Bi-Partisan, Party of One?
Here is an excerpt from today’s column by Dan Walters in the Sacramento Bee:
Notably, however, Schwarzenegger and the Democrats did business largely on Democratic policy issues without Republican legislators. So the "bipartisanship" he’s still touting as an effective approach to governance was really just one Republican — himself — and a bunch of Democrats, although he was careful not to unduly alienate the state’s business community.
Walters brings up a good point.
What the Governor is labeling ‘bi-partisan’ cooperation has really been his own personal willingness to embrace several items on the Democrat Party agenda, and more or less unilaterally enact them. So the burning question in my mind is when does the pendulum swing the other way? When do we see Tax CUTS, spending REDUCTIONS, SCALING BACK regulations, LOWERING fees — all of the GOP principles that involve shifting power out of state government and back to taxpayers?
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