Schwarzenegger: Tea Party ‘Not Going To Go Anywhere’

Hmmmm…………wonder if Arnold has any aspirations for political office or appointments with the Democratic party. Is he the next Arlen Specter??
If he is a Republican, let’s eat our hats!!
He is transparent …….opportunist.

I’m angry that so many in power are blind to what is making regular, every day people stand up and say stop the wild spending, stop the far left take over of my govt, stop the bloated health care “reform” that is another budget busting entitlement that will force taxes to go up and rationed health care. Thank you, Republicans!! Thank you for stopping a far left agenda that too many didn’t see coming because the media never vetted this president, a man who can’t see beyond his teleprompter.

LOL @ harley. Whatever party is in opposition of a party that is in power AND TANKING in polls is of course going to say no to everything they do. You libs did the exact same thing when Bush was in power. You opposed EVERYTHING and were the party of no. Never did I see ABC have a roundtable talking about them though. And btw, Arnold is a “RINO” He only called himself one because the guy he went against was a Dem(Gray Davis) And I am from California.

Arnold seems to be the last of the GOP moderates, who thinks with his head instead of toeing the party line. He’s right that the Tea Party is going nowhere, given it is just an outpouring of anger and hate with no ideas, plans, etc. to help the nation. He’s right that the GOP is currently the Party of No, given they still have yet to bring forth ideas and solutions at meetings, conventions, etc. to help the nation. All the GOP do these days is just flaning the flames of anger, hate, and rhetoric.
Just too bad the GOP will not listen to go level-headed people like Arnold. It’s sad that moderates are being forced out of both parties, and we are headed toward a future where there will be no compromise between the parties. :(

Huh… I’m sorry, but as Indy, I do not see what you see. If this was really a *real* party, they’re not organized to form a party. Most of them spew out hate and rhetoric with nothing to say regarding ideas, plans, etc. to help the nation. Furthermore, if these people are real, why do they bother listening to far-right people like Palin and Cheney who are clearly GOP.
To really form a true change, you must really break from the past, form new leaders, make new ideas and plans, etc. Embracing Palin and Cheney is not a break from the past. All the anger and rhetoric I hear is not making new ideas and plans.
So I’m sorry, but it’s clear to this Indy that the Tea Party is really going no where. All I see is the same old, same old hate and anger that will end with the ‘revolving door’ solution – vote one party in, vote the other out. It’s clear *both* parties are useless these days, so why bother to continue using the ‘revolving door’ solution?

GWP – you are correct in that the tea party is not a party, but to categorize it as a hateful group is a not accurate. Who is embracing Cheney and Palin? Some may, but plenty don’t. There are many solutions that the people within the tea party movement are espousing so you it isn’t all rhetoric and anger as you suggest. Smaller government, fiscal responsibility from our elected officials, lower taxes to stimulate business growth – these are basic principles that are being promoted by tea party people around the country. I must agree with your ending statement about the revolving door solution – it is not working. It’s up to us to elect officials, regardless of party, who represent our values and, if they don’t, we need to hold their feet to the fire.

ConservativeWoman, clearly you have read about Palin speaking to that Tea party convention a few weeks back? I do agree that that 600 should not represent all, but if these 600 embrace Palin, why are they call a Tea Party?
Local government is good and all, but it is the state and national government that hold most of the power. So far, most people are *not* using their heads at all to vote in people that represents their ideals.
Take last year’s NJ governor race. I know that this race was simply a revolving door with the Demos voted out and the GOP voted in. Nothing more. As a resident of this state, I knew voting for the GOP will not solve anything, given the candidate was not giving out ideas, solutions, etc. Yet despite the present of a third candidate (Daggart), most people voted Christie in, given they thought he was the ‘less of two evils’. It’s sad to read most people in my home state just can’t think to vote with their heads, especially if there was a good third candidate in front of them! (I did voted for Daggart. Least he offered solutions at the only TV debate, while the other two butted heads.)
So as much as I agree with you that we, the People of America, have to hold our officials accountable, how can we do this if a person does not hold his/her promise? There’s no third party, the GOP and Demos are both slaves to the big corporate businesses, and who ends up being hurt? Us.
So in the end, the revolving door will continue to spin between these two parties. Local actions as you said are good, but unless there is a true *national* organized Tea Party that embraces niether GOP or Demos, I fear there will be no real change.

