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Arnold Schwarzenegger is an actor, whether he is in Hollywood or Sacramento.
"The key to understanding Der Arnold is that everything is a pose. From posing his steroid-pumped muscles before bodybuilding competitions to posing before a camera for an action movie to posing as a governor. Pose, pose, pose.
So, too, with his environmentalism. He’s posing before his peer group: rich leftists, from those in Hollywood and Silicon Valley in California to his Kennedy family back in exclusive, hyper-rich Marthas Vineyard.
So he signed the jobs-killing AB 32 into law. And he opposes Prop. 23, which would suspend AB 32 until unemployment dropped to 5.5% for a year. Pose, pose, pose."
At the same time he agrees to allow massive subsidies to a friend. "In August, the Schwarzenegger administration promised millions in subsidies that helped rescue Pacific Ethanol from bankruptcy. Part of the deal was that the firm, which uses corn to make the gasoline additive ethanol, would significantly reduce its carbon footprint within four years.
But a last-minute change to the statute allows the carbon reduction requirement to expire in two years, essentially letting Pacific Ethanol, and three smaller firms that qualify for the subsidy, off the hook."
The friend is Bill Jones, former Assembly leader and founder of Pacific Ethanol. Jones is a conservative, just ask him. Yet he has gotten Federal funds and State funds, now this subsidy.
Any wonder the Tea Party is angry at both political parties?
(disclosure: In 2004 I worked professionally for Bill Jones for Senate)
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"The key to understanding Der Arnold is that everything is a pose. From posing his steroid-pumped muscles before bodybuilding competitions to posing before a camera for an action movie to posing as a governor. Pose, pose, pose.
So, too, with his environmentalism. He’s posing before his peer group: rich leftists, from those in Hollywood and Silicon Valley in California to his Kennedy family back in exclusive, hyper-rich Marthas Vineyard.
So he signed the jobs-killing AB 32 into law. And he opposes Prop. 23, which would suspend AB 32 until unemployment dropped to 5.5% for a year. Pose, pose, pose."
At the same time he agrees to allow massive subsidies to a friend. "In August, the Schwarzenegger administration promised millions in subsidies that helped rescue Pacific Ethanol from bankruptcy. Part of the deal was that the firm, which uses corn to make the gasoline additive ethanol, would significantly reduce its carbon footprint within four years.
But a last-minute change to the statute allows the carbon reduction requirement to expire in two years, essentially letting Pacific Ethanol, and three smaller firms that qualify for the subsidy, off the hook."
The friend is Bill Jones, former Assembly leader and founder of Pacific Ethanol. Jones is a conservative, just ask him. Yet he has gotten Federal funds and State funds, now this subsidy.
Any wonder the Tea Party is angry at both political parties?
(disclosure: In 2004 I worked professionally for Bill Jones for Senate)
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