Archive for September 17th, 2008

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It’s a Good Thing – John McCain Email Edition.

September 17, 2008

H/T Shenanigans.

Former prison princess Martha Stewart said:

It would be “really weird” to elect a president who doesn’t know how to email, Martha Stewart said on her TV show Wednesday morning.

Stewart was interviewing Politico’s Jonathan Martin and Ben Smith about blogging the presidential race when the subject turned to the candidate’s technological fluency, generally, and Republican candidate John McCain’s relative computer illiteracy, specifically.

“Well, how would you feel about having a president who doesn’t use the most current mode of communication?” Stewart asked Martin, who turned the question around.

“How would you feel about that?” he countered.

“I would feel weird – really weird, because I think you have to keep up with whatever’s there. And whatever’s prevalent. And communication’s changed so much,” she said.

IDK, I feel weirder knowing people are actually voting for a guy who thinks China’s infrastructure is vastly better than the United States.

But what do I know…apparently ~email~ is more important to talk about than Obama’s socialist ideas.

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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to Veto State Budget

September 17, 2008

IT’S A BUDGET FOR GIRLY MEN.  Uh…I mean:

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he will veto a state budget passed after a 78-day stalemate, setting up a historic showdown with the Legislature.

As the San Francisco Chronicle explains, the proposed budget sought to close a $17 billion deficit for the fiscal year that began July 1 without new taxes, a demand by Republicans. It did so by requiring all taxpayers to make earlier and larger tax payments to the state government.

Schwarzenegger, a Republican, made the announcement this afternoon. The veto will mark the first time in modern history that a California governor has rejected a state spending plan. The Democrat-controlled Legislature has said it is prepared to override a veto.

Yesterday, about 12 hours before the last vote was taken at 2 a.m. today, the governor sent Assembly and Senate leaders a letter threatening the veto

“I have been very clear this entire year that I would be unable to sign a budget without meaningful budget reform,” the governor wrote, stressing that spending cuts were needed.

State Treasurer Bill Lockyer, a Democrat, also assailed the budget plan, saying this morning that it “gives gimmicks a bad name.”

“It’s banana republic financing,” Lockyer said. The spending plan relies on “phony money and phony estimates.”

Honestly, I appreciate any State Treasurer calling a budget “banana republic financing”…speaking of which, there’s a coat at Banana Republic I’ve had my eye on for some time…

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