fine idea

[click image — looking spookily more like Ronnie every day... wish he'd knock off the hair dye... looks stupid....]

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I think this is one area where he has been good, actually did some good governating. Lort knows they could use someone with some GONADS over there.

Schwarzenegger could see himself in Washington
December 17, 2010 | 4:25 pm

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told The Times on Friday that he hadn’t had time to think about his next move. But he certainly sounded like someone with a job description in mind.

Gov.-elect Jerry Brown will be inaugurated in less than three weeks. Still, when Schwarzenegger was asked in a meeting with Times editors and editorial writers what he planned to do once his term ends, he initially said, "There’s no rush.... It’s not like I have something in my mind."

Then, asked if he would consider a post in the Obama administration, he said yes and began to riff on his credentials. "I’m a very big believer in environmental issues," said the governor, who considers legislation to combat global warming one of his major achievements in office. "I’ve traveled the world.... I’m very familiar with the world."

The governor went on to say that he would like to work on public policy issues in which he could have an impact "with my celebrity power, and also my knowledge and experience."

Once out of office, he said, he "has plans to go back to Washington with Secretary [George] Schultz and others" to push for a new approach to energy policy. He said the country needs to bring Democrats and Republicans together on energy policies that both sides can agree on in order to reduce dependence on foreign oil and become competitive, "rather than always talking about global warming, which turns some people off."

Schwarzenegger said he has credibility on that issue, and "people are very receptive when I talk about these things because I’m a Hummer driver … not a tree hugger."

Anyone need an energy czar?

—David Lauter in Los Angeles

I mean, we already know it won't be perfect, but, heck, the bar is SO low, all he'd have to do is ONE good thing and, pft, King Arthur Reincarnate... but... well... I wish he'd go back to making stupid movies....

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No. Really.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Hoping other states will follow suit, California regulators overwhelmingly approved the nation's most extensive system giving owners of power plants, refineries and other major polluters financial incentives to emit fewer greenhouse gases.

The Governator has been visibly, tangibly, in favor of our home planet.

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Right, right, frickin' fascist-friendly R-word, blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, blah, blah... pfeh. I know it ain't gonna be much, okay? It's just liable to be actually a step up from the performance of our frickin' fascist-friendly D-words. Don't be a jackass.

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And Moonbeam is just around the corner. For you youngsters who weren't around when he was governor before, he did a good job. The farmers got pissed as hell over him being a pansy about pesticides and pitched a purple polkadotted hissy, yelled and screamed and hopped up and down and called him that goddam hippie "Governor Moonbeam" — you really, really don't want to piss off the California Farm Bureau guys, noosirreebob, you don't — not healthy — but he was a good governor. I think he will be again. I don't even think it's possible to be good enough in public office anywhere in America anymore, but Moonbeam will do it if it's humanly possible.

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