Author Topic: Schwarzenegger Calls Budget Opponents 'Girlie Men' (Read 1813 times)

Holden McGroin · « **on:** July 19, 2004, 05:57:34 AM »

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NYTimes By JOHN M. BRODER July 19, 2004

LOS ANGELES, July 18 - With his frustration mounting this weekend over his inability to muscle a budget through the Legislature, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called his Democratic opponents "girlie men" and vowed to work to unseat them in November.

At an appearance on Saturday in Ontario, Calif., Mr. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, criticized the leaders of the Democratic-dominated Legislature, saying they were part of a political system that was "out of shape, that is out of date, that is out of touch and that is definitely out of control in Sacramento."

He said Democrats blocking his $103 billion proposal for the fiscal year that began July 1 were too weak to stand up to special interests like unions and trial lawyers who wanted changes in the budget.

"I call them girlie men," Mr. Schwarzenegger said of the Democrats, as hundreds of shoppers who had gathered to hear him speak roared their approval at the Ontario Mills megamall, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles. "They should get back to the table and they should finish the budget."

lazs2 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 19, 2004, 08:05:58 AM »

And you wonder why I like him so much?

He hasn't figured out that if he wants a career he needs to lie and smootch butt.. Oh wait... he doesn't care about a career..

lazs

Red Tail 444 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 19, 2004, 08:16:54 AM »

It's one thing for a poster to call people girly men, it's quite another to have an elected official to denigrate men by further denigrating women, by suggesting that women are "weak."

Nothing new here, he's been denigrating women for much of his life anyway. Next thing you know he'll be calling shrewd and frugal businessmen "Jews"...

lazs2 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 19, 2004, 08:22:19 AM »

what redtail... you didn't get the meaning? Was Arnie unclear to you? I believe that he chose his words perfectly.

Now it is funny to watch the PC crowd make a big deal out of it instead of the real issue....

Why are the girlie men allowed to exist?

lazs

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 19, 2004, 08:27:24 AM »

He should have called them F***ing girlie men. He would have gotten away with that.

mosgood · « **Reply #5 on:** July 19, 2004, 08:33:28 AM »

this is gonna be good......

Otto · « **Reply #6 on:** July 19, 2004, 08:39:37 AM »

Wow......! So a Politician stands up and says something that the voters can actually understand, and half his constituents go 'ballistic'. Go figure....?

lazs2 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 19, 2004, 08:44:05 AM »

what I don't understand is why it is considered an insult to the people it is aimed at. If they believe that women have the right to vote and are equal then what is the problem?

lazs

AKIron · « **Reply #8 on:** July 19, 2004, 09:12:37 AM »

WTG Arnie! We'll need that constitutional amendment yet.

midnight Target · « **Reply #9 on:** July 19, 2004, 09:15:04 AM »

Ahnold is the best democrat in this state.

Charon · « **Reply #10 on:** July 19, 2004, 09:27:52 AM »

LOL, WTG Arnie. California should have entertaining politics

Charon

Trell · « **Reply #11 on:** July 19, 2004, 09:38:49 AM »

Hell this pushes him up higher in my regard.

I get frustrated with all these guys that dont wanna offend anyone. No matter what you will offend someone, You might as well pick the ones you wanna offent right

JBA · « **Reply #12 on:** July 19, 2004, 09:44:03 AM »

Look were his biggest criticism is coming from..lol

State Sen. Sheila Kuehl said the governor had resorted to "blatant homophobia."

"It uses an image that is associated with gay men in an insulting way, and it was supposed to be an insult. That's very troubling that he would use such a homophobic way of trying to put down legislative leadership," said Kuehl, one of five members of the Legislature's five-member Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Caucus.

............................. Aronold said this......................... ......

"If they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers ... if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men," Schwarzenegger said to the cheering crowd at a mall food court in Ontario.

............................. .were it comes from......................... .......

The governor lifted the term from a long-running "Saturday Night Live" skit in which two pompous, Schwarzenegger-worshipping weightlifters repeatedly use it to mock those who don't meet their standards of physical perfection

Eagler · « **Reply #13 on:** July 19, 2004, 09:55:10 AM »

dont know who is funnier in this thread ...
Arnie or RedTail - LOL

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #14 on:** July 19, 2004, 10:09:21 AM »

Stop throwing a hissy fit RedTail...