If Arnold ask Bush* for help, and gets it, won't other States demand the

[LittleApple81]

same treatment?
I have seen several threads referring to Arnold getting help from Bush...who did not want to help Davis or other states before. Won't this stick out like a sore thumb?

[wryter2000]

1. One would certainly hope so

I don't want Bush* buying CA and getting away with it.

[roguevalley]

2. That would be the best counter to any plot to 'boost' California

under a rethug, thereby swaying public opinion.
Alaska could use help and so could all the others,
especially Oregon.

[okieinpain]

3. I would think so, but it's going to happen. probably under some

guise of fighting terrorism.

[random]

4. Doubt it...

take a look at Florida.

[Cha]

5. bush better be givin' New York "help" then if they want to

show their faces here in 2004!

It's gonna be bad enough for them as it is!

[foreigncorrespondent]

6. Well if Arnold asks for it...

...he will most likely get it. The fact is Bush* needs CA is 2004, so now he is going to have swoon the wonderful state to make up for all the disasterous shit he has pulled on the state since stealing office.

Of course if Bush* gives things to CA then the rest of the country is going to demand the same, but Bush* will most likely only work on those states he truly needs to pull in for next years election.

[Cha]

10. And look what happened in Pennsylvania when they started

pandering for votes with the tariff on the steal. The last I read..that was Backfiring on them.

[neuvocat]

7. Not enough money to go around.

Besides that, you'd be sure he'd piss off the other republican governors.

[htuttle]

8. The US government still owes Wisconsin a bundle...

...along with a lot of other states.

As far as I know, they still haven't paid out a lot of the matching funds and grants they are bound to by legislation. I think I remember our Governor Doyle saying it was nearly a billion dollars (or in that neighborhood) that Wisconsin was still waiting on.

If Bush gives a handout to California and not the other states who are still owed money, I guarantee you will see a lot of anger from other governors (whatever that's worth).

[poskonig]

9. Possible Backfire!

This could make Bush look like he really cares about California, as if California were special compared to other states.

I believe Democrats best counter such a Rovian trick by focusing on how Bush put the state on iggy for two and a half years.

[ShaneGR]

11. FACT: Arnold will get no pork money from Bush

In case anyone missed it, the Fed is bankrupt and Bush is having trouble getting another 87 billion for Iraq (Which will add to the 500 billion deficit already there). Bush simply does not have the power to just hand over money.

About 35 other states in the union are either in deficit, or have cut their programs dramatically.

[pstokely]

12. wouldn't Chimpco being more willing to bail out a swing state

they haven't bailed out any purple states

[kentuck]

13. Don't all monies appropriated have to go thru the House ?

But the House is Republican.....