Sunday Talk

Bouncing between Meet the Press, This Week with George However-You-Spell-His-Name and Fox News Sunday, you see what a big news day it is.  Hurricaine Dennis is on-the-march, it looks like Bush will be appointing not one but two Supremes and the London attacks have everybody looking at our own turf again. 

But interspersed between all three shows, over-and-over in the commercial blocks here in Los Angeles, was one really irritating commercial -- a 30-second attack ad on Governor Arnold However-You-Spell-His-Name.

It featured a teacher, Sandra Fink, saying that the Governor had broken promises, lied and -- get this -- has a "secret plan" to attack teachers and public employees.  The quotes are theirs, not mine. 

A "Secret Plan"???

Give me a break here.  Arnold's plan is hardly secret.  The state of California practically had spent its way into oblivion when he took office and he's trying to do what he can to set it right.  Agree or disagree, that's his plan.  To spend less, you have to not give money to programs you gave it to before, right?

Arnold's popularity is on the definite wane here, something I wrote about when I first started this blog.  It's not that mysterious.  Millions of dollars are being spent, day after day, on crappy commercials like this one denouncing his "secret plan."

I support education.  But I also support anti-terrorism efforts, environmental protection, infra-structure repair and a whole lot of other things that come with price tags.

My message to Ms. Fink.  Tell your people to be part of the solution here, and try to work it out.  Arnold is a good guy at heart, everyone knows this, and it's just too damn early to start demonizing the man like you are.  Knock this off -- it's really starting to piss me off.

By the way, it's George Stephanopoulos and Arnold Schwarzenegger.  I looked 'em up...