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Arnold and The Failure of Politics in a Celebrity Age

All the signs show that Arnie is on his way to becoming the governor of the most populous state in the nation. What a disaster. We're about to have the wolf guarding the hen house.

Arnold says he is for Womens Rights, but, he won't allow his wife to wear pants and doesn't see anything wrong with assaulting women who happen to get into an elevator with him.

He also says he loves the environment, but he doesn't like the California EPA or the Coastal Commission. They get in the way of business and are wrong.

And Arnie has drunk Norquist's anti-tax kool-aid. He hates taxes and he says he will balance the budget by getting rid of wasteful spending. As someone who said he was going to "clean up" Sacramento, he has some pretty strangely corrupting friends.

For more reasons to worry about this election, read Fifty Reasons to Not Vote For Arnold.

Where is California headed? California has long been known to be the harbinger for the rest of the nation. So now, perhaps we will show the rest of the country what it is like to live in a state on its way to third world status with our own cult of the superhero leader. As Digby says: Jeebus.

Posted by Mary at October 3, 2003 11:14 AM | TrackBack