Schwarzenegger "anyone saying offshore drilling will bring down gas prices is blowing smoke."

[grantcart]

Schwarzenegger criticizes McCain's offshore drilling proposal

At a Florida conference on global warming, California's governor says drilling will not bring down oil prices, and he urges consumers to use more renewable resources.
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
7:47 PM PDT, June 26, 2008

MIAMI -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made a veiled swipe at Republican presidential hopeful John McCain on Thursday when he said at a climate conference here that anyone suggesting offshore oil drilling could bring down gas prices was "blowing smoke."


From his podium at the conference, Schwarzenegger said, "Politicians have been throwing around all kinds of ideas in response to the skyrocketing energy prices, from the rethinking of nuclear power to pushing biofuels and more renewables and ending the ban on offshore drilling," Schwarzenegger said. "But anyone who tells you this would bring down gas prices any time soon is blowing smoke."

Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear later contacted The Times and other news media to say the governor's remarks were not aimed at McCain or Crist.

The Austrian-born governor also chastised U.S. energy consumers for lagging behind those in his state and Europe in using renewable resources and likened the challenge of combating global warming to defeating communism and putting a man on the moon

And over to Obama's TV commercial editing room , cue Schwarzenegger remarks and roll them.

[NewJeffCT]

1. Is Arnold making a play for a spot in the Obama cabinet?

Hasn't Obama praised Arnold as well?

[tiptoe]

5. Arnie's trash+crook: complicit w Lay to RIPOFF $9B (now $11B) from CA. He owes CA $11B.

Randi Rhodes' Hillary was used by Mark Penn, advisor to Bush campaign, recommended to her by "good dem" DLC-er Bill C.

• GOP recycles Clinton's attacks against Obama

Olbermann: John McCain's Connection to Big Oil & The Enron Loophole June 18, 2008 (YouTube)

• DLC-Bill Clinton never undid Gramm's changes (1992-2000) on CFTC "hands off" regulatory policy for oil futures trader Enron/CEO Ken Lay.
  
• Fast forward to year 2000 and Bush v Gore: In the chaos of constitutional crisis, Enron got a law passed containing what is now known as the Enron loophole. Where Graham deregulated individual trades, the Enron loophole deregulated entire markets (oil, natural gas,propane) ... ONLINE markets.
  Enron had just started it's own ONLINE MARKET...and SET ITS SIGHTS on the STATE of California.

Palast: Arnold's Enron Secret

• The wannabe governor has yet to deny that on May 17, 2001, at the Peninsula Hotel in Los Angeles, he had consensual political intercourse with Enron chieftain Kenneth Lay.
  
  Now, 34 pages of internal Enron memoranda have just come through this reporter's fax machine that tell all about the tryst between Maria's husband and the corporate con men. It turns out that Schwarzenegger knowingly joined the hush-hush encounter as part of a campaign to sabotage a Davis-Bustamante plan to make Enron and other power pirates then ravaging California pay back the $9 billion in illicit profits they carried off. ...
  
  
  

  For those of you not familiar with the Democratic Leadership Council a brief aside is in order. In 1985 a group dominated by conservative Southern Democrats including Al Gore, Chuck Robb, Sam Nunn, John Breaux, and an Arkansas governor named William Jefferson Clinton organized the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) with the initial mission of securing the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination for a moderate Southerner.
  
  By 1990 Bill Clinton had became chair of the DLC. His first act was to preside over the formulation of the 1990 New Orleans Declaration. This document would become the blueprint for Clinton’s future and that of the Democratic Party. The most telling of these principles are:
  

  We believe that economic growth is the prerequisite to expanding opportunity for everyone. The free market, regulated in the public interest, is the best engine of general prosperity.
  
  

[grantcart]

10. I think it is doubtful that he wants that kind of a desk job

I am not sure that he even would want to be a Senator either.

I think an executive position where he could run his own show and go out into the field is what he wants.

[Aviation Pro]

2. Ahnold, in spite of his sordid past....

...has gained my respect. I'd love to see a Photoshop picture of Preznit Fuckstick held in a choke hold in the poster of Schwarzenegger's "Commando." You remember it:

[grantcart]

9. sordid past now doing the right thing

what could represent California better lol

[Cleita]

21. He vetoed single payer universal health care in California,

something that would have gone very far in fixing what is wrong with this state and solved many of our problems with poverty, homelessness and the uninsured and underinsured. I don't call that doing the right thing.

