'Ahnold' takes red-eye to D.C.

Illustration Duke Rescola and Google Images
You've been screwed, Golden State...

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Probably the least effective teaching strategy imaginable is to slap a student upside the head with an eight-pound civics textbook and pray they absorb California politics.

I can't believe Californians haven't seen through the glitter and glam of the quasi-red carpet persona to see that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is nothing more than the bully in charge.

It’s easy to put the broken promise of his gubernatorial years under a microscope and understand how I was able to copyright the term "Educ-Hater" (sort of rhymes with Educator) in editorials nearly two years ago.

While it began as part of an editorial about the "College Textbook Affordability Act," in 2007, I tried to warn you guys against Arnold when he was running to replace former Gov. Gray "the clerk" Davis. Now we’re $42 billion in debt and on the verge of insolvency (not an economic term as gentle as it sounds).

Schwarzenegger might be many things to many people, but to me he transcends his silver screen image; he is a wealthy ne'er-do-well intent on stepping over our corpses to be a career politician.

No sooner had he given a "Terminator" reminiscent 'thumb-up' to the vile Golden State budget and he was off to promote himself as a moderate/conservative in Washington, D.C. Hell, he didn’t even leave Sacramento before he whored himself as a redeemed national conservative by pushing to have needles quickly spiked into inmates on Death Row.

Arnold is simultaneously selling himself as a George W. Bush-type kill-'em-all-let-God-sort-'em-out tough-on crime governor and giving a "woot-woot" to President Obama's stimulus package. This is playing both ends against the middle, but it isn't because Schwarzenegger thinks it’s a Kennedy/Shriver privelege; he’s spreading his political safety net.

You have to wonder if he or his agent Lou Pitt have a soul by taking a role from Sylvester Stallone in the soon-to-be flick,"The Expendables" that Arnie is locked into. Ask yourself, fellow Californians, “Who are 'The Expendables' in this multi-gazillion dollar production, where Arnold is expected to play, ahem, a governor?" They are us.

Have you any doubt that the acting role is a result of lobbying by the film industry? Part of the California budget agreement was to pony up preferential tax cuts (notice a pandering trend) to the Hollywood machine.

And now, some Ahnold via The Simpsons