Schwarzenegger: Obama needs team players now

[frigidmagi]

Newsweek

The country's in the middle of a crisis and the president needs team players.

That's the view of a Republican governor, California's Arnold Schwarzenegger, when talking about the bipartisan support Democratic President Barack Obama needs now.

Schwarzenegger and fellow governors are in Washington this weekend for meetings. They see Obama at the White House on Monday.

Schwarzenegger says he feels strongly that Obama needs team players right now. He says governors, Congress, the White House — everyone has to play together during these tough times, rather than playing politics and making attacks.

Schwarzenegger also calls the recently signed stimulus bill a tremendous package that will help his financially ailing state.

The governor spoke on ABC's "This Week."

Independently wealthy, fame that nears religious levels and a task that could have broken Heracles. That's what allows Arnould to moon the GOP pretty much at will. Course given what his "own party" did for him recently in Cali, he might not be in a mood to toe any party lines. After all the one thing I have consistently heard about him is he really really believes in doing his job, whatever that job happens to be.

[rhoenix]

Independently wealthy, fame that nears religious levels and a task that could have broken Heracles. That's what allows Arnould to moon the GOP pretty much at will. Course given what his "own party" did for him recently in Cali, he might not be in a mood to toe any party lines. After all the one thing I have consistently heard about him is he really really believes in doing his job, whatever that job happens to be.

This, quite honestly, is what earned him my grudging respect. I didn't like him at first, and didn't want to.

Then...as I paid attention to what it was that he was doing, I found myself nodding and thinking "that makes sense."

I don't agree on everything he chooses, but I do respect and understand his decision-making process enough to know that he does take his job very seriously.

And this is a little personal, but given the Republicans I've met and become friends with (including Havoc here on these forums), I'd say the Republican party could do much worse than rallying around The Governator than Michael "The government never made a job!" Steele.


(edit: Frigid's not a Republican.)

[Cynical Cat]

Arnold has to govern California, a state which derives no small amount of its revenue from the Fed spending on war toys when the Fed has serious money problems and the global economy is tanking. He needs solutions and the Republicans won't produce anyone close to as electable as he is. He can change parties and probably still keep the job. It's not like he's a hardliner or doesn't have the Democratic family connections (wife*cough cough* Kennedy). They need him more than he needs them.

[frigidmagi]

but given the Republicans I've met and become friends with (including Frigid and Havoc here on these forums)

I'm right wing, but I have no membership in the Republican Party. I've been a registered independent since 2002.

[rhoenix]

I'm right wing, but I have no membership in the Republican Party. I've been a registered independent since 2002.

Oh! Fixed, then. Sorry about that.