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Arnold Care Watch: Lease the California State Lottery
The governor’s latest claim on painless gain was issued this week in the form of a revised scheme to bring health insurance to the estimated 6.7 million Californians who lack it. The cost of providing such coverage is estimated at $14 billion a year, and originally, Schwarzenegger proposed “shared responsibility” taxes on hospitals and doctors, a levy on employers and a fingers-crossed assumption that the federal government would pick up about a third of the tab.
The plan quickly became bogged down in a political swamp of interests. Everybody was for the plan in concept, as long as somebody else was paying for it. The hospital industry eventually signed on after being guaranteed in writing that it would get billions more dollars than it would pay in taxes, but doctors and most employers continued to balk, and so did anti-tax Republican legislators.
Didn’t Flap tell you that Arnold Care was a boondoggle from the start? And would NEVER be implemented.
Why?
Because it is the same with Hillary Care 1.0 and 2.0 it is REDISTRIBUTIONIST POLITICS.
There’s been a lot of talk in the Capitol about asking voters to raise taxes to pay for expanding health care. But this week, Schwarzenegger took a new tack by proposing to lease the state lottery to a private operator and devote lease payments to health care, thereby negating the need for taxes on doctors and softening the financial impact on employers.
Implicitly, Schwarzenegger is promising that nobody would be taxed that doesn’t want to be taxed while many billions of dollars in new health care benefits will flow to the uninsured poor and medical providers — all gain and no pain.
The fiscal flaw is self-evident: If the lottery can be leased and the state can realize a $2 billion revenue gain, shouldn’t that money be used to balance a deficit-ridden state budget before launching new spending schemes? Or does Schwarzenegger intend to dump the mess on the next governor while he morphs into a senator-elect and/or self-appointed guru of global warming — all gain for him without any political pain?
Flap’s bet is that the Demcorats will NOT let Arnold’s plan out of the legislature because of the tax increases that would need to be approved by California taxpayers at the November 2008 Presidential election. Arnold’s plan is similar to Hillary’s and she doesn’t want to run on a tax increase next year.
Perhaps the Governor can now concentrate on reducing California’s budget deficit.
Don’t count on it.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Arnold for United States Senate in 2010
Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) walks together with the U.S. delegation during the opening ceremony for the Special Olympics in Shanghai October 2, 2007.
Dan Walters makes the most recent case although Flap mentioned it before.
The answer is YES. The Governator WILL challenge Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer.
Arnold does NOT have the patience to wait for Senator Dianne Feinstein to retire in 2012.
The Governator will paint the radically LEFT Boxer as a post-partisan obstruction to national consensus and will win going away – after a costly and dirty media campaign.
Count on it……..
Update:
Read Arnie Steinberg’s comments on Arnold’s legacy as California Governor here.
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Former California Governor Pete Wilson to Endorse Rudy Giuliani for President Tomorrow
Former California Governor Gray Davis, right, speaks to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as former Governor Pete Wilson, left, looks on, during a news conference Thursday Aug. 23, 2007 in Los Angeles. The three along with members of the Voices of Reform Coalition including Common Cause and League of Women Voters met to discuss ways promote a fundamental change in the way political boundaries are drawn to insure fairness and transparency in elections.
Ex-governor Pete Wilson to endorse Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani expects a plum endorsement this week from one of California’s leading Republicans, former governor Pete Wilson.
The Republican presidential candidate and former New York mayor planned to announce Wilson’s support at a news conference Thursday in Santa Monica, according to several people with knowledge of the endorsement. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Flap is not surprised by this endorsement since both Mayors have similar social views with strong national defense credentials.
Will this be enough of an incentive for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to endorse Rudy?
Remember Schwarzenegger has a goodly number of former Wilson staffers working for him.
Flap thinks it is unlikely that the Governator will this early endorse the Mayor. But, it is possible after January 2008 if Rudy continues to poll well in California.
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Arnold Care Vs. Hillary Care 2.0: Arnold Care Covers Illegal Aliens
Senator Clinton’s announcement that her “universal” health care plan will not cover illegal aliens puts her at odds with Governor Schwarzenegger of California on that issue, as well as some of her most prominent backers in the Hispanic community.
“Illegal immigrants would not be covered,” Mrs. Clinton, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, said yesterday on ABC’s “This Week” program. “I will continue to have a safety net, which I think is in the best traditions of our country and, also, for public health reasons, absolutely necessary. But we did not cover them in ’93–’94, and my plan does not cover them now.”
This is WHY California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan will fail at either the polls or via a later referendum. California voters do not KNOW that they will be asked to vote themselves a hefty tax increase to fund more health care for illegal aliens.
