to in 2000.

In Nov 2006, Ahnold was re-elected as Governor.
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Freddie Stubbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 02:01 PM
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12. If he was reelected in 2006, the new Governor would be elected in 2010
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 01:11 PM
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9. Just a last note on the subject..
A television channel stated that this is the worst the State has been since the Great Depression, or at least that the local recession is the worst since..and that the state is currently one of the most generous regarding social services, and that the changes he's ordered will make it one of the stingiest.

He has certainly Republicanized California, or at minimum, punished it quite well.

This is a mini version of what Bush has done to the country, economically and socially, an attempt to drive it back to the stone age and dependency upon the very rich (read: the very rich dominate the poor).

Arnold is now in the system, like a tapeworm. Better to inoculate and remove him from politics (act now or endure the results we've already seen with his familiars). Impeach/Remove...
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 01:14 PM
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10. Yeah! "Total Recall"!
Can you get it done by Saturday night when I'll be in Sac? Please??
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Retrograde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 01:54 PM
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11. it's not all Arnold
there are a bunch of Republican reps in the state senate and assembly that have decided to hold their breath, turn blue and take back their toys if they don't get their way. They're the reason we couldn't get a balanced budget for this year (and won't get one next year, either). Putting Garamendi in charge won't change that.
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