Schwarzenegger Squashes Rumors Of Ditching GOP

[villager]

Schwarzenegger Squashes Rumors Of Ditching GOP

Hank Plante
Reporting

(CBS 5) SACRAMENTO The hot buzz around the state capital is that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may abandon the Republican party. But Schwarzenegger addressed the rumors Wednesday after CBS 5 pressed him for an answer at an afternoon press conference. Pressure on the governor to switch parties is coming not from Democrats but from his fellow Republicans, who are upset with his centrist agenda.

"They're encouraging him to consider becoming an independent and de-register from the Republican party," said Corey Cook, a political science professor at the University of San Francisco. "I think there's a possibility that people are actually taking bets on whether the governor might actually decide to become an independent."

There's no question that many fellow Republicans are upset with Schwarzenegger over his move to the center, and, some say, to the left.

"He's about ready to depart from the Republican agenda on taxes with his health care initiative," said state assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine. "It upsets me greatly."

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http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_010215953.html

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

1. Repubs ALWAYS Stick Together

Lieberman, Zel Miller, they may leave the Democratic Party, but the repubs never crumble.

They just LIE, CHEAT, DECEIVE, RIDICULE, INSULT, ETC.

[LynneSin]

2. Last I checked Lieberman and Miller are STILL democrats

Jeffords was the last major one to defect and he is a republican

[skipos]

3. Zell switched last November. nt

[LynneSin]

11. I stand corrected but since Zell is pretty much retired - who cares

:shrug:

That's like Bill Buckner telling us he has played error free baseball in the senior leagues. Who cares what he's doing now because we'll always remember him as the guy who screwed up that easy out and cost Red Sox the world series.

When Jeffords defected, Miller did not and we got the majority

[jamesinca]

17. but who cares about the Buckner series

the four games against the Yankees then the series in '04. Stuff of legend!!!!! The whole team should be enshrined in the Hall of Fame just for pulling that supposed impossible off.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

4. Lieberman Is Threatening

Says if he doesn't like the Democratic caucusing, he may decide to switch.

I'm guessing that he won't much like the Democratic view on this latest escalation plan.

[villager]

5. but he's part of the Chimp's new "bipartisan" committee!

n/t

[LynneSin]

7. Lieberman is not switching, we're willing him to switch

From what I've read he's happy with the way things are setup. He knows he differs from the democrats when it comes to the war, but if you look at his OVERALL voting record he's more liberal than you think. Lieberman ain't going nowhere and that's ok with me.

[rox63]

6. Lieberman is no longer a Democrat

He is officially an independent. He caucuses with the Dems for now. But he is not a real Dem.

[LynneSin]

9. He's a democrat as far as I'm concerned

DC Dems didn't kick him out of the party - we did. And as along as he caucuses with us and gives us the majority I'll bite my tongue for now.

You think Bush would be scared shitless like that last night if he didn't have some control of congress. The guy is in deep shit and you can thank your lucky stars that Lieberman is still with us.

[jamesinca]

19. Bush may be scared , but if Lamont had won

and he did not have a warmonger from the independent democrat party of Lieberman, he would truly be screwed. After Joe did not pick up the party endorsement, then lost the party primary, then started slipping bad in the polls for the general election, he changed his tune. I watched a press conference of him and he said: nobody wants this war to end more than I do! Now that he is in office, he is back to the line that cost him the primary and almost the general election (50-40-10%) More troops, pro war Joe. That one issue cost him. It was not his stance on smoking in public buildings, it was his view of the war in Iraq that about lost the election for him. So he told the lie that he needed to tell and got back into office. He is not representing the views of the people of CN when he is being pro war Joe. If he is not representing their views, what is he doing? I don't like him and I don't trust him. If he was not such an asshole, he would not have to blackmail the Dems by making the comment that he is looking at all of his options/choices for what party he wants to be a part of.

[liberalpragmatist]

10. No, technically he is still a registered Democrat

Not saying I like this status. But "officially" he IS a Democrat, whether he acts that way or not.

[LynneSin]

13. People at DU have no clue the enomority behind Lieberman being a democrat

The 100 hours that Pelosi is working on would mean SHIT if republicans had the senate.

We should thank Lieberman everyday for staying in the party. You don't have to like him but thank him for staying (and Johnson for surviving that scare). If we only had the house we would not have the upper hand that we have now and trust me, I'm loving it!

[G Hawes]

18. "People at DU have no clue ..."

Good thing you're here to give us "people at DU" a clue, then. Thanks. I wouldn't have had a clue otherwise, and I'm sure the "people at DU" will all be eternally grateful for your clue-giving.

[LeftishBrit]

8. I suppose Cheney will start shrieking now...

about 'extremists' 'purging' their own party members, and driving them out.


After all:


'Pressure on the governor to switch parties is coming not from Democrats but from his fellow Republicans, who are upset with his centrist agenda.

"They're encouraging him to consider becoming an independent and de-register from the Republican party," said Corey Cook, a political science professor at the University of San Francisco'.



Oh, but of course it doesn't count when Republicans do it.

[villager]

12. exactly. That seems to be the crux

the California GOPpers want to "purify" their party...

[BushOut06]

14. Repugs probably thought they were voting for a Nazi

They probably expected him to start rounding up illegal brown-skinned folks and putting them in detention camps, and to build a wall along the Cali-Mexican border. They thought they were voting for the movie actor, not the person himself.

He's still a repug asshole, just not as repug as the repugs like.

[YOY]

15. IT'S NOT A RUMAH!!!

Sorry I just had to...

[pinniped]

16. He's a POS turd that claims to be green and wears a green tie,....

while proposing two new dams be built.

This MOFO also proposed to raise tuition for UC and CSU students.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/11/BAGGSNGMLP1.DTL&hw=tuition&sn=001&sc=1000