And, why Hillary Care 2.0 is ill-conceived and nothing but a PANDER.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: California State Budget in Deficit as Much as $10 Billion
While answering questions Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger tells reporters that he would veto a gay marriage bill approved by the legislature, at a Capitol news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Sept. 17, 2007.
Didn’t Californians recall Democrat Governor Gray Davis because of fiscal irresponsibility?
And didn’t Arnold promise to fix the state’s poorly managed finances?
Right on both.
If the California budget is this out of balance look for the quick end of the Governator’s short political career.
Update:
Looks like Arnold’s state planners cannot balance his health care proposal either. What a mistake Californians made with Schwarzenegger.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Hillary Care 2.0
John Fund from the Wall Street Journal has the story with HillaryCare Flops in California.
Hillary Clinton is patting herself on the back for proposing a health-care plan that is much more politically astute than her 1993 Rube Goldberg effort. She told an audience in New York this week: “I think I have successfully thought through all of the objections and pre-empted them.”
She may want to think again. Last January, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed an eerily similar plan using the same rhetoric and even the same slogan adopted by Mrs. Clinton to describe hers: “Shared Responsibility.”
That’s no coincidence. Both ArnoldCare and HillaryCare 2.0 are the product of the same advisers. But despite all of its clever political compromises, ArnoldCare is bogged down in trench warfare in California’s liberal Democratic Legislature. If anything passes, it will likely be only a shell of a bill without any financing component. Legislators will hope voters approve a general tax increase to pay for it in November 2008.
Does Arnold REALLY think he can sell a TAX INCREASE to Californians to pay for illegal alien health care?
If anything, the Governator may be helping put California in play for Rudy Giuliani by stimulating an anti-tax turnout for November 2008.
Flap says bring it on Hillary – I mean Arnold.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: John Fund – Governor Moonbeam II
Billionaire Eli Broad, left, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa share a laugh during a news conference Monday, Sept. 10, 2007, at University of California, Los Angeles Biomedical Sciences Research Building in Los Angeles. Broad donated 20 million dollars to UCLA for stem cell research.
Governor Moonbeam II
California Republicans met at their convention near Palm Springs this weekend and heard two starkly different messages. Their own “post-partisan” governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, called on them to embrace the fight against global warming, support huge tax increases required by his universal health care plan and otherwise move to the center. Otherwise, he warned, the GOP would be “relegated to the margins of California’s political life.”
The governor’s message was received with tepid applause, with some delegates sitting on their hands. The atmosphere dramatically changed only minutes later when another convention guest, conservative Texas Gov. Rick Perry, strode to the podium. Mr. Perry, a former Democrat, delivered what the San Francisco Chronicle called “an incendiary address deriding Schwarzenegger-style moderation.” He assailed California’s “bankrupt, liberal political philosophy” and, without mentioning his fellow governor’s name, made it clear he included Mr. Schwarzenegger in that indictment. “It’s a sad, sad state of affairs when liberals campaign like Republicans to get elected, and Republicans govern like liberals to be loved,” he bellowed, leading the crowd of 400 delegates to give him a standing ovation.
Jon Fleischman, publisher of Flashreport, a popular conservative Web site, said the crowd’s unfavorable reaction was understandable because Gov. Schwarzenegger had come “into a Republican convention and talked about how the success plan for Republicans is to be more like Democrats.” The governor’s aides snapped back that their boss still has the approval of over 80% of Republicans in opinion polls, and no conservative Republican currently holds statewide office.
Of course, the governor’s strategy only makes sense if it leads to good governance. In the case of his health care plan, not a single state legislator of either party is willing to introduce it — Democrats want something even more radical and Republicans believe the plan is unconstitutional and loaded with higher taxes. The former action movie star may be basking in laudatory news coverage for his “third way” approach to governing, but on his signature policy issue he’s so far laying a goose egg.
— John Fund**********
And unless the California GOP recruits Condi Rice to run for Governor in 2010, Californians may receive Governor Moonbeam III in a repeat of Jerry Brown, the original Governor Moonbeam.
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Texas GOP Governor Rick Perry CALLS OUT California GOP Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the California Republican Party convention in Indian Wells, Calif., Friday, Sept. 7, 2007.
In what is the QUOTE OF THE WEEKEND at the California Republican Party Convention, Texas Governor Rick Perry “CALLS OUT” California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger:
“It’s a sad, sad state of affairs when liberals campaign like Republicans to get elected, and Republicans govern like liberals to be loved…”
Perry received whoops and repeated standing ovations while Schwarzenegger speaking earlier received a “polite” reception.
And Arnold thinks he will have an easy time receiving the GOP nomination for United States Senate in 2010?
