Finally, Arnold is our Governor. As Jay Leno said while introducing Arnold last night, the state will from now be called “Cah-Le-Fawn-Ya” and groping would be legalized.
Gov. Davis had hiked the car tax 300%. One of the first acts the new Gov. would perform would be to repeal the car tax raise. Gov. Davis had signed a bill allowing illegal immigrants to get drivers licence (talk about appeasing a vote bank). The new Gov. would repeal that too. He had campaigned with many ads targetting Indian Gaming. According to Arnold the Indians were not paying their “fair share” of taxes.
He also was against the Lobbyists in Sacramento who were paying the politicians to get favors. He said that since he is rich, he would not have to pander to them.
So guess who all will be against him when he comes up for re-election.
Another job Arnold should do is find the 9716 people who voted for the Adult Actress Book Review: PakistanCarey and expel them to Las Vegas.

Last week I was watching “Countdown with Keith Olbermann”:http://www.msnbc.com/news/countdownolbermann_front.asp?cp1=1&ta=y and he kept saying that he thinks Hillary would run for the office. Hillary had made a statement saying that she would not run for office in 2004. According to his sources, Former President Clinton was advising her how to get over that statement.
But even though Hillary Clinton has not made a public announcement, it looks like she is “running”:http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?P00003392 for the office of the President of United States. InstaPundit has the “instructions”:http://www.instapundit.com/archives/011870.php on how to find that for yourself.
So it could be Clinton vs Bush again in 2004.
Update (From National Review link sent by SAS) The entry Insta�s reader found was an ID created when a draft Hillary committee registered. Dig further and you�ll find records for a draft committee in 2000, too, I believe. So, while I�m still betting the day is coming (a matter of months), when Hillary jumps in, it hasn�t happened yet. (I checked it out yesterday, after a few Corner readers emailed me the same link the cyperpunditman has up.)

The newsmakers last week in US were, believe it or not, Tigers.
First performer Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy was “mauled by a tiger”:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/tiger_attack_magician on stage.
bq. He suffered a severe wound to his neck when the 7-year-old male tiger named Montecore attacked Friday night in front of hundreds of people. Officials said Sunday he had improved and could move his hands and feet.
And in New York, a man decided to have a “Tiger as a pet”:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20031006/od_nm/odd_tiger_dc in his apartment.
bq. New York has been described as a concrete jungle, but one Harlem resident seems to have taken that literally as police were called in to remove a tiger and an alligator from his apartment. Tipped off by phone calls from neighbors, police on Saturday found the wildlife in the apartment of 31-year-old Antoine Yates, who faces charges of reckless endangerment.
This is the last chance for the tigers to be in the limelight. Tomorrow it is the polls in California and all the talking heads are here, Tom Brokaw, Chris Matthews, Petter Jennings..

As we enter the final week of recall campaign in California, it is getting dirtier by the minute. Yesterday the LA Times ran an article on “Arnold Schwarzenegger’s past”:https://varnam.org/archives/000246.html. Now ABC News has published some quotes from an unpublished book proposal in which he said that “he admired Hitler”:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/10/03/national0955EDT0554.DTL for being a good public speaker and what he was able to do with it.
If you switch on the TV, you are bombarded with ads by Gray Davis, Bustemante, Arnold, and Native Indians. Often one follows the other, saying what the previous guy said is all wrong. The media has now discarded all major issues in the world like Iraq, Afghanistan, Al-Queda and is now concentrated on the recall. Anyways, the pain will be over in a few days.

It is just 5 days before the elections here in California and the LA Times has come with some muck against Arnold Schwarzenegger. In “the story”:http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/recall/la-me-women2oct02,1,2313555.story?coll=la-home-headlines, the LA Times managed to find the women whom Arnold had groped during his career.
This is one point Arinana Huffington has been stressing, Arnold does not treat women with respect

Yesterday we had another debate in California, this time including Arnold. Continuing with the circus theme, this debate was total entertainment, so much that the moderator had to say this, “Ladies and gentlemen, this is not Comedy Central”. Really, that is the standard the debate had. Here are some “samples”:http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/24/recall.debate/
bq. When she [Ariana Huffington] criticized GOP support for corporate tax loopholes, Schwarzenegger responded that he could “drive my Hummer” through the loopholes she used to pay negligible personal income tax during the last two years.
bq. She retorted, “I was writing and researching a book, and I wasn’t making $20 million violent movies.”
bq. At another point, when Schwarzenegger interrupted her, Huffington objected. “This is the way you treat women. We know that. But not now.”
bq. Allowed to rebut what Statham ruled was a personal attack, Schwarzenegger said, “I would just like to say that I just realized that I have a perfect part for you in ‘Terminator 4.'” He also suggested that she might need “more decaf.”
Meanwhile many other candidates got together for a show called “Who wants to be Governor”:http://www.nbc4.tv/politics/2507804/detail.html, which was a debating game to be aired on the Game Show channel.

Republican Darrel Issa, who spent his personal wealth to start the California Recall Circus has now asked people to “vote no on the recall”:http://www.nirajweb.net/mt/niraj/archives/001916.html, if there are two Republicans in the race.
This show cannot get anymore ridiculous. Yesterday on Jay Leno, 90 candidates were present. It was on Jay Leno that Arnold announced his candidacy. So to be fair to all others, Jay invited everyone. According to election rules, he cannot show one candidate in close up. If so he has to show all 90. But there was a loop hole in this. If he insulted a person, he could show them for that amount of time, without having to show everyone else.
So Jay went around, insulting almost everyone at their face. The porn actress Cary was also present. Jay said that she was the only punched ballot in the crowd, and gave him the finger.
So please do not call our elections as a circus anymore, it has outgrown that word.

Switching on the TV today morning, I felt happy I am living in Sunny California. “Hurricane Isabel”:http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0903/18isabelkill.html?urac=n&urvf=10639013164410.5427537297438526 has hit the Carolina coast. But I am sure the hurricane will have to fight it out to enter the land. The coast from Florida to New York is filled with camera crews from all the media and there is no way a hurricane can break that human wall.
Some reporters, in their enthusiasm to report or maybe not finding space on the land, have started reporting from knee deep water. So people in inland states beware, soon you may find a reporter swinging past your roof as the intensity of Isabel increase.

There is going to be another debate among the candidates for the Governor in California on Sept 24th. This is the only one which Arnold Schwarzenegger has agreed to participate. This time it is an open book exam. The questions for the debate have “been released”:http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/insider/archives/000604.html. The candidates have been given one week to memorize the answers and enact as if they are speaking after considerable thought.
Hey, anything to provide entertainment.