[Colobo]

3. Arnie, you got it right this time.

[bahrbearian]

4. Iam nooooooooooow enlightennnt,,,,,,ILLLLLL Beeee Baaaack.

[phrigndumass]

6. Line up the republicans against off-shore drilling and get them on tape!

It would make a great ad for Obama.

[Historic NY]

7. And Arnie knows about blowing smoke...."I'll be back".

[grantcart]

11. lol

[seafan]

8. Schwarzenegger splits from Crist on gulf drilling

AP


Schwarzenegger splits from Crist on gulf drilling

By David Adams, Times Staff Writer
June 27, 2008

MIAMI — For a second year, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger flew in for a climate change summit, heaping praise on Gov. Charlie Crist's work in Florida.

Until the subject turned to offshore oil drilling.

Schwarzenegger made his position clear Thursday. He spoke out strongly against ending a ban on offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, an idea Crist backed last week alongside Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

"Anyone who tells you this will lower our gas prices anytime soon is blowing smoke," Schwarzenegger said.

His spokesman said the statement was not personally directed at his fellow Republicans. However, Schwarzenegger is clear on the issue, Aaron McLear added. "He doesn't believe in offshore drilling. He certainly doesn't agree with McCain and Crist on that."

.....

But just minutes before, Schwarzenegger joked about the traits he shares with Crist.

"California and Florida have so much in common,'' he said. "Of course each of the states has a governor that is nice and tan. And each state has a governor that at any given time, can go to the beach and rip off our clothes and be seen in a bathing suit. And each of the states has a governor that could run for vice president..." As the crowd reacted, the Austrian-born governor added: "I know. You're right. He's the only one that can do it. I stand to be corrected."

.....

Just no comment will suffice.

[cui bono]

13. He's wrong about the bathing suit part...

:puke:

[Raine]

12. Sometimes Arnie takes the correct stand

I don't hate him as much as I've hated some of our other reTHUG Govs like Dukemejian, Wilson and of course the WORST ... Raygun. :puke:

[Cleita]

14. Arnold is suffering from a case of NIMBY.

He doesn't want ugly oil rigs ruining his view of the ocean. However, I will take any progress towards solar and other renewable energy where I can get it. However, he never will get my vote as long as he has an R after him.

[grantcart]

15. have to give him more credit than that - he also is against the ammendment

against same sex marriage.

[skooooo]

16. What kinds of things has he supported...

....that you don't like? I don't follow him all that closely, but I have a theory that anyone brought up in Europe can't sink as low as right-wing Republicanism (with the extreme exceptions of skin-heads, etc.).

[Cleita]

19. Arnold actually has sunk pretty low in the past.

Unfortunately, most of the information on line about his illegal immigration, about his construction business fleecing homeowners for after earthquake repairs, not to mention all his sexual peccadilloes including rape and statutory rape and later adultery while married to Maria Shriver have conveniently disappeared. Also, his so-called MBA is from a diploma mill and his business ventures are not all that successful although people like to applaud him as a businessman.

[Cleita]

17. Arnold panders to the left when it doesn't cost him politically so that

people like you will think, "Oh well, he's not such a bad bloke after all."

However, this is what Arnold does when he has to do payback to his corporate masters. We in California through initiative and passage in our legislature in both houses passed the single payer universal health care bill SB840 sponsored by Senator Sheila Kuehl. So this was voted on by the people and by our legislature and Arnold vetoed it because his nose is stuck up the ass of the for profit health care industry. Now he's trying to push his health plan through that was written by health insurance lobbyists. I think you will find his actions very consistent in many ways with this kind of thinking. As a movie star, Arnold is very familiar with how to do publicity so he knows what to posture on and not lose votes and how to keep his right wing support. Other than that, he never would have been elected by the stupid people who voted for him thinking he's a liberal. Arnold honestly believes that common people need to be told what to do because they don't know how to think for themselves. I think you will find quotes by him on google saying this in his own words.

[FrenchieCat]

18. He was last seen publicly getting into a car

which was sportin' an Obama bumper sticker. True story!

[Cleita]

20. Maria his wife is supporting Obama. It must have been her car.n/t

He has already openly endorsed McCain.