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...came into office promising to balance the state's books, has yet to implement any major financial reforms, and the bills for past borrowings are coming due. He has tried to use his popularity to go around the Democrat-controlled legislature, but governing through ballot initiatives has its limits. "Arnold is the 'stop the bleeding' guy," says Joel Kotkin, a Schwarzenegger supporter who is an economic analyst at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington. "But I don't know if he is going to do the reconstructive surgery...
...seems to be getting away with it." Others point out that the Governor's star appeal doesn't always translate into power. In the November elections, Republicans didn't pick up a single seat in the legislature despite Schwarzenegger's appearance at Republican rallies across the state. "Arnold has always said politics is like show business," says Art Torres, chairman of the California Democratic Party. "But the fact is, [his political events] are not producing political action...
...freeways. He created the 25 million-acre Sierra Nevada Conservancy, the biggest nature conservancy in the state. He signed a bill prohibiting sale of .50-cal. guns, and came out for a ban, to take effect in 2012, on force-feeding ducks, which is how foie gras is produced. "Arnold is the leading indicator of the revenge of the political moderates," says Paul Saffo, a director of the Institute for the Future, a Silicon Valley think tank. The Governor has deliberately created a distance between himself and the more conservative wing of the Republican Party. During the presidential campaigns...
...says Pat Clarey, his chief of staff. "It is kind of fun walking the hallways with him as the cameras go off." Schwarzenegger's mantra to the office staff is borrowed from the movies"Action, action, action." Not surprisingly, a steady stream of celebrities drops by: Clint Eastwood, Tom Arnold, Danny DeVito, Anthony Hopkins, Jamie Lee Curtis. Clarey posts snapshots of the famous visitors on her office wall...
...giant snake. David B. says, "I didn't want at all to do something realistic. I was not interested in making a reconstruction." By taking us to the most fantastic limits of his imagination, David B. has made his family's struggles palpably, powerfully real. --By Andrew Arnold...