The Terminator in Trouble
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is under fire in California. Although initially known as ‘The Terminator,’ he is now known as a moderate and serious moderate Republican willing to reach across the aisle.
California’s future, however, doesn’t look bright. The State has major financial problems:
California legislators met Monday to reconsider a proposal to close the state’s $42 billion deficit after aborting a vote Sunday night because they failed to find one more Republican vote needed to approve a budget…
Democrat Darrell Steinberg, the state Senate leader, expressed confidence that another Republican senator would join the two who have committed to vote with the Democratic majority in approving a budget that would raise taxes and cut spending. Three Republican votes are needed to reach the two-thirds majority that California requires from both houses of its Legislature to approve budgets and tax increases.
There are four sides to the story:
1. Democrats can use it against Republicans to portray the latter as fiscally irresponsible (they’ll do this)
2. Conservative Republicans can use it to marginalize moderates among them (will be done as well)
3. Republicans can use it against Democrats to portray the latter as fiscally irresponsible since they, not Republicans, control the State’s Senate (this one too will be done)
4. Voters will pay dearly for their leaders’ mistakes and irresponsible behavior
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