Yeah Arnold we need more regulations to add to the 75,000+ pages of federal regulations already, and we really need another tax when in 2006 alone businesses spent over 6 billion hours struggling to comply with the complex tax code at a cost of 156 billion in lost productivity. And then you have the cajones to wonder why we all just wish you would stay on vacation.

Sensons, you’re kidding, aren’t you? The comment about Arnold being sensible? That was satire, wasn’t it? Because regardless of whether he’s right about the Tea Party, the man is a dolt. He makes us Californians long for the bold leadership of Gray Davis.
The Tea Party is exactly what many in this forum (?) have called it: an angry expression of dissatisfaction with the current state of govt. They’re not a party, per se, and while their unhappiness speaks to independents and growing numbers of centrists in both parties, they’ll go no farther than this, because they’ve been co-opted by the socially conservative righties. Nice try, Joe Farah, but we don’t want the lunacy you’re selling.
But the fact is that we cannot continue our current economic course, because it is simply not sustainable. Like it or not, Lefties, The State can’t continue to rob the productive among us in an effort to satisfy some adolescent, flower-child notion you have that everyone can be made happy and all our problems can be solved if we just throw enough money at them. We are headed for certain bankruptcy if we don’t come to our senses, and soon…

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was dismissive of the Tea Party movement in a “This Week” exclusive interview with Terry Moran. “The Tea Party is not going to go anywhere,” >>>>>>> Lets TOSS THIS BUM OUT. His State is a Financial DISASTER what a great moron to listen to.

Arnold should go back to where ever he came from…..MORON!!! He is one confused individual!!!!

It was OK for the last admin to trash the dollar, start an unnessarry war and bankrupt our country. This one is stuck with trying to fix it. And as long as the tea party movment want to embrace Cheany and Palin, they will never be of any use.

Yes, I’m familiar with Palin speaking at that convention, but as you say it was only about 600 people which is a tiny portion of the entire movement. A movement as large and growing as the tea party is going to be comprised of many ordinary people and also factions of various sorts. Indeed there will always be some who struggle to gain power and take leadership, but a true grassroots movement is one of the people with no defined leader.
I wish I had all the answers for holding our politicians accountable, but let’s take Christie as an example. Full disclosure: I grew up in NJ and left a while ago, but not a NJ basher and want to see it succeed. He’s already begun to make some painful but necessary changes in NJ. He is essentially doing what he said he would do and if he goes soft, he’ll need to be held accountable. Okay, here comes the revolving door again. But, what if he succeeds? As a Daggett supporter, of course you are disappointed that your candidate didn’t win, but how do you feel about the steps Christie has taken so far?
And isn’t it a revolving door if we elect a third party candidate? Can’t they disappoint as much as anyone? A real Tea Party “party” or any other third party is probably doomed to fail in our well entrenched two party system. I’d like to believe it was possible to change that, but don’t see it happening any time soon.

tea party,grassrootrn the radio and tv offs millionaire newscaster,oxymoron—yes insite the working class man who will not make a million dollars in his lifetime while you make 5 million a year sounds like vested interest to me. stop being pawns think for yourself tu rn the radio and tv off. level the playing field see if these newscasters will get out and rub elbows with for reasons other than ratings. its all about the dollar.

Good advice huh people? From a guy who bankrupt his own state and we the rest of the nation bale them out 2 or 3 times a year.

Arnold is the terminator – he set back and watched the termination of Califronia.

Could be right.
Hey Arnie, how smoothly are you running the California government??
Looking good, kid.
I’m going to listen to this guy, really.

