I was reading the SF Chron story on the Arnold tapes and this passage caught my eye:
A spokeswoman for Perata said the comments made in the tapes will not affect cordial relations and productive legislative action accomplished by the governor and the Senate leader.
"There’s nothing in those tapes that will prevent this year from being as productive as last year," said Alicia Trost.
That’s a real shame.
For a brief, shining moment, I hoped these examples of Gov. Schwarzenegger actually being authentic might throw a monkey wrench into the Schwarzeneggerian-Democratic "post-partisan" partnership to expand state government at the expense of Californians’ liberty and wealth.
After all, it’s no mystery what Democrats — and now our allegedly GOP Governor — mean when they drop terms like "being productive." In post-partisan parlance, "productivity" translates into creating new government programs and swelling existing ones, spending more of the peoples money and tranfering a greater share of the peoples’ wealth from their purse into the government’s.
So here’s hoping Don Perata and Fabian Nunez take the Governor’s comments extremely personally and precipitate a complete breakdown in their ability to cooperate in their planned expansion of government and diminution of liberty. If we’re lucky, yet-be-released tapes will contain offensive remarks by the Governor about other Democratic power legislators.