Schwarzenegger: Missing In Action

LA Times:

So, California. The economy's in the toilet, the state budget is bleeding red, the drought's getting worse and we've got wildfires so fierce, one of our main exports right now is the pall of smoke that's settled as far away as Nevada.

But Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is working hard to get things under control, his staff assured reporters at a briefing Tuesday. What they somehow forgot to mention is he'll be doing it all the way from Florida.

So where's Arnold?

Our own Evan Halper reports that Schwarzenegger slipped out of our state on his private jet Wednesday afternoon, headed for Miami. Why hang around just to see the legislature blow the July 1 deadline for enacting a budget when instead, you can be feted as an environmental hero at a climate-change conference 3,000 miles away?

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Comments

[zull2]

It's all great that Arnie cares about the environment. It really is. But he's extremely famous and could do that if he WEREN'T the governator. He could maybe even make respecting the environment out to be a manly, tough guy type of thing. He could publicly recycle his Hummer. The problem is, he IS the governor and he's got an obligation to do a whole lot more. Californians should really keep that fact in mind next time he's up for election.

[wadenelson1]

Until the people themselves are ready to make the sacrifices necessary to solve this country's problems no leader, not Ah-nold, not Obama, will be able to make much headway.