Stay tuned…….
From left, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist chat with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger following his remarks at the California Republican Party convention in Indian Wells, Calif., Friday, Sept. 7, 2007.
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California health overhaul may go to voters
And Arnold thinks his “POST-PARTISAN” or the Democrat Socialized Universal health care plan with an accompanying tax increase has a chance of passage?
Flap will be laughing all the way to the ballot box.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: California GOP Has Lost the Middle
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks at the California Republican Party convention in Indian Wells, Calif., Friday, Sept. 7, 2007.
Addressing Republican activists and volunteers tonight in Indian Wells. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger exhorted his party to regain the political center:
Our party has lost the middle, and we will not regain true political power in California until we get it back. I am of the Reagan view that we should not go off the cliff with flags flying. I did that in 2005.
In 1967, when Ronald Reagan spoke to the California Republican Assembly, he said:
“We cannot become a narrow sectarian party in which all must swear allegiance to prescribed commandments. Such a party can be highly disciplined, but it does not win elections. This kind of party soon disappears in a blaze of glorious defeat.”
What the Governor forgets is that a political party is more than just winning a majority of races in each election cycle . It is governing and leading government with a set of ideological principles. Without a platform a political party is meaningless.
A Governor without principles or one who turns his back on his party is IRRELEVANT.
Political parties lead the public/voters toward their ideological goals. The Governor is mistaken if he thinks it is the other way around.
The California Republican Party has lost membership, elections and its organization is in disarray. But, where is the Governor?
In January, remember his post-partisan speech?
This is leadership?
Now, does Arnold propose that the California GOP poll its way into the political center, abandon its principles so HE can be elected to the United States Senate over Democrat Barbara Boxer?
Flap thinks not…….
Flap will reprint the entire text of the Governor’s speech:
Good evening. I’m happy to be with my fellow Republicans. I have so many people I want to thank tonight.
I want to thank Ron, of course, for all the great work he does for our party.
I want to thank Mike Villines and Dick Ackerman for their leadership. Especially on the recent budget. For the fourth year in a row ever since the recall we have not raised taxes on Californians. The new budget contains less than a one percent rise in spending. The Federal Government should do so well.
And, of course, I want to thank the thousands of volunteers who make our party possible.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is not going to be the typical convention address. I didn’t come with a bunch of applause lines. Instead, I came with some concerns about our party…and some hopes. And there is no better place to raise them than at this convention.
The people in this room love the Republican Party or you would not be here. Since I know you want our party to flourish, this allows me to speak frankly about how we can make it stronger…how we can ensure it is not relegated to the margins of California’s political life.
I know there are some who think, “What does Arnold know about Republicans? He’s not a real Republican.”
I have been a Republican since Nixon. I have been a Republican in spite of years of debates with Maria, the entire Shriver clan and all the Kennedy’s up at Hyannis Port. Believe me, it would have been far easier to abandon my Republican identity years ago.
But being a Republican is important to me. This party is important to me. I am proud to be a member of the party of Abraham Lincoln, who righted the greatest moral injustice in this nation’s history…the party of Teddy Roosevelt, the enthusiastic reformer and conservationist…I am proud to be a member of the party of Ronald Reagan, the pragmatic conservative who reached out and captured the political center, winning 49 of 50 states in 1984.
Where is the party today?
In California, as you know…our party is losing numbers. An astonishing 30 of the 32 Republican Assembly districts lost registered Republicans this year. Since 2005, we’ve lost 370,000 registered Republicans statewide. In just the last eight months, our numbers have declined by 120,000.
In movie terms, we are dying at the box office. We are not filling the seats.
Now, while the number of California Republicans has been declining, the number of independents has been growing. They may well outnumber both political parties in just 20 years.
So, who are these people? According to the Public Policy Institute, 70 percent of independents own their own homes. Most are graduates with incomes of more than $60,000. They are younger and more likely to be employed than members of either major party. They describe themselves as moderates. They often hold conservative views on fiscal policy and law-and-order issues, while taking more liberal stands on social and environmental issues. And they can be reached. They voted for me, 59 to 33 percent, over my opponent last year.
The real opportunity for Republicans is that independents generally agree with our core principles. Like us, they believe in limited government that is not wasteful. They believe taxes should be as low as possible, because the more you give government the more it will spend. They believe in individual freedom and the responsibility that goes with that freedom. They believe in the importance of public safety. And they believe that economic prosperity comes from the energy of the marketplace, not from the heavy hand of the state.
I want to make the Republican Party welcoming to these independents.
And the reason I mention this is because there were some Republicans who had proposed that we should not allow independents to vote in Republican primaries.What kind of sense would that make?