Accusing the tea party of hate is silly. unless you are talking about hatred for out of control spending, at unprecedented levels, that are going to lead to impoverishment and are increasingly leading to being indebted to China, yes, then you are correct. these are normal people who are fed up with government that does not care for a healthy America, but only for political victories.
You folks on the left hurl some pretty amazing race based commentary and get away with it. You would think we haven’t moved forward, but we have. Look at who’s President! Now stop the racism Leftists. And love your country not your party.

Yes, we all need to hear the valued opinions and observations of the worst Governor in America.

It sure sounds to me like Arnold isn’t paying attention to very much. The state is a mess and the person to blame is Arnold, funny that he can’t understand that. It’s too bad that the politicans have such a distasteful attitude towards the people they are supposed to represent.

They should be helping the current administration fix Americas problems, but they are too busy planning for the NEXT election.

Hey, Arnold was for the Tea Party before he was against it. Is it any wonder that California is like living in a bowl of Granola; what ain’t fruits and nuts, is flakes.

pam…let me ask you something. Where were you “regular every day people (who are ‘so angry now’) when the Republican Party under the Bush administration was spending money like a drunken sailor, increasing our debt level, getting us into a war that we didn’t need to fight (and how much has that bonehead move cost us)? Seems like to me your “anger is misplaced and very, very hypocritical” – just like your Party.

This coming from one of the number one targets of the movement…
It’s all about the RINOs and they are going down in flames in 2010!
What a girly man!

The party of no.
No new jobs.
No fulfilled promises.
No ability to lead.
No transparency.
No telling the truth.
No trust in America.
No pride in America.
No new ideas, just old socialism.
Yes, the Democrat party of NO.

Hello 1978 – you youngins, had better strap it on.

The Tea Party is not a movement, it is a groundswell of the American people tired of being lied to by the government at all levels of this society. Unless it is co-opted by a particular group it will continue to gain support and will be a factor in any future elections.

Arnold is a RINO. If we didn’t know that already, he totally gave himself away. He referred to the Republican Party as “they” not “we”. He doesn’t consider himself one of “them”.

You GOP’s better listen 2 Arnold, cuz if Palin runs 4 that 3rd Party (the peabrains aint lettin’ someone w/nobrain run right), She’s the 21st century Ross Perot(which is a good thing)!!!!

After studying months of anti government comments and watching the growth of the anti tax…the so called tea bag movement.. (I’ve now had enough)
I will continue to belive that America is heading for another civil war caused by exploding racial tensions, a growing angry populace that believes in states rights,no taxes, laissez faire free markets and
“freedom,” and those citizens who believe in Federalism, social safety nets and fair taxation…..After all americans still belive that war will solve conflicts of interest.
Hatred towards the federal government took a turn rose to a new level when an angry upper income level middle aged man crashed his plane into an IRS building last week.I fear this will not be the last but the beginning of these horrible events,that might invoke other angry people to become “martys,” for the anti tax lobby.
After 7 years of war, America is broken and bankrupt and nobody has the foresight or leadership to unite this once great country and move forward in this new century and compete in the new global market place.
EngChina.

his state invested in the ‘financial products’ that were developed under the bush administration and thought what they were buying into was what they said, triple ‘A’ rated securities. they are like every other bank, and yes, state government, foreign government that invested in US financial products that were actually a huge scam and that’s why his state is broke. If we had some regulations of our financial markets none of this would have happened. He lost money just like your 401K investors did.

Schwartzenegger’s hands are tied in California. The worthless assembly members block him at every turn. The politician’s in this state have spent and given away tax dollars all the while assuming that it would always be there for them to spend. Immigrants in the thousands upon hitting the American shores scrambled to reach California for the late great gold rush..the best paying Welfare in the country. As for his dismissive comment about the tea party, it suggests to me that he can’t stand the thought of someone else succeeding where he cannot.

Has anyone seen Palin give back that $100,000.00 she suckered from the tea party group? The $100,000 she stated she was going to “give right back.”

Way to go Arnie! Way to stick to your guns and not simply repeat the Party of No’s position! Arnold to the GOP: You’ve been TERMINATED! LOL!