'Governor Schwarzenegger will not be attending the Republican Convention in St. Paul, citing the ongoing budget crisis in his state..."
Watching a crawl on the msnbc Gustav coverage, this is paraphrasing from memory:
'Governor Schwarzenegger will not be attending the Republican Convention in St. Paul, citing the ongoing budget crisis in his state..."
smack.
The governator is maybe the last of the moderate republicans with even a patina of 'moderate' still credibly assertable. The mention of the state budget crisis is, almost carelessly, brandished at a time when the mere drop of the topic induces bowel-movements within the ranks of the GOP?
He was reluctant to attend in the beginning, what pushed him over the edge?
The example set by potus & vp?