Sunday, December 11, 2005
Arnold's Missing The Big Picture
For Republicans, The Kindergarten Governor's recent appointment for Chief of Staff was a political sin of immense proportions. His latest spate of appointments, most announced on Friday -- A California Supreme Court Justice (for a CV for this appointment see this and this) and a couple of key administration jobs seem designed to try and "balance the slate" for that sin.
Not gonna work in this guy's mind. Arnold thinks he is being moderate when all he is being is foolish. Such divides in his team will only mean his team will fight with each other.
The strength of our republic is that it is supposed to bring about compromise, but we are not compromising on ideas anymore, we are just trying to work out power-sharing arrangments. I commented on this earlier over some recent Congressional deals. That's a big problem and Arnold is playing right into it.
In the end it's about the ideas, it's not about the parties or the power, at least as far as the vast majority of voters are concerned. Arnold does not need to find ways to get along -- he needs to find ways to implement his agenda, or at least the agenda he promised us when we voted for him.
See, power sharing is about those with the power. But in this nation the power is about those of us in the nation -- those that have the power are elected to use it for out benefit, or they will find themselves without it. That's what Arnold needs to be thinking about.
Not gonna work in this guy's mind. Arnold thinks he is being moderate when all he is being is foolish. Such divides in his team will only mean his team will fight with each other.
The strength of our republic is that it is supposed to bring about compromise, but we are not compromising on ideas anymore, we are just trying to work out power-sharing arrangments. I commented on this earlier over some recent Congressional deals. That's a big problem and Arnold is playing right into it.
In the end it's about the ideas, it's not about the parties or the power, at least as far as the vast majority of voters are concerned. Arnold does not need to find ways to get along -- he needs to find ways to implement his agenda, or at least the agenda he promised us when we voted for him.
See, power sharing is about those with the power. But in this nation the power is about those of us in the nation -- those that have the power are elected to use it for out benefit, or they will find themselves without it. That's what Arnold needs to be thinking about.
