In the news recently, Obama's health care nightmare has cleared a major hurdle by gaining a Republican supporter. With this collapse into the whims and fancy of that ludicrousness called "bipartisanism" we face what empiricism and experience tell us is a juggernaut: this bill, having broke loose of the bonds of petty squabbling, will snowball it's way down a mountain of bureaucracy, tossing aside obstacles with increasing ease as it accumulates its porky momentum. Then it will meander up the White House lawn to the waiting rubber stamp of the so-called President, and the keening, squawking, unwashed masses will finally have their white elephant - a morbid karmic reward for kissing a black ass.
On the upside of things, California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger made a good show of being an executive yesterday by taking a red pen to 229 bills that the over-zealous California legislature felt necessary to print up, pile up, and ship over to his desk, no doubt expensed to their already critically over-burdened budget. Through the excercise of a little reason and business sense he was undoubtedly able to prevent the expenditure of further billions of dollars, taken in loan with the future incomes of the next generation as collateral, and keep the fools on their capitol hill doing little more harm than wasting printer paper and toner.
Exercising excessive executive exuberance, Governor Schwarzenegger was alert and sensible enough to further sign into law two extremely important measures, which are the true purpose to today's entry. But before I discuss them, I would like to mention that this is the proof of his attention to the duties of his office. Unlike some officials, who are prone to veto or approve everything that comes across their desks, California's Governor took time to review and consider almost 250 bills, no small feat in and of itself, and accomplished several acceptable goals:
1 - He prevented, as mentioned, a great deal of inevitable government spending in a state that sorely needs to show some financial restraint and responsibility
2 - He demonstrated understanding that the role of the executive in our structure of government is to understand and pass Final Judgement on a law, not to serve as a proofreader and stamp
3 - He stood up for Freedom in the face of a noisy and powerful interest group.
Among the bills signed were a provision to recognize same-sex marriages from outside of the State, even though such marriages are not legal to be performed within the State; and the creation of Harvey Milk Appreciation Day, which further recommends that educators take time to educate students about Harvey Milk's, and by proxy, the entire Gay Rights Movement's, life and struggle.
Governor Schwarzenegger has previously expressed his favor for Gay Rights and his objections to the passage of 2008's Proposition 8, which amended that State's constitution to recognize only heterosexual marriages. However, due to the American system of checks and balances, and the cowardice of certain judges and executives, this abominable measure was foolishly left to the mob-rule of a majority vote, and, as the mob is the manifestation of the Lowest Common Denominator, the mob chose to ostracize, dehumanize, and disenfranchise a section of our population for no good reason at all. But I digress. Here, finally, we have before us an example of an executive recognizing an opportunity to weaken the hold of the mob on the freedoms of others and he, in a manner unbefitting a politician of late, took it; and with a simple stroke of a pen simultaneously bit his thumb at some of this countries most powerful, most vocal, and most wealthy enemies of freedom.
So let us compare and contrast for a moment. In California yesterday we witnessed a rare example of the responsible wielding of power. Freedoms were preserved, monies were saved (and therefore, as Benjamin Franklin once observed, earned), and integrity of character was shown. In Washington D.C., we are as always privy to a neverending series of errors that would be comedic if it were anywhere but real life, but are now engaged to a special treat, wherein over (what will likely only be) the next several months we will be permitted to witness a stupendous display of corruption, inanity and insanity; an orgy to suckle the pig-teat of money and power that will culminate in the most corpulent boondoggle imaginable: Universal Healthcare.
And here we reach the final nail in this soapbox. Our national leaders are still the filthy, consumptive, gonorrheaic whores that they have ever been, but locally we have seen the freshness of true Statesmanship, not just in Schwarzenegger, but in others too, that embodies the change we need, if not the Change "we" want.
And if we decide we don't like it, well hey, with a little irresponsibility we can have gonorrhea again.
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