Originally Posted By mawnck >>"I find it interesting that you have a lot of the Republicans running around, and pushing back on the stimulus money and saying, 'This doesn't create any new job,'" said Schwarzenegger. "And then they go out and do the photo ops, posing with the big check and they say: 'Isn't this great, look at the kind of money I've provided for the state and this is money to create jobs, and this has created 10,000 new jobs, this has created 20,000 news jobs, and all those kinds of things.' It doesn't match up." It's hypocrisy, said host Terry Moran. "Exactly," Schwarzenegger replied. "I don't want to beat up on my Republican colleagues but I think it is kind of politics rather than thinking about one thing, and this is: 'How do we support the president? How do we support him and everything we can in order to go and stimulate the economy back and think about the people and not the politics?'<< <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/21/schwarzenegger-rips-romne_n_470594.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...594.html</a>
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Saw that. I completely agree. I yearned for the day he would have been allowed to simply clock a few Republicans in Sacramento and get a decent budget passed that included increased revenues.
Originally Posted By snappyfun Schwarzenegger is what you get after sleeping with a Kennedy for all those years.
Originally Posted By gadzuux Republicans have ALWAYS been skeptical (at best) about arnold - and this is why. Pointing out glaring GOP hypocricy and craven political manipulation isn't going to win him any friends in the republican party. You have to wonder what he's doing in the party at all. Republican politicians have no interest in "how do we support the president" - they actively seek to undermine the president at every turn. If that means that the country is steered into calamity in the process - then so be it - republicans believe this will serve their political interests. They have no concern at all about the interests of the public they're supposed to serve. And this is what passes for patriotism in GOP circles.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Pointing out glaring GOP hypocricy and craven political manipulation isn't going to win him any friends in the republican party. You have to wonder what he's doing in the party at all.<< As commentators are pointing out ... the GOP doesn't hand out bailout money to bankrupt states. The Obama administration does. I still like Ahnold.
