Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver talk, but sometimes they forget

Gee, they're just like many married couples, minus the celebrity and millions of dollars. Sometimes they forget to mention to each other that they're going on national TV to say something important.

With California's Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger now scheduled for a prominent speaking slot at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul in 12 days, rumors abound that California First Lady Maria Shriver may make her own prime-time appearance — with her family's Democrats in Denver next week.

The governor appeared ready to put that rumor to rest during an interview with The Times on Tuesday.  “I have not heard her at all mention that,” Schwarzenegger said. “So I doubt it.”

Well, as her husband, he would know. Right?

“Not necessarily,” the governor said.

“Remember, the last time she went to endorse [Barack] Obama, she did it in a way driving up from Palm Springs, she calls me and said, ‘I just talked to Oprah and she’s there and blah, blah, blah and said what do you think? And I said, ‘Go ahead. Do it.’

And she endorsed Obama at a Los Angeles rally.

"Those things happen as much as me going to 'The Tonight Show' and announcing my [gubernatorial] candidacy where she maybe is, you know, I come home and she is flipping out over that.”

“It is kind of more,” the governor said, pausing a moment for the right English word, ”casual.”

-- Evan Halper

Photo credit: Associated Press

Comments

[coolrepublica]

Gosh I love Arnold and his wife.

I think that's great. Too many couples try to live for the other person. They have separate minds and ideas and they live in the moment.

As long as no one announces they are doing Matt Damon on Jay Leno for the other to find out and I think they will be fine.

[Arye Michael Bender]

I too am charmed by the respect Governor Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver seem to have for one another. Great partnerships are measured by a willingness to disagree, while maintaining the underlying respect that implies.

[bill c., Los Angeles]

I'm a liberal and will probably get roasted for this, but I think Ahnuld has done the best job he could do for what may be an ungovernable state. I like him and Maria; I wish him well politically, but of course I hope he leans a little more to the left... :)

They seem to have a good, solid partnership. More people should be like that.

[Inverse137]

I'm a liberal and will probably get roasted for this, but I think Ahnuld has done the best job he could do for what may be an ungovernable state. I like him and Maria; I wish him well politically, but of course I hope he leans a little more to the left... :)

They seem to have a good, solid partnership. More people should be like that.

Posted by: bill c., Los Angeles | August 20, 2008 at 04:50 PM

BillC, he's done an OK job, not the best job possible. It took him too long to realise that sometimes you actually do need to say the "T" word...taxes.

[Eric]

Arnold is the man

[Truth is ...]

Politics is really more a joke for those with power and money.

It's really something for the poorer classes to get upset about, argue, and distract each other from the fact that no matter who's in power ...

The status quo will remain the same.

[NOne]

you left wing liberals are nuts. you're kissing the governator's butt? are your noses brown enough already? He freaking ruined california. All the liberals in this state ruined the once great state of california. Dems and LIbs are raising taxes like crazy that drives all businesses out of this state and to other countries for lower taxes. Thus making you all poor and dependent on govn't, creating bigger govn't and depending on them them more and making their base more powerful. What a perfect solution... the libs politicians are planning more tax hikes with the governator to our already high tax state. Perfect way to screw california to build their bases. Wow..... and here you brown noses kisses the butt of a dumb flip flopping governor who cant' figure out if he's a man or woman or whether he's a DEM or a REP. He's got the state in his hand for a couple of years and where did california go? deeper in debt. 15 billions deficit. He promised to cut spending unlike Gray Davis (Another great lib political hack that ruined our state that went on a spending spree as if money fell out of the sky) but allows it to continue. Illegals drained 15 billion yearly on our state and what did they do? Nothing Absolutely nothing. Instead they want to give these law breakers foodstamp and wellfare. O lord what is going on in our state? When reagan ran for president out of California we were a model state. Now we're a sham state. The libs on the left are killing this great state. It was a wonderful place to live and now... go to LA and see how LA has turned into a dump of a third world country.

[Truth is ...]

Remember, folks, you are only rich if you have five million dollars. And as McCain also said at a private fun raiserr:

"Those making less than $80,000 year are too stupid to understand taxes."

So don't get too upset when Arnold and Maria make out like politics is simply a little game.

For them, it is.

[Nick]

I personally like that Arnold is fairly consistently anti-taxes (or at least anti any new or increased taxes). Copious history has shown that liberal governments (well, to be fair, all governments, but more so with liberal governments) will spend more money than they collect in taxes, always, and the only thing limiting their spending is the amount of taxes collected. The whole idea of raising taxes to help balance a budget is totally bogus and unfounded; the legislature would just spend all the extra money, and more.

