California poised to get new governor

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/2003/06/16/national0701EDT0469.DTL

While many of you could care less about this. It looks like machine is set in motion and almost all of the signitures needed have been obtained to recall the Gov. of California. This is the idiot that while correctly accused all those energy companies of fraud and misdealings he went ahead and purchased 10 year future contracts based on energy prices so #ucking high becasue of fraud and misdealings. During his little energy deal making the Financial Controler of the State was left out of the picture (she had no idea what financial obligations our idiot Gov. was getting the state into).

I guess the biggest impact for you non-CA folk is that this could result in CA being less Democratically entrenched.

THIS IS SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And it looks like we might get the Terminator to run for the spot.

 

So that means... Arnie for Prez in, like, what.... 2016...

 

No, wait... Arnie can not become Prez....

 

Unless the prediction in the movie Demolition Man proves to be true.

 

Ummmmm....

I thought one could not be a naturalized citizen and become Prez. Might be wrong. Usually am....

 

Re: Ummmmm....

No George, you're right. You must be born in the US to be president. I was making a smartass reference to a Stallone movie where he wakes up in the future and Arnie actually is the president.

 

I remember one of the first thoughts I had in the Eighties. Ronald Reagan was President. I thought it was a new film category - comedy/nightmare.

I simply could not vote for the guy who had second billing in Bonzo Goes to Washington, nor could I vote for his opponents. I flipped the levers for the other idio - excuse me, people - running for other offices. Never for Prez in those 2 elections.

Just a thought: would Arnie saying Ill be back after a meeting with leaders from other countries be considered a threat or a promise

 

Maybe, but it would also be great to use for a re-election big as well.

Of course then the Demos could use:
Terminate the Terminator

 

why can't you wait until his term is up???

CA elected him after the Energy scandal...I don't see how the Governor is responsible for the power companies purchasing energy...thank Enron...

why don't you thank Bu$h for your economy going in the tank???
You also have a balanced budget law....what else is a governor to do but raise taxes??

the recall process was put into law because in the 1900's CA was run by the Southern Pacific RR, it was a provision which corrupt politicians can be booted out of office...

why us this just cause you don't agree with his politics???

do you think ISSA is any better....he's a crook....

 

Because he's no more responsible for it going in the tank than Clinton was for a good economy.

 

<<CA elected him after the Energy scandal...I don't see how the Governor is responsible for the power companies purchasing energy...thank Enron...>>

Correct, but Davis is the dumb shit that spend 10 billion dollars on futures contracts (he basically pre paid the state's electrical bill for the next to years) at inflated prices. Now, he is trying to get that money back, but of course it’s being slowed down by the legal process because he obligated the state by taking part in contractual futures transactions.

He also bought into these contracts with the very firms he said were defrauding California to begin with. So, had this economic genius done NOTHING the state would have $10,000,000,000 more in the coffers, and then he (Davis) could have said I TOLD YOU SO, and been a hero, and on top of that the state would not be tied up in expensive futures contracts. I think he tried to solve a huge problem himself in an attempt to strengthen his resume for a Presidential bid. Well, I don’t see that happening now

Naw, I think Davis is clearly capable of screwing up the state's financial whoas without the help of Bush.

<<why don't you thank Bu$h for your economy going in the tank??? You also have a balanced budget law....what else is a governor to do but raise taxes??>>

How did Bush screw it up? I think airplanes crashing into buildings, and corporate scandals designed during the Clinton administration and discovered during the Bush administration are a large root of the problem. I personally feel Bush ads a level of stability to the situation giving him. To the extent it is now clear when faced with violent instability the Untied States is willing to completely over run a country and raise the Stars and Stripes over the aggressors capital. That is a lot different than kind of hoping every one will just get along.

However, Bush did screw his opportunity to lessen the deficit. He should not have given the first tax cut, he should have used it to lessen the debt. Then he would have had the opportunity NOW to let the debt creep back up with less friction as he has now.

I also feel he screwed up his post war plans. The war ended too soon and the logistics were not in place soon enough for the rebuild. Also I feel it was a grave mistake to obliterate Sadam and Bin Ladin. Dead bodies were needed. Formal submission is needed by leaders to legitimize the victory. Otherwise you have a pissed off populous running around with guns as no one in their prior government who they feel represents their plight has formally surrendered.

A guy is less incline to go to war if he has a good living, a nice place to live, a pool in the back yard and a car in the garage, and a society stable enough where those things cannot be taken away from him.

<<why us this just cause you don't agree with his politics???>>

Plus the almost million other registered voters it seems are signing up to recall him.

<<do you think ISSA is any better....he's a crook>>

Who? Naw, Terminator dude will win. Issa is just the catalyst.

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/06/26/MN228328.DTL

more on the futures contracts

 

You think they are dead???

 

Yeap. They're as dead as Elvis, Jim Morrison and France as a world power.

 

Wasn't there a tape from bin Laden back in February?

 

not with a time stamp. i got a kennedy tape. want to bet me if he's still alive?

 

The Feb tape makes specific reference to the aggression against Iraq (CNN Excerpts ). The last time that the US had any inkling of bin Laden's whereabouts was in the caves in Tora Bora - long before the Iraq distraction. This implies that bin Laden survived the caves.