No wonder Arnold is slipping in the press and their "public opinion" polls. An article on OpinionJournal has highlighted it very nicely. He's raising teacher standards, cutting spending, and doing things that is going to have every democrat in a frenzy. Arnold is obviously not a member of the linguini-spined moderate republican sector, who only care about how they are percieved by the media. What we need is more Arnold's and fewer "girly-men" republicans. The girly men are, of course, led by McCain, that "Maverick" republican.
Some exerpts:
And then there is California's Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose 19-month career is easily the most visionary and strongest gubernatorial leadership performance in modern American history.
Within hours of taking office he undid Mr. Davis's tripling of the car tax, cutting taxes by about $2 billion. He slashed spending by about $6 billion in a first step to eliminate the state's $22 billion deficit. The current budget is balanced at a level $11 billion less than the projected baseline when he took office. In March 2004 the voters passed Proposition 58, the first Schwarzenegger ballot initiative, requiring a balanced budget, establishing a Rainy Day Fund to accumulate cash to meet future unexpected economic declines, and banning the use of bonds to finance future deficits.
But that was just the beginning. A week ago the governor called a special election for Nov. 8 to vote on three policy changes that the Democrat-controlled legislature has refused to consider: stronger state spending restraints, higher standards for public school teachers, and retired judges rather than legislators drawing legislative district boundaries.
What can we do but stand up and applaud?
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