Who’s Afraid of Sarah Palin? — “the Black House” — the Howard Dean Syndrome —...
It is panic in the streets just below here in the liberal corner of New England. Not since Neo’s mythic journey into the unconscious has a woman in a red dress caused such a glitch in the Matrix. In...
View ArticlePossible Gov. Candidate Newsom Posts 7.5 Hour Speech
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (D) will post Monday on YouTube his 7 1/2-hour State of the City address, a gimmick seen as part of his possible 2010 bid for governor. Newsom told the San Francisco...
View ArticleArnold is the God that Failed — Is California a Failed State? Do We Still...
It is becoming a pitiful end to an auspicious beginning. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governator, riding in on a white horse like Vishnu, come to awaken a new age. He loved California as George W. Bush...
View ArticleBoxer Leads Schwarzenneger in 2010 Senate Poll
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) leads Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) in a hypothetical matchup in California's 2010 Senate race, a poll released Thursday found. 49 percent of Californians said they preferred...
View ArticleA Year of Political Courage: Obama Needs Arnold
Zimbabwe is failing and so is New York. I read it in The New York Times. And so is the euro and the dollar too. And California is on the brink of breakage. We said it here first and now they are all...
View ArticleStars Galore In Four Seasons Lobby After Swearing-In
Ashton. Demi. Samuel L. Aretha. The lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown was a parade of stargazing Tuesday afternoon after President Obama's inauguration. As regular hotel guests flooded in...
View ArticleSchwarzenegger: We Have a 'Strong Ally' in Obama
President Obama won glowing praise this morning from California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) for directing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider its 2007 decision not to let...
View ArticleHot on The Hill right now
It's almost the weekend -- and time to catch up on the muy caliente headlines: Another Democratic congressional member from Illinois has called for Sen. Roland Burris to step down. J. Taylor Rushing...
View ArticlePoll: Boxer would terminate Ahnold
Here's a somewhat confusing Field Poll on Sen. Barbara Boxer's (D-Calif.) re-election prospects. On one hand, she smokes her potential challengers. On the other, a narrow plurality is not inclined to...
View ArticleCalif. sets special election dates to fill Solis seat
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) set the special election to fill the House seat vacated by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, as well as the primary that will almost surely determine the district's...
View ArticleIs Ahnold softening position on a Senate run?
You didn't really count him out, did you? After previously ruling it out, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) appears to be softening his rhetoric on a possible run for the Senate, the San...
View ArticleAhnold rules out Senate run
So much for those Senate rumors. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) said unequivocally on Wednesday that he will not run for the Senate in 2010. "I am not running for anything, so no one could...
View ArticleHouse Republican calls on Schwarzenegger to resign
A California Republican lawmaker called on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) to resign, citing a failure to seek regulatory waiver that could ease the area's water shortage. Schwarzenegger should resign...
View ArticleWhy small state governors are popular
At FiveThirtyEight, Andrew Gelman has an intriguing post analyzing the approval ratings of governors as a function of state population. Long story short: small-state governors typically have higher...
View ArticleGovernator vows significant cuts in services
Coming off Tuesday's defeat of most of the budget referendums he was pushing, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vowed to make significant budget cuts to try to balance the state's budget, the...
View ArticleSchwarzenegger endorses Kasich
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Sunday via Snapchat and at a rally."I want John Kasich to be the next nominee of the Republicans and also to be the next...
View ArticleIs TrumpCare the requiem for the GOP?
With every moment of enlightenment there come poisonous flowers, said Nathaniel Hawthorne, and we have seen it in every political and cultural moment.In the playful 1960s, celebrating their 50th...
View ArticleGuess who’s stumping for states' rights?
I proposed here in summer of 2015 that fledgling presidential candidate Donald Trump was a trickster “who churns the ages.”And that America was advancing to a new era of light and shadow driven by...
View ArticleSchwarzenegger: ‘It’s time that we wake up’ to threat of pollution
Arnold Schwarzenegger urged activists to “wake up” to the threat caused by pollution during a global climate summit in Germany on Sunday.“It’s time that we wake up. It’s time that we wake up and talk...
View ArticleSchwarzenegger backs candidate for Issa seat
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday threw his support behind Republican Rocky Chávez to replace outgoing Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) in the state’s 49th congressional...
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