I don't have time to work a full diary, right now, but as a California Democrat, it disgusts me when I see people promote Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as a liberal or moderate. He talks the talk, but he doesn't walk the walk. The corporate media eats it up, but we have to be smarter than that!
Here's part of the reason why...
Last year, Louis Freedberg, of the San Francisco Chronicle, wrote about the Democratic legislature's having been duped into enabling Schwarzenegger's political rehabilitation, when they could have buried him and helped put an actual Democrat in the Governor's office. He closed with these telling lines:
So instead of ended up as a washed-up talk-show host like former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, Schwarzenegger's political future knows no limits.
There's talk of him running against U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer in four years.
Sen. Schwarzenegger? He can thank those wonkish Democrats for even making it a possibility.
Among recent diarists:
E Love wrote about Schwarzenegger's sellout on Prison Reform.
Former State Assemblymember Hannah-Beth Jackson wrote about Schwarzenegger's mean-spirited budget.
Eugene wrote that Schwarzenneger is killing public transportation.
And last fall, Jennifer Poole wrote how Schwarzenegger used an "executive order" to gut the much-touted legislation on global warming!
Last fall, I also wrote two very long, detailed diaries:
CA-Gov: Schwarzenegger- Liar, Hypocrite, Corporate Whore!
CA-Gov: Schwarzenegger- Arrogant, Mean, Repugnantly Sleazy
Click the tag on Schwarzenegger, and you'll find plenty more. Don't believe the hype! Arnold Schwarzenegger is full of shit!