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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: laura_bush who wrote (451203)	9/1/2003 2:30:30 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I don't know why Arnold is republican, he is married to Maria Shriver after all. To me he seems like an independent. I don't know about the Cheney meetings, but Arnold made some overt statements about the impeachment that I appreciated (basically he was embarrassed to be a republican) and I like his social views so on the social views area, he is ok with me. That leaves fiscal matters. The problem we have in this state (I live in CA, do you? no right?)- is that the republicans went way overboard on the far right and all the outstanding republicans left the party. These were Tom Campbell and people like Peter Ueberroth. The fiscal republicans I mean, they were pushed out. That left the idealogues. So the result was a totally democratically controlled state beholden to special interests. Our state also has a proposition system where grass roots votes can get enacted and this has led to the most immature, biased, discriminatory tax policy in the country. Basically every time a vote comes up on taxes, the voters vote no, while at the same time voting for increased services. So we have a system with special interest controlled politics, plus a bunch of screwy voter referendums which are essentially "don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that guy behind the tree". We need real leadership from sacramento, not on stupid social issues like gay marriage but on imporant stuff like tax reform and bonds and how to avoid detault, and whoever can do that gets my vote. I don't know if Arnold is the man but I sure know that Bustamante, the former lieutenant governor, IS NOT. With him, its more of the same ala the Davis regime. Probably the biggest issue CA faces is the job loss and stock options tax revenue loss which is not returning. We will have to shut down some universities or tax people in some other way. In the 90s the robust jobs climate subsidized people like Warren Buffett who lives here in a 4 million $ house and pays 2K property taxes. We have lost those jobs, forever. Now what. This will be Arnolds problem.