Sherry Jeffe
Sherry Jeffe
carrots speaker
The speaker has very little in the way of carrots or sticks.
annoyed asked clearly compete election president until
Schwarzenegger is clearly annoyed as he asked that the president not come until after the election because he did not want to compete for cash.
brown build legacy needs page pat record running taken
I think he understands he needs to build a record if he is running for re-election and a legacy if he is not. He has taken a page from the Pat Brown playbook.
decided declaring everybody happened leno mean recall run
Just because he's declaring now doesn't mean he has to run. Look what happened (in the recall campaign) when everybody thought he wasn't going to run and he decided on the Leno show he was.
amendment simple
Just because a person is a celebrity, he or she does not have to give up his or her first amendment rights, it's as simple as that.
against burned candidates embrace guess run stay wants wing
My guess is he's going to stay away from anointing candidates, having been burned once. He's not stupid. If he wants to run for the center, he can't embrace a set of candidates against the conservative wing or one that comes from the conservative wing. That's politically dicey whichever way he goes.
casualties indication moving troops
There has to be some real indication that we're moving the troops out. There has to be an indication that casualties are tapering off.
illegal reality situation
The reality of the situation is that there is nothing illegal about doing it,
game
The permutations and combinations are endless. It's like a game of three-dimensional chess.
extent george large three
Three words: George W. Bush. His personality to a large extent got him his victory.
felt release
They felt that it would release the stranglehold that partisanship had on government,
bond contested democratic helpful influences issues primary
There will be a contested Democratic primary (for governor). I don't know if that influences turnout, but if it does, that would be helpful to Reiner. On the other hand, if there are a lot of bond issues on the ballot, that could have some fallout.
against election everybody knowing legacy limits shape term
This is the legacy of term limits everybody against everybody else. There's just no way of knowing how the election will shape up.
arnold referendum rhetoric
I think it's flat-out a referendum on Arnold and his agenda. I don't think there's any way around that. He's made it so by his own rhetoric and his own positioning.