Arnie as TR?

LEADERS & REVOLUTIONARIES: “Arnold Schwarzenegger: The green Governor experiences his Teddy Roosevelt moment,” by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Time, 14 May 2007, p. 75.

Man, do we need a Teddy Roosevelt right now: somebody who pivots us from our 20th century mindsets (to include the Boomer politicians who plague us in DC) to our 21st century problems.

Best line:

A true fiscal conservative [and a Republican too! Sorry, couldn’t help that.] with a deep commitment to California’s future, the Governor regards environmental injury as deficit spending--loading the cost of this generation’s prosperity onto the backs of our children. Schwarzenegger believes that good economic policy, over the long term, is always the same as good environmental policy.

What Kennedy skips mentioning is how hot Arnie is for market-based solutions.

But Progressivism, I guess, looks for bloat where it can find it, and today that’s more in the government than in business.