On “This Week,” an ABC Sunday news talk show, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was asked about the Obama administration’s economic stimulus program. He said, “… I find it interesting that you have a lot of Republicans running around and pushing back on the stimulus money and saying this doesn’t create any new jobs, and then they go out and they do the photo ops and they are posing with the big check and they say, isn’t this great?” What do you think of Schwarzenegger’s comments? Did he throw his own party under the bus?
I think that is how he keeps in shape — periodically throwing Republicans under the bus. He did it to us last year by supporting the largest tax increase in recent history. But as those of us who vigorously opposed those taxes and the federal government’s stimulus plan predicted, the tide is changing and people are angry. I am a Republican because I do not believe large government is the solution. Nor do I think that government should over regulate our private lives or inhibit our businesses’ ability to compete. I see this same type of attack in Sacramento daily. The go-to solution for liberals is to throw taxpayer money at the problem. Now the real problem is who is going to pay for it? Long after Schwarzenegger, President Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi are footnotes, our kids will be paying this off.
