Hugh Hewitt (he of the Harriet Miers is super-duper fame) gives some advice to Ahnuld after his outright rejection on Tuesday night: lurch right.
Arnold, please take this advice. What very blue California needs right after rejecting a right-wing power grab is for their mandate-less governor to turn into a Bush clone.
Soon to be Governor Angelides will thank you.
Hewitt is right. Not being conservative enough is why that big loser Bloomberg got trounced in New York.
I certainly hope the GOP wakes up and smells the coffee. No more being soft on torture no more fake compassion. The Republicans need to move farther to the right.
So let’s let the democrat owned legislature raise taxes and continue to deficit spend -
Nissan Motor Co. announced Thursday it is moving its North American headquarters and nearly 1,300 jobs from California to the Nashville area to take advantage of the lower cost of doing business in the Southeast.
“The board of Nissan decided to relocate our North American headquarters, and we’re coming to Tennessee,” Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said at a news conference at the state Capitol attended by Gov. Phil Bredesen and other top state officials.
The headquarters, which has been based in Gardena, Calif., will relocate to Williamson County, a suburban area south of Nashville. . . .
Ghosn cited lower real estate and business taxes as major reasons for the move.
“The costs of doing business in Southern California are much higher than the costs of doing business in Tennessee,” he said.
Randy,
Maybe the Democratic Governor of Tennessee lured Nissan there. But guess what, labor is cheaper in the Southeast. So are property values. Sadly, as the Southeast becomes the repository for lower-skilled jobs, other low-skill employers leave the Southeast as wages there go up and the formerly benevolent employers head for the greener and cheaper pastures of Honduras. The South is then left with the worst of both worlds. They gain cheap labor jobs only temprorarily (until the Third World beckons) and they can’t gain the high-end, high-education jobs because they don’t have the education system to lure them. There are exceptions of course – like the RTP in NC – but most of the South doesn’t have UNC, Duke and NC State flooding a local region with well-educated people. The Nissan headquarters move may indeed be different – this is the headquarters after all. And the area it’s moving to – Brentwood/Franklin – is very well-educated and already wealthy, so the typical “new factory in the South” model doesn’t really apply here. In fact, this is much like Boeing moving to Chicago. High-tax, Democratic Chicago offered a tax package to Boeing to lure it out of Seattle. My guess is Democratic Governor Bredesen did the same in Tennessee. And I bet a lot of the 1,300 employees at Nissan HQ in California are moving to Tennessee.
So let s let the democrat owned legislature raise taxes and continue to deficit spend – >>
What is this ‘democrat owned legislature’ you refer to?