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Props to the Governator for just coming right out and saying that the real reason Republicans deny Global Climate Change so hotly is that they’re beholden to big business.

Kilmeade: But here’s the thing, Governor: A lot of people, a lot of Republicans in particular don’t believe there is Global Warming, there is Climate Change. They don’t believe the green technology and we talk to a lot of them on an every day basis. You’re a Republican, what do you know that they don’t?

Schwarzenegger: Well, I think they know the reality. I think they’re just trying to protect business. And in the end, they’re hurting business. Because we’ve proven in California that you can do both, that you can protect the environment and protect business. Even though in 2003, when I ran and I said that, people didn’t believe it but then we started building the ‘Hydrogen Highway’ and passed the Green Building Initiative and the Million Solar Roof Initiative and the Ocean Action Plan and AB32 to make a commitment to roll back our greenhouse gas emissions and the low carbon fuel standards, all of those things that got world recognition, I think people realize now, ‘wait, this does not hurt our economy, this is actually a big plus’ because we’re creating jobs through green, clean technology.

This being Fox though, they had to end a rather lengthy interview on a more cheerful note, with Fox & Friends‘ Brian Kilmeade looking for some body-building tips. Arnold called him “without a doubt the most muscular television host,” whereupon Kilmeade positively swooned.

Addressing California’s 14 billion dollar deficit, Ahnold is a one-trick nightmare.

For everyone living in CA like myself, Governor Schwarzenegger’s State of the State earlier this year was reprehensible. You can see it here.

We now have no way out except to face our budget demons. It does not raise taxes, it cuts the increase in spending and it cuts that spending across the board. As governor, I of course see first hand that the consequences of cuts are not just dollars but people. I recently brought leaders and advocates of various communities into my office to tell them about what we face financially. I had to look them in their eyes and tell them. I mean talking about fiscal responsibility sounds so cold when you have a representative for AIDS patients or poor children or the elderly sitting across from you. It’s one of the worst things about being governor—yet, fiscal responsibility like compassion is a virtue because it allows the necessary programs in the first place.

Steve Lopez of the LA Times wrote a great piece about the Governor and said that we’re basically in the same situation that California was in when the Davis recall was instituted.

Only a year ago, Gov. Schwarzenegger was telling us we were in good shape financially, with no need for a rainy day fund. Now he says the wolf is at the door. He’s planning to lock the gates at 48 California state parks and beaches. And give get-out-of-jail-free cards to tens of thousands of prisoners statewide. And slash school budgets.

These and many other draconian horrors have been proposed by the governor who rose to power on three main recall promises: No more gaping budget holes. No more reckless borrowing. No more out-of-control fundraising and caving in to special interests. Is it time for Total Recall: The Sequel?

California is staring in the face of a $14.5 billion budget deficit and, lucky for us, the old Arnold Schwarzenegger is back.

I’m kidding. It’s 2004/05 all over again.

Our “post-partisan” governor has pushed forward a devastating, mean spirited, wholly unacceptable budget. See, he took the Grover Norquist pledge and said “I do not believe in tax increases”. Therefore, his solution to the deficit is to cut funding across the board. Plus he wants to tack on a few billion more dollars on the state’s credit card that he supposedly cut up years ago.

Schwarzenegger’s budget is Norquist’s wet dream. It would have absolutely catastrophic effects on California’s educational, health care, and parks systems, among other services. LA Times:

Yet his vision for the state is costly — and contradictory. Proposing that the state more than double the borrowing voters approved 14 months ago for public works, the governor compared himself to Franklin D. Roosevelt with the New Deal.

Bewildered lawmakers and activists said that reference was inconsistent with his administration’s bid to close nearly one of every five state parks.

“I don’t think it represents the governor’s values,” Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez (D-Los Angeles) said of the proposed budget, which is intended to close a $14.5-billion gap over the next 18 months.

(Read the rest of this story…)

Here we go—the good old bipartisan garbage. I can’t stand primary season.  Arnold got shamed by the Nurses and was forced to change his style of “governating” so why did Barack pick him?

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: “What (he’s) doing on climate change in California is very important and significant. There are things I don’t agree with him on, but he’s taken leadership on a very difficult issue and we haven’t seen that kind of leadership in Washington,” Obama said of the California governor

 Paul Rosenburg writes:

Here’s an article I wrote back in July, about how  Schwarzenegger fired the head of the California Air Resources Board for being too enthusiastic about fighting global warming–and then lied about it, claiming that the fired official had resigned.  I also refer to an executive order that, like a Bush signing statements, effectively undermined the law it was supposed to reinforce–the global warming law that Schwarzenegger is routinely hailed for.

And C&L’s good pal Julia Rosen has a fairly comprehensive look at the Terminater’s governing style.

Let me state up front that since moving to California two years ago, I have written thousands of blog posts on Arnold Schwarzenegger. This governor loves to say one thing and do another. His public statements rarely match up with his actions. I talk about Arnold’s governing philosophy in terms of software versions, since it switches all too often…read on

Mary Nichols was just hired to try and quiet the storm. Arnold’s stance on Global Warming must now be considered a con:

Her appointment follows the recent departure of two top board officials who each complained publicly that meddling by the Schwarzenegger administration on behalf of business interests limited their ability to draft effective regulations for curbing greenhouse gas emissions and improving air quality.

Nichols replaces Robert Sawyer, who says he was fired after pushing to implement more aggressive action to curb global warming than the administration supports.

Witherspoon said she and her staff were also pressured by the administration to ease a crackdown on heavy diesel construction equipment after industry representatives complained the draft regulations were too tough.

I hope the Hollywood community that supported his re-election are proud of themselves. Tools…Except for Warren Beatty, that is.