Monday, February 22, 2010

Schwarzenegger on his Meeting with Obama

Obama met with the governors today and later met privately with Schwarzenegger. The California governor says the republican call to start from scratch on healthcare is partisan talk:

While Republican leaders in Washington are urging President Barack Obama to start from scratch on a health care bill, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday dismissed the idea as "bogus talk."

It marked the second day in a row that Schwarzenegger strayed from his party's positions.

On Sunday, he defended Obama's economic stimulus plan and chided elected officials, most of them Republicans, who oppose the overall stimulus but are quick to trumpet individual projects in their states that are paid for by the stimulus. Read more at Sacbee