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The Spork
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In a way I am both glad I don't live there and kind of wish I did.
A car thief turned car-alarm salesman turned legislator (which puts him back about two notches below a car-theif on the ethincal scale) bankrolls the recall of guy who an increasingly sheep-ified public is willing to scapegoat for the State of California's rather dire economic straits.
Regardless of whatever personal or political feelings one might have about Gray Davis, it's a pretty low and cheap tactic to try and pin California's economic crisis on him.
The State's business composition was heavily geared toward the IT sector in recent years, and unless Issa and the Republicans are trying to pin the dot-com depression and it's fallout on Davis, then that's one factor where force_majeure prevailed and he was just the poor bastard who happened to be driving the bus when the wheels came off of it.
Second, the usual disingenuous republican horseshit ignores that another big hit the California economy took was related to the State's energy problem of a couple of years ago which was helped along by a generous reaming to the tune of a few billion dollars from the infamously defunct energy trading firm, Enron. (Someone needs to see if there Dubya and Dick Cheney don't both have a nice blue outfit covered with Ken Lay's DNA, seriously, some 300 items of correspondence between Enron executives and either the President or his handlers and we're supposed to believe that he had no inappropriate relations with that company? puh-leeze, and you have to wonder why Cheney refuses to go public with just how much corporate cock he's been slurping to the point where another Federal agency is suing to try and get access to his records.)
Then there's the candidates, some 250 at last check, of whom The fucking Terminator is the ostensible front runner.
Now, being a fan of a good popcorn movie, I think Arnold Schwarzenegger fills that role as well as anybody (Terminator 3 was a shitload better than it had any right to be and actually managed to be thought-provoking in an oddly philisophical and sci-fi geek sort of way). Christ knows, anyone who's seen anything Reagan acted in knows that Schwarzenegger can actually act circles around ol' cowboy Ronnie, but the man still has the makings of a political disaster even if he isn't entirely the baby of the worst sort of wing-nuts in the republican party, it's one thing to run an image based business based on one's own career and livelihood as an actor, it's quite another to try and govern one of the largest states in the US and there is still the tricky question of whether or not he will repudiate his ties to former President of Austria, Kurt Waldheim based on evidence that Waldheim was a Nazi during WWII and participated in Wermacht sponsored atrocities.
Also, of course, i would like to see if the scumbags at FAUX News get off their phony high-horse about actors and politics now that it's a republican actor in the political arena (I'm talking to you, Bill O-f'n-Reilly
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More Spork for you
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Additionally, if I was a California voter, I think i would be hard-pressed not to vote for Gallagher
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Arwyn
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I agree entirely, but my vote (although it will never count as I'm in Iowa) goes to Larry Flint... no one has come up with a better slogan than "a smut peddler who cares" and you're gonna be hard pressed to find one.
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True, but if i had said Larry Flynt everyone would have just thought i was being a perv (which i am, but why confuse the issue?)
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kss
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Don't forget Gary Coleman is on the ballot now. Tough split between him and Gallagher. I've never seen Gary handle a watermelon, but I think leadership starts with the ability to say "wachootalkingabout?"
Seriously, though. There's talk of voting for Schwarzenegger because he's "fresh" and "not from Sacramento". It scares the piss out of me that someone who thought a sequel to Kindergarten Cop was a good idea would be in charge of the 5th largest economy in the world. Then again, Kindergarten Cop probably made money, and that might be the sort of business acumen this state needs.
Also interesting to note that, since Schwarzenegger picked up speed, Daryl Issa has taken his ball and gone home. After going millions in the hole to get this recall started, Issa dropped out of the running. There's rumors that the Bush administration influenced Issa to get out of The Terminator's way, but of course there's no proving that. Still, Rep. David Dreier, the co-chaired the California efforts of G.W.'s campaign, admits to calling Issa the night before he dropped out.
In a time of budget crisis, the Republicans fuel a recall. Of course, none of the counties have budget for this, and at 66 million and rising, that's a lot of benefits the people of California are going to miss out on. Never mind that irony, because they know they can capitalize on unrest and the idiosyncrasies of the recall procedure to sneak someone in. Then lean on Issa to do the dirty work, and test the water. He’s been connected to the Bush administration for years, and friends are usually rewarded, Issas covered, for sure. You’ll see him get huge backing in his next election, or some random job in the next administration. Anyway, Issa gets things started. Then, when the door is open, they pull the car-thief off the ballot, and get behind a pop culture icon. This is in the state with the largest population and most likely to provide stout opposition to G.W.'s re-election bid? Oh, and Issa’s recall counselor is Ben Ginsberg, the lawyer behind the Bush effort in the Florida courts three years ago. Hmmm. Nothing to see here, folks, move along.
What about Arnies platform? So far, he's given us comments about "we will have a good plan to face the tough problems". Great, good to know you've thought this all through. Hopefully the state will do better than Planet Hollywood. Incidentally, that was another business venture funded from behind the scenes, but using celebrity hype to try and forward it’s agenda. We do know that Arnie only votes about 1/2 the time, although he did manage to vote for prop 187, the un-constitutional legislation aimed at cutting aid to illegal immigrants. I guess we'll see what substance comes out, maybe after the T3 publicity stops helping.
When you think about it, this whole things is a not much of a surprise. Politics in this country have been a joke for a while. If your going to have a puppet dancing to the tune of forces behind the scenes, what better choice that a cyborg set back in time to save humanity?
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ferret
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lol, stupid grey Davis wants his name to be put on the ballot for re-election. i don't even need to comment on how totally rediculous that is.
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The Spork
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Interesting side note: Apparently Schwarzenegger wants to hire Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway) as a financial consultant for the state which, considering that Buffett is a billionaire (and a Democrat, to boot) whose company's stock is the most enduringly high-priced (even Buffett says "over-valued") on the market, there may be some brainpower at work within that skull of Arnie's after all
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karl the weed
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has anybody seen the daily show recently?
lol
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oldephebe
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m'bad spork, i mispoke..i will assiduously note the nominative distinction..re:your post to messianic complex
again:m'bad man
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The Spork
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No Prob.
Thank you.
ALthough i know retract the earlier Brainpower remark based on a number of various News Bits I've seen since the recall election took place.
California Uber Alles
(Jello is a prophet)
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