What You Get

This is what you get when you compromise with the Demorats.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday he will declare a "fiscal emergency" in January to give him and the Legislature more power to deal with the state's growing deficit.

Schwarzenegger made the announcement Friday after meeting with lawmakers and interest groups this week to tell them California's budget deficit is worse -- far worse -- than economists predicted just a few weeks ago.

The shortfall is not $10 billion, but more than $14 billion -- a 40 percent jump that would put it in orbit with some of the state's worst fiscal crisis, those who have met with him said.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected Fornicalia governor following the Gray Davis recall election of 2003 -- and I'll give credit where credit is due: the push for that recall election came primarily from talk show host Eric Hogue of then-KTKZ in Sacramento. Hogue, a former resident of Ohio, is now running for the 4th Assembly District in Placer County, Fornicalia -- having put his thoughts, deeds and actions where his mouth was. I cannot but admire him for that. Quite frankly, I'd vote for him in a second.

Demorat Gov. Gray Davis, the emptiest of empty suits, literally drove Fornicalia into the ground. His policies screwed up our entire power production and distribution system, sent us millions and millions and millions of dollars into debt. The People were completely fed up.

Schwarzenegger ran on the premise that he would REDUCE our government, and that he would REDUCE our deficit. In his first year, right off the bat, he immediately repealed Fornicalia's onerous and recent increase in the vehicle registration fee. He campaigned directly on this promise, and he delivered. He also prevented driver's licenses from being handed out to illegal immigrants. His first smackdown came when some very powerful state unions began to oppose his various initiatives -- including the HUGELY NEEDED re-drawing of legislative districts (which keeps Demorats IN POWER in this state).

Demorats acquired, through the potentially-affected unions involved, millions of dollars in order to defeat every last proposition Arnold managed to place on the very expensive ballot in 2005. Special interest groups spent hundreds of millions of dollars on gathering signatures and advertising for this election. And they essentially lied through their teeth on each and every ad. Arnold failed to strike back. He failed to counter their arguments. So with silence on his part, ignorant and naive voters shot down the entire special election. He would later comment that "no one could win if the opposition raised $160 million dollars to defeat you."

As I wrote on this post in 2005, the result of these propositions going down was:

-- Parents have no right to be notified before abortions can be performed on girls under 18; WRONG
-- Teacher tenure will continue to be 2 instead of 5 years; WRONG
-- Any Fornicalia union can continue to use members' dues for any political purpose against the wish of the individual member, who has no say; WRONG
-- There are no spending limits for the State of Fornicalia; we may continue to spend more than we receive in taxes from the taxpayers; WRONG
-- We like our gerrymandered districts in Fornicalia; it keeps those currently in power and gosh, why should we brook those pesky incumbents? WRONG
-- There should be no discount prescription drug program for the state (fine by me);
-- There should be no incentives paid by the state to prescription drug companies (fine by me);
-- We will not re-regulate our energy market (fine by me).

Following Arnold's Slapdown, he brooded and decided that it was time to allow the Demorat side of him to emerge.

First order of business following his Come To Jesus: the appointment of a Demorat, Susan Kennedy, as his Chief of Staff (against advice of his GOP strategists). Schwarzenegger scrambled toward the political middle, determined to build a so-called "winning legacy" with only a short time to go until the next gubernatorial election.

And now, whilst appeasing the bulk of his Demorat critics at the behest of the Left-leaning "progressive" Fornicalia media, Gov. Schwarzenegger has achieved the very same thing former Governor Gray Davis achieved: the complete and utter tanking of the state's budget.

The only difference now being that, as opposed to Davis, Schwarzenegger ADMITS IT.

The various Demorats, I'll wager, have called him oh-so-discreetly to say: "Shut the fuck up. Don't air our dirty laundry in public."

Which tells me: there is still a shred of decency left in Arnold. Not much. But a bit.

THE MORAL OF THE STORY:

When you lie down with snakes, you will get bitten.

Let this be a lesson to ALL of us: when we compromise our Conservative Principles, past and current history explains: nothing good will happen.

As far as I am concerned, it is True Conservatives vs. RINOs, the GOP and the Demorat party -- which encompasses "progressives," Leftists, Socialists.

My new BZ seal, at the top right of my blog, says it all (thanks Bushwack!).

BZ