October 17, 2007

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"... To the Members of the California State Assembly:

 

      I am signing Assembly Bill 1471.

 

      While I appreciate and understand that this technology is not without

      limitations, I am signing this bill to provide law enforcement with an

      additional tool for solving crimes committed with semi-automatic

      handguns in California...."

 

              - Signing Message issued by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on

                October 13, 2007.

 

    

 

To All,

     Hey Arnold, who the heck is giving you advice up there in Sacramento,

John McCain?-

 

 Not Smarter Than a Fifth Grader:       

     If one were to go up to a room full of 11 year olds in Marin or Contra Costa County, and ask them what the odds were that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger could take away environmentalist and gun-ban votes away from Senator Barbara Boxer in the 2010 Election, even given his recent signing of AB 1471 and AB 821, what does one think that the answer would be?

 

    Given the political indoctrination liberals verse their kids in, they would chorus "...Fat Chance!!..." at the mere thought of Way-Lefties defecting into the arms of any Senate candidate without the orthodoxy, seniority and majority party status that the diminutive Senator Babs currently commands.

 

     It thus remains to be explained to an incredulous portion of Arnold's former base (not to mention pleasantly surprised reporters from some of the state's major newspapers) as to how Arnold's staffers sold him on the idea that catering to the Extreme Left of the Democrat Party would somehow put him uppermost in their (bleeding) hearts and minds. One would even have thought that the Ghost of Thomas Foley would have somehow shown them the egregious error of Following The Way of The Centrist Sell-Out. 

 

    Of course, one could argue that it takes a lot of "compromising" with the current Legislature to get the kind of results that keeps donations and support flowing from the likes of the California Chamber of Commerce. But in the case of these two bills, Schwarzenegger has gone from "Governator" to "Girlie Man" in one fell swoop with a certain large number of folks whose pride in voting their interest goes back to a certain critical election back in April, 1775.

 

    Yes, it can be said that the depleted ranks of the Brady Campaign will collectively pat the Governor on the head for giving them a bill that will make their fundraising easier for the next 14 months. Unfortunately, that is all that AB 1471 was truly intended to do, given that it makes semiautomatic pistols already on the California Approved List exempt from the micro-stamping requirement so long as their manufacturers have the business acumen to pay the annual fees and maintain the existing approvals.

 

    And yes, the Fish and Game Commission will have little recourse but to ban all center-fire rifle and pistol ammunition, as required by AB 821, that have any lead content at all in the projectiles, cases, and primers (So much for Barne's open cooperation with the likes of California Audubon, Defenders of Wildlife, and Project Gutpile in hopes of doing in their competition- Barne's declared at the August 27, 2007 Special Hearing of the Fish and Game Commission that even their "all copper" bullets had a certain amount of lead in them). Such a ban would mean an end to most hunting in about one third of the state. The resultant reduction in anthropogenic carrion needed for condor recovery will only force the members of the Condor Recovery Team to apply for larger and larger grants of taxpayer money from the Federal Government to sustain supplemental feeding efforts well past the time the Team Members are drawing Social Security.

 

    So what was truly accomplished by Arnold's signing of AB 1471 and AB 821? Well, in  a real sense, the Left has made sure that a portion of the electorate that would countenance a vote for Arnold for the sake of removing Boxer will now have "something to remember him by". Said base thus may be inclined, in a kind of poetic irony, to treat Arnold as he has treated them (Somehow the old maxim about staying with the date one brought to the school dance now seems inapplicable, given that the Governor has seemingly run-off with the political equivalent of the promiscuous bleached blond from the cheer-leading squad). If that itself is not a guarantee for the extinction of a once viable political career, then perhaps it is, at the least, a significant leading indicator of the diminished possibilities of Arnold's contract getting picked up for future options in the Great Theater of Politics.

 

    

Respectfully,