{"id":14083,"date":"2012-05-07T19:31:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T23:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14083"},"modified":"2012-05-07T19:31:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T23:31:43","slug":"arnold-schwarzenegger-progressive-caveman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14083\/arnold-schwarzenegger-progressive-caveman\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold Schwarzenegger, Progressive Caveman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meditate on this <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/onpolitics\/post\/2012\/05\/arnold-schwarzenegger-republican-party-big-tent-\/1#.T6hQ9tl4OSo\" target=\"_blank\">excerpt from an op-ed<\/a> by former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;An inclusive party would welcome the party&#8217;s most conservative activists right alongside its most liberal activists,&#8221; the actor-turned-politician said. &#8220;There is room for those whose views, I think, make them sound like cavemen. And there is also room for us in the center, with views the traditionalists probably think make us sound like progressive softies.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As usual, Schwarzenegger is being too soft on himself.\u00a0 After promising to \u201cblow up the boxes\u201d in Sacramento and get tough on a legislature full of \u201cgirly men,\u201d Schwarzenegger passed <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2010\/may\/16\/local\/la-me-cap-20100517\" target=\"_blank\">seven laughably unbalanced budgets<\/a> that everyone acknowledged were premised on accounting gimmicks that are illegal in the private sector.\u00a0 He signed into law AB 32, the global warming regulatory scheme that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utsandiego.com\/news\/2009\/dec\/11\/green-fantasies-governor-ignores-anti-ab-32-eviden\/\" target=\"_blank\">burdens California\u2019s economy<\/a> without making a single degree of difference in the global temperature.\u00a0 He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/07\/21\/BAGGDK2TEN1.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">supported<\/a> a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/11\/24\/california-squirms-with-cirm-the-embryonic-stem-cell-boondoggle\/\" target=\"_blank\">multi-billion dollar bond initiative<\/a> to fund embryonic stem cell research despite the industry&#8217;s pivot toward adult stem cells as an ethically better, more scientifically promising avenue for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Ignoring the laws of fiscal gravity?\u00a0 Cursing the sun while your neighbors grow their economies?\u00a0 Defying science to serve a political ideology?\u00a0 Who\u2019s the <em>real<\/em> caveman in all this Mr. Schwarzenegger?<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Catalina Camia at USA Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditate on this excerpt from an op-ed by former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger: &#8220;An inclusive party would welcome the party&#8217;s most conservative activists right alongside its most liberal activists,&#8221; the actor-turned-politician said. &#8220;There is room for those whose views, I think, make them sound like cavemen. And there is also room for us in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[647,70,299,205],"class_list":["post-14083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arnold-schwarzenegger","tag-budget","tag-california","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14083"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14099,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions\/14099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}