But that’s not to say that a staffer didn’t draft this while Arnold just scribbled his sig at the bottom.
8 letters, it’s ‘I Fuck You’ if you count the whole body disregarding the greeting and the closing.
It is not kind of awesome. It is simply awesome, no qualifier necessary.
“Kicking the can down the alley” might seem like a contrived phrase, but Arnie’s been using it at least since July, according to this news item.
F-u-c-k-y-o-u might not be a dignified message from a governor, but from a cigar-chomping governator…
This would have been funnier
I will not sign this
legislation because it is
laughably simplistic and
barely coherent. If my
executive powers are limited
by this sort of law then I’ll
always veto it.
Consider legislation that will
keep California strong.
Except that it doesn’t work, you have a break between one word and none separating the words. What makes Arnold’s clever is that he was able to make each paragraph conform nicely to a word.
Not remotely random. Certainly intentional. Funny, yes, and maybe even deserved. But undignified and extremely unlikely to help the Governator actually govern.
Nonsense, crushing one’s enemies is a standard part of the political process. It seems like he accomplished his goal quite well and that it will help him govern in the future. Now would be a good time to throw Ammiano a bone and cultivate a lapdog.
And that each line is the same length.
This is crushing? He delivered a moderately funny insult [ETA: to a guy he’s got a history with; and Ammiano did act like a dick]. Meanwhile his popularity rating is in the toilet and his state is broke. Explain how telling one guy “fuck you” is going to help him govern over the year-plus left in his term.
Did you read about this at all? This was the final blow in an ongoing battle with this guy.
Of course his popularity rating is in the toilet we’re in a recession. You guys are just being silly by acting like this somehow makes it more difficult for him to govern. Nonsense. He insulted one of his enemies with a craftily worded missive that he wrote in ten minutes.
I did. I missed the second part of the article earlier, and just edited my post after re-reading it.
Everybody’s in a recession. California is broke. But you’re probably right - the public already thinks he sucks and the state is financially screwed, so telling one jerkoff legislator “fuck you” over an insignificant bill probably does not hurt him. It’s also not a triumph of political will or crushing an opponent.
It probably won’t hurt him and it is indeed crushing his opponent. The ‘I Fuck You’ bit is just the cherry on top.
But I think most states governors are in a bad way. David Paterson probably won’t even run on the Democratic party ticket and will be pushed aside for Cuomo even though he’s not doing a terrible job with what he’s got. He’s been governing as a nuts and bolts guy but that pisses people off because he’s siphoning from everyone’s pies rather than strategically isolating a few special interests to bugger.
I hear the next step is to drive Ammiano before him and hear the lamentations of his women.
The SNL sketches are hilarious, though.
Ahem, hear the lamentations of his men.
No they weren’t they were just as stupid as every other SNL sketch for the past 20 years that didn’t involve Tina Fey as Sarah Palin. They weren’t even remotely funny.
Repeating, “New Jersey”, over and over again is the SNL standard of humor. Say something crass and offensive and repeat it loudly over and over, laugh riot. :rolleyes:
It’s immoral and offensive to laugh at SNL, you should be ashamed of yourself. It’s an affront to the soul of wit. Put your Brawndo down and pick up a book on how to do political satire. 
Scooped!
They are, but I’d be surprised if many of them are as unpopular as Schwarzenegger is. Plenty of states are having budget problems, but not like California is. Paterson’s in an entirely different universe of unpopularity.
lol…you’re good at that, Shodan!
Arnold clearly did it on purpose, and I laughed.