Arnold Über Alles! Taking the State By
Storm
by Bruce Feirstein
Arnold, the first hundred days. Was it a dream, or a nightmare?
I’ll let you be the judge.
Oct. 8, 2003. Midnight. Crickets. The rustle of wind. Before all
the votes are even counted, before the winner has been
officially declared—bam!—a skylight
shatters in Sacramento, as Arnold and a half-dozen nameless
and faceless mercenaries in black camo-gear abseil on ropes
down into the state capitol amidst a shower of glass. Crouching
in the darkness—armed with little more than a veto and 2,000
rocket-propelled-grenade launchers—Arnold rises to his feet and declares: "This is
my future. This is my birthright. This is my destiny. Let’s govern!"
Oct. 12, 2003. Cell-phone service fails in Southern California—accompanied by a
crippling shortage of wicker—as 11 million agents, managers, lawyers and
entertainment moguls simultaneously send fruit baskets, congratulating the new
Governor on his victory. After conducting extensive interviews, Variety reports that
all 11 million insist they voted for Arnold—representing an astounding 279 percent
of his final vote count.
Oct. 22, 2003. Maria Shriver returns to work at NBC. She interviews herself.
Oct. 24, 2003. Inexplicably, whenever the Governor-elect leaves the statehouse, his
motorcade immediately morphs into a giant high-speed car-chase action sequence
involving gas tankers, fire engines and mobile cranes, resulting in an unprecedented
display of flying windshields and sheet metal, carnage and civic destruction. On the
bright side, crime, gas prices, traffic jams and the freeway-maintenance budget are
all reduced, as Californians stay home to watch live broadcasts of the daily
mayhem.
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