Once you realize that, the whole "no more taxes under any circumstances" thing makes a lot more sense, and is in fact the only rational approach to take with our liberal legislature, or any other government that cannot control spending. No more taxes and no pay while we have no [balanced] budget; it's the only reasonable way to deal with the children we have elected to run the state.

[charlie127]

Changing goverment will have to be done by the people when they wake up to the fact that the once great state of ca. is morally and financially broke.

[PRAGUE]

SO REFRESHING THIS PHOTO AS WELL THE REPORT. So much respect for this couple ... their achievements and their challenges. A sparkling example in a world a suffer in gloom. Keep the moon glowing, the mornings bright and the sunsets vivid. From Prague with love!

[Jer]

n0ne, Please run for president... you make more sense then anyone out there talking

[Header]

To NOne:

When Reagan ran for President in 1980, CA had yet to feel the full effect of Prop. 13. The problem you have is one of the tragedy of the commons, in that you don't want to pay taxes, but you still want to have roads to drive on, schools for your kids and lots and lots of prisons to lock the bad guys up. That $15 billion deficit you speak of is systemic - it has been around since BEFORE Davis, and the Republican answer is equally as bad: borrow money to pay it.

The only problem is that we have to pay interest on the debt.

One thing about taxes - no one likes 'em, but everyone likes the programs they fund. If you like State Parks, you like taxes. If you like regulated Morticians and Nursing Homes, you like taxes.

A better idea might be to put lots and lots of $ into education and sex ed., and get the kids off of the street and into productive lives. That also means getting rid of the stupid war on drugs (which hasn't stopped drug use and has only created a criminal class and a bloated prison population). Yeah, it's a 3rd world and you aren't going to stop it. So move to Alabama, or learn to habla espanol, sport.

[keelaay]

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"Copious history has shown that liberal governments (well, to be fair, all governments, but more so with liberal governments) will spend more money than they collect in taxes, always"
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Copious history? Always?? The last liberal president of the United States inherited a huge budget deficit, ended his eight year term with a surplus (in other words spent less than he collected, always) only to have the next conservative president blow it back into a deficit (spending more than collecting, always) in his first term. Copious history? (BTW, both fought a war on foreign soil during their two terms. The liberal won and maintained a balanced budget, the conservative didn't and didn't.)

keelaay

[myriam]

I don't like the programs taxes fund, for the most part. Such as the public schools: they are failing, and to see our hard-won money go into the drain in this way is really a revolting development of the socialistic mindset that is taking over this dumbed-down country. Also, I don't like taxes because they are tyrannical (no one is exempt even if we don't agree with this way of spending our money) and no one, in the end, is made accountable for the money wasted when the programs fail. Each time taxes are increased, it's also that much less buying power we have. Sad most people are so ignorant not to know or understand ths basic fact of economics.

As for Arnold the Muscle Man, I always thought he was a buffoon totally unqualified for the job. Politics is such a joke nowadays. People could have chosen McClintock but they didn't. So it is not for lack of the competent, serious politicians out there that the econony of California is being destroyed.

Arnold is only a Republican in disguise. As his own wife's positions prove. Don't give me the stupid, beatific "oh what a beautiful couple they make... " PLEASE. I can't believe how many people let themselves deluded and fooled. Are you that superficial and shalllow?

Under Arnold's governorship, the budget crisis in California has worsened. He has done nothing of what he had promised to do to solve the problems when he got elected. And the fools who voted for such a fool...

[Myriam]

The idiots who voted for Arnold... He got us into a worse situation than Gray Davis. How can you vote for a cartoon character and expect anything good to come of it?

[ksam]

Yeah, finally people are beginning to realize we need to pay taxes to fund those things that we want that can only be provided if government (us) pays for it. Some kid can't sell me the benefit I get from him being educated. Since he can't stop me from enjoying that benefit. If he could he get more for trying in school and we would all gain. Instead we pay taxes.

By the way, we are not the highest tax State. Where somewhere in the middle. Further, raising the sales tax wouldn't affect local businesss. Especially by one cent.

[myriam]

Oh and something else you should all think about. If Arnold obviously didn't manage to convince his own wife about his positions, how did anyone expect he would a whole legislature???

[bubbles]

They are both gross and I wish they would move away and stop destroying my state!!!!!