It Won't Be a Chance Encounter (Bush, Arnold meetup)

Bush's first meeting with Schwarzenegger is tightly scripted to keep expectations realistic.

By Maura Reynolds and Peter Nicholas, Times Staff Writers

WASHINGTON — When President Bush shakes hands with California Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday in Riverside, the event will be as scripted as if Bush were meeting a foreign head of state.

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Schwarzenegger already has put the White House in a bind. In his first post-election news conference, the governor-elect made plain that he would look to Washington for more federal grant money — something the administration, with a projected $500-billion federal deficit looming, has little leeway to provide.

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It's a dialogue Bush also is eager to begin. The White House believes that the recall election has fundamentally shaken the political status quo in California — so much so that Bush stands a chance of carrying the state in 2004.

After analyzing the voting patterns in the recall, "we became convinced that he could win here," the Bush campaign official said. Citing the votes won by Schwarzenegger and state Sen. Tom McClintock, the other major Republican candidate in the recall race, he added: "That's a heck of a majority."
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bush15oct15,1,2665063.story?coll=la-headlines-california
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Unless the honeymoon ends a little earlier then expected.

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California Democrats for the Recall of Aunald meet here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=106&topic_id=3018

Totally Recall Arnold Schwarzenegger Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/schwarze/petition.html

Yahoo Group for the recall of Arnold
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RecallArnoldwatch/

re-call was an anti-incumbent vote and I guess someone forgot to tell Georgie he's the incumbent

Arnold or no Arnold. The only way they COULD carry the state, is with BBV, and stealing the votes. Between now and the election, Bush is going nowhere but down, and Californians won't follow him there, despite the frustration they showed in the recall vote.

If anything, it shows they CA is in a "throw the incumbents" out kinda mood, and this could be bad for a few well known Dems here too, especially those that continually vote to support PNAC/Bush/Sharon, by blindly voting to support Israel. In doing so, these Dems (like Pelosi and Feinstein), are actually helping Bush and PNAC expand their plans for wars, and ME subjugation, which could help Bush with his "re-election".

Why are they doing that?

Saying the votes for Arnold and McClintock will translate into votes for Bush is patently ridiculous. Bush has much more in common with Davis than he has with Arnold. And Arnold didn't exactly run like a traditional Republican. Bush will not win California.