Schwarzenegger buddies up to Obama

Can anyone tell me WHY Arnold Schwarzenegger masquerades as a Republican? All I can discern is that he "idolized" Ronald Reagan (I remember that from a Schwarzenegger soundbite a day or so after Reagan's death). And that's about it.

Ah-nold has NO CLUE. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. He has driven his state further into the ground than Gray Davis could ever have dreamed of doing. And this is the man who ran as the candidate to turn the state around, so let's all please recall the current governor we re-elected less than a year ago.

Newsmax reports that Schwarzenegger "wants the Environmental Protection Agency to reverse a 2007 conclusion by the Bush administration that states do not have authority to impose greenhouse gas standards for new cars, pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles." He has sent President Obama a letter pleading for this leadership in this reversal drive (no pun intended, hee hee hee).

So not only is Schwarzenegger making the case for government control over the automotive industry; he is also pleading for additional trumping of states' rights...as the GOP governor of the nation's most populous STATE.

Beautiful. With Republicans like this in power, why do we worry about the Democrats????

UPDATE ON 1/27: I committed an error of laziness or oversight, one or the other, that I need to correct. Technically, in fact, Schwarzenegger would not be trumping California rights; he is pleading for the rollback of the Bush administration's refusal to allow California to enforce tighter fuel emission standards. It is still the wrong decision, but it is not an anti-state's rights issue. My mistake.