Thanks for the Calendar
Like many a subscriber to the MoveOn.org listserv, I felt gleeful upon hearing that the Democrats did well in yesterday's mid-midterm election. However, upon hearing the outcome of California's special election, I felt a strange sensation last night and throughout the day today that I was finally able to identify as sympathy-------for Arnold Schwarzenegger. This puzzled me.
But nobody has really said this in all of the (admittedly scanty) coverage I've read, so I feel compelled to ask the voters of Califoria: What the fuck did you expect? I haven't seen the numbers or broken them down at all, but there had to be some people out there who voted to put Arnold in office and yesterday voted against all of the issues he proposed. What logic lies behind this? It's not like you had no idea what he wanted until you read all these ballot issues. They're pretty much what he campaigned on. So instead of sharing the left's he-he-he attitude toward what happened in California yesterday, I'm thinking more like, what a bunch of jerks.
Maybe a bunch of yahoos who voted him into office didn't bother to vote yesterday, and the people who did turn out were against him in the first place. Or (I don't remember which percentage he won with) maybe he can't gather a majority at all. It just seems very strange.
It would be really nice if our system worked on the momentum of yes-but-this-person-could-be-better, rather than God-this-is-getting-worse-quick-let's-get-someone-else-in-here. Instead it just seems like each side takes a 20-year turn and ends up scaring the piss out of everyone.
But nobody has really said this in all of the (admittedly scanty) coverage I've read, so I feel compelled to ask the voters of Califoria: What the fuck did you expect? I haven't seen the numbers or broken them down at all, but there had to be some people out there who voted to put Arnold in office and yesterday voted against all of the issues he proposed. What logic lies behind this? It's not like you had no idea what he wanted until you read all these ballot issues. They're pretty much what he campaigned on. So instead of sharing the left's he-he-he attitude toward what happened in California yesterday, I'm thinking more like, what a bunch of jerks.
Maybe a bunch of yahoos who voted him into office didn't bother to vote yesterday, and the people who did turn out were against him in the first place. Or (I don't remember which percentage he won with) maybe he can't gather a majority at all. It just seems very strange.
It would be really nice if our system worked on the momentum of yes-but-this-person-could-be-better, rather than God-this-is-getting-worse-quick-let's-get-someone-else-in-here. Instead it just seems like each side takes a 20-year turn and ends up scaring the piss out of everyone.
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