Opinion: Gov. Arnold raps Bush on global warming, prefers California way

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Peering into its secret crystal blog ball, The Ticket confidently predicts that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will criticize the Bush administration Sunday during his appearance on ‘This Week With George Stephanopolous.’

He’ll probably say something like: ‘This administration did not believe in global warming. They just didn’t believe in it or they didn’t believe that they should do anything about it, since China is not doing anything about it and since India is not willing to do the same thing, so why should we do the same thing?’

‘We don’t wait for other countries to do the same thing,’ Schwarzenegger is almost certain to add. ‘That’s what makes America No. 1.’

No doubt George will ask Arnold’s reaction to the recent decision by the Environmental Protection Agency to sit back on new moves against global warming before the end of Bush’s presidency.

‘Well, to be honest with you,’ the California governor is likely to respond, ‘if they would have done something this year, I would have thought it was bogus anyway. Because you don’t change global warming and you don’t really have an effect by doing something six months before you leave office.’

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Actually, ABC released excerpts of the interview, which was taped Friday morning, no doubt because the governor didn’t want to get up early Sunday.

And now you don’t have to either.

-- Andrew Malcolm