On the evidence of his first column in two months, the time off revived him. Tom Friedman Based on And in case you missed this<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> or But Ahnold couldn’t find it in his steroid heart to sign a bill providing an “increase in <\/P>
\nwas back Sunday with a bright thought<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>: “Each time the
\nBush team had to choose between doing the right thing in the war on terrorism or siding with its
\npolitical base and ideology, it chose its base and ideology.” And he had a clever formulation:
\n“While the Bush people applied the Powell Doctrine in the Midwest” [‘overwhelming force
\nwithout mercy, based on a strategy of shock and awe at the Republican Convention’], they applied
\nthe Rumsfield Doctrine in the Middle East [‘just enough troops to lose’].”<\/P>
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\nSlang,”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> Tom Kuntz whipped up a terrific little piece, “Slang Only a Velcroid Would
\nLove.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> It begins: “Hey all you twinkies and snollygosters, can the bafflegab,
\nwill ya? Say ‘spin’ or ‘bounce’ or ‘expectations game’ one more time and we’ll sic the barking heads
\non you, understand?”<\/P>
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\nJohn Broder points out some relevant facts: Besides agreeing to outlaw the force feeding of ducks
\nand geese for the production of foie gras by 2012, the Culifornia governator signed a bill
\n“prohibiting the declawing of cats used in entertainment.” <\/P>
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\nthe state’s minimum wage, saying it would make the state less competitive with its neighbors.” In
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\nHe killed a bill that would have required cities and counties to prepare
\neconomic impact reports on the building of giant Wal-Marts and other superstores. He vetoed
\nstringent new pollution rules for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, saying they would
\nslow growth at the nation’s busiest ports. He knocked down labor-backed bills to stop the
\noutsourcing of jobs and state purchasing. [And] he vetoed a bill to set up a state Web site to help
\nCalifornians find cheaper prescription drugs in Canada.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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