Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Nuff said. Or is that Puff said.....
Faced with total collapse, Scheissenesser finally came to his senses on the subject of energy and oil, but the legislature remained suicidal:
The prissy elites always win in the end. Their peculiar desire to see a flat horizon from their billion-dollar beachfront property overrules all other considerations. We don't need no steenkin gas for our cars! We don't need no steenkin taxes to help our state survive! No, give me a flat horizon or give me death!
But only the male elites are prissy. Female elites are the other way around:
Not exactly a self-explanatory sentence, but close enough. ¶ 1:01 PM
The assembly, by a 30-42 vote, cut the bill championed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after the senate approved the full package by a 21-18 vote. Schwarzenegger and minority and majority leaders of the senate and assembly included it when they reached a tentative emergency budget agreement on July 20 for the legislature to consider.
It potentially would have provided $100 million initially and up to $2.3 billion of royalty payments from the 13-year lifespan of Plains Exploration & Production Co.’s proposed Tranquillon Ridge project. It also would have overturned the State Lands Commission decision in January to reject it, which opponents argued would have created a dangerous precedent.
The prissy elites always win in the end. Their peculiar desire to see a flat horizon from their billion-dollar beachfront property overrules all other considerations. We don't need no steenkin gas for our cars! We don't need no steenkin taxes to help our state survive! No, give me a flat horizon or give me death!
But only the male elites are prissy. Female elites are the other way around:
There was one near-constant in the budget talks: Dennis Hollingsworth was the first one into the governor's office and the last one out.
The Senate Republican leader from Murrieta forged a close alliance with Schwarzenegger; the pair were repeatedly spotted by staff and fellow lawmakers puffing on cigars in the governor's courtyard smoking tent, even after hours of fractious budget talks.
Even more unlikely, however, was the kinship struck between Hollingsworth, an ardent opponent of gay marriage, and Schwarzenegger's Democratic chief of staff, Susan Kennedy, who married another woman in a ceremony in Hawaii about 10 years ago.
They, too, bonded over cigars. Kennedy is known to have some of the finest in the house.
Not exactly a self-explanatory sentence, but close enough. ¶ 1:01 PM