The Democrats have said they welcome independents to vote in their primaries. Why wouldn’t we welcome them, too? Research shows that the party you vote for in the primary is usually the party you vote for in the general election.
The goal of any political party is to win elections, to become a majority and to advance its ideals. How do we succeed at that? By including, not excluding. By being open to new ideas, not rejecting them out of hand. By expanding into the center, not falling back upon ourselves into a smaller and smaller corner.
Our party has lost the middle, and we will not regain true political power in California until we get it back. I am of the Reagan view that we should not go off the cliff with flags flying. I did that in 2005.
In 1967, when Ronald Reagan spoke to the California Republican Assembly, he said:
“We cannot become a narrow sectarian party in which all must swear allegiance to prescribed commandments. Such a party can be highly disciplined, but it does not win elections. This kind of party soon disappears in a blaze of glorious defeat.”
In business if you lose market share, you do something to about it. But I wonder if we’ve been so beaten down by our minority status that we’ve developed a bunker mentality? I wonder if we’ve come to believe that our only remaining power is to say no?
This very savvy audience understands that saying no is not the basis for a healthy political party. We need to address the issues that even registered Republicans are urging us to address.
According to the polls, nearly three-quarters of our own party support the global warming bill that I signed last year. They want this party to do something more about climate change than simply doubt it. If it is the policy of the Republican Party to ignore the great majority of the world’s scientists…to ignore the views of 80 percent of the young people who believe the same…then that party is at odds with the future. The Republican Party needs once again to be the party of Teddy Roosevelt conservationists.
The surveys show that a majority of our own party also wants us to work for comprehensive health care, not stand in its way. My proposal is not a European socialist plan. It’s not a Canadian single payer plan that is driving Canadians across our border for health care. My plan is a good faith attempt at a market-based solution. Never in history has medicine ever been able to make such a difference in peoples’ lives. And we will be on the losing end of history unless we realize that health care must be addressed.
A majority of our own party supported our transportation and flood control bonds that were on the ballot last year. Yes, it is expensive. But we cannot allow our levees to break as in New Orleans or our bridges to collapse as in Minneapolis.
We are the party of President Eisenhower, the moderate military man who understood the need for logistics and infrastructure and created the Interstate Highway System–the largest public works project in American history. The majority of Republicans understand the need for investment. I believe we should be listening to the majority of our party.
If our party doesn’t address the needs of the people-the needs of Republicans themselves – the voters, registered Republicans included, will look elsewhere for their political affiliation.
The majority of Republicans prefer progress with messy compromise over defeat with pristine principles. Compromise is part of politics. And it is especially part of politics if you are the minority party.
California Republicans do not have to be the political equivalent of the Spartans at Thermopolae. We do not have to defend the pass alone. Defeat does not have to be our future.
A large body of reinforcements is right behind us. It is called the middle, the center. They are independents. They are Reagan Democrats. They are disenchanted Republicans.
We do not have to give up who we are for them to come to our aid. They already believe much of what we believe. But they must be allowed to believe other things, too – things that perhaps not all of us agree with. That is fine.
The road to our comeback is clear. The California Republican Party should be a right-of-center party that occupies the broad middle of California. That is a lush, green, abandoned political space. It can be ours.
And we have accomplished so much together these past 3 ½ years.
* We brought the economy back.
* We reformed workers comp.
* We created nearly a million new jobs.
* We eliminated the operating deficit.* We passed the biggest prison construction program in our history.
* We protected 3 Strikes.
* We passed Jessica’s Law.
And much more.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me close with this. When I was 21 years old, I lost my first American bodybuilding competition, in Miami, which I thought for sure I would win. I had already won two Mr. Universe titles in Europe.
When I didn’t win, I couldn’t believe it. I was devastated. I had let people down. It kept going through my head, “I’m away from home, in this strange city, in America, and I’m a loser.” I cried all night long. I vowed to myself I would work as hard as I could to be strong and I would not be beaten again.
My fellow Republicans, I pledge to you that I will work hard to make the Republican Party strong. But I cannot do it alone. For the sake of California and its people, I ask you to join me.
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Flap will have more tomorrow and in subsequent posts on why the California GOP made one of its worst mistakes in recalling Democrat Governor Gray Davis and replacing him with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The California GOP has not lost the middle, Governor. You, sir, in your quest for popularity and short-term electoral gains have lost your governing principles and lost touch with mainstream GOP values.
Maybe it is time for you to make the switch to the Democrat Party? Or better yet become a post-partisan INDEPENDENT.
From left, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist chat with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger following his remarks at the California Republican Party convention in Indian Wells, Calif., Friday, Sept. 7, 2007.
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