Schwarzenegger missed his golden opportunity to give Californians the truth

[Sequoia]

Marx Brothers fans will recall that the political philosophy of Rufus T. Firefly in "Duck Soup" boiled down to this:

"If you think this country's bad off now, just wait 'til I get through with it."

I've often considered that to be the secret slogan of Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration (just substitute "this state" for "this country"). After Tuesday's election, it's no longer a secret.

Schwarzenegger had the kind of voter support in 2003 that would have allowed him to tell the voters the harsh but necessary truths about California governance and force real reforms down their throats.

Instead he uttered the same lies about state government and proposed the same nostrums as many of his predecessors: Californians are overtaxed and underserved, etc.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik21-2009may21,0,4354063.column

[ColbertWatcher]

1. There's no way The Great Aryan Hope would have said that.

If I recall, the hard truth was what gray Davis was saying and what he based his budget policies on and what the GOP ridiculed him for.

I just hope there are enough Californians who remember the GOP fought against many of Davis' proposals and remember that their Great Aryan Hope even tried to co-opted them.

[tiptoe]

2. Sch*zenegger conspired w Enron's Ken Lay to steal $9 Billion from CA. Public Political Scum #1 in CA

"Californians are overtaxed and underserved"...precisely...by it's high-heeled, pointy-nosed, steroid-freak, 5'10" grotesquely out-of-proportion, lying crook and vulgar fraud of a "public servant."

He dresses sharp but 'smells' like sh*t.

Don't be deflected by his "time to debate" legalization of marijuana PR ploy. Having damaged the world's 7th largest economy to the tune, ultimately, of $11 Billion with his secret, undisclosed, radical rightwing Texas-tOILet-trash hookup while exploiting his celebrity during CA's 2003 recall election campaign, he's an unmitigated a****** and needs be flushed from public service forever — preferably prosecuted — along with Cheney, Bush and the torture lawyers and war criminals.


Arnold's Enron Secret
By Greg Palast, AlterNet
Posted on October 5, 2003, Printed on May 20, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/16902/

It's not what Arnold Schwarzenegger did to the girls a decade back that should raise an eyebrow. According to a series of memoranda our office obtained today, it's his dalliance with the boys in a hotel room just two years ago that's the real scandal.

The wannabe governor has yet to deny that on May 17, 2001, at the Peninsula Hotel in Los Angeles, he had consensual political intercourse with Enron chieftain Kenneth Lay. Also frolicking with Arnold and Ken was convicted stock swindler Mike Milken.

Now, 34 pages of internal Enron memoranda** have just come through this reporter's fax machine that tell all about the tryst between Maria's husband and the corporate con men. It turns out that Schwarzenegger knowingly joined the hush-hush encounter as part of a campaign to sabotage a Davis-Bustamante plan to make Enron and other power pirates then ravaging California pay back the $9 billion in illicit profits they carried off.

Here's the story Arnold doesn't want you to hear. The biggest single threat to Ken Lay and the electricity lords is a private lawsuit filed last year under California's unique Civil Code provision 17200, the "Unfair Business Practices Act." This litigation, heading to trial now in Los Angeles, would make the power companies return the $9 billion they filched from California electricity and gas customers.

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**The Enron memos were discovered by the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, Los Angeles, www.ConsumerWatchdog.org.

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