Demolition Man
Ten years ago, in 1993, Sylvester Stallone made a movie entitled Demolition Man . He played a Los Angeles super-cop in the late 90s who is framed and sentenced to being frozen in suspended animation.
In 2032, he is revived to solve an unprecedented crime wave. He knows nothing of what has happened in the intervening 35 years. Stallone’s partner is a lady cop played by Sandra Bullock. As they are driving down a LA street, Stallone asks where they are going.
“We are going two more blocks to turn left at the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library, then continue…”
Stallone interrupts her. “What did you just say about a library?” he asks.
“Well,” Bullock explains, “After we passed the 32nd Amendment to the Constitution which allowed a naturalized citizen to become president…”
Stallone interrupts her again. “You mean that guy…” He shakes his head with weary incredulity, waving off the rest of Bullock’s explanation. “I don’t want to hear about it.”
Where did Stallone get his crystal ball? Senator Orin Hatch (R-UT) is already making noises about introducing a Constitutional Amendment just like the one in the movie. That seems far-fetched now — but just a few months ago it seemed amazingly far-fetched that Arnold would actually be Governor of California.
Soon Arnold’s nickname will be Demolition Man. That’s because there’s a good chance he will demolish the entire Democrat Party Machine in California. You saw him on the TV news clips waving a broom at rallies, asking the audience to send him to Sacramento to “clean house”? The name of that broom is called the Forensic Audit .
Arnold has announced he intends to have the books of California’s government audited by an independent major CPA firm. Arnold could call this his New Broom Program, ordering the CPA accountants to conduct not just a basic audit but a full forensic auditing of all expenditures and income of every state agency, department, and branch of the California Government.
A Forensic Audit is not simply seeing if books balance. It follows the paper trail of every expense and income source and checks the receipts . In a state as corrupt as California under Gray Davis, you can be quite sure that hundreds if not thousands of state government employees and bureaucrats, not to mention elected officials, have had their fingers in the till — and they have not covered themselves with records and receipts that hold up under scrutiny.
A Forensic Audit will identify these sticky and crooked fingers. It will cost many millions of dollars — but it will locate and recover more. The New Broom Program would include a commitment to prosecute all cases of fraud and embezzlement at the felony level. Thousands of (mostly) Democrats will end up in jail for criminal embezzlement. The Democrat Party will be seen in the public eye as the party of looting and thievery. It will not recover for many years.
As California’s Chief Executive, Arnold does not need the approval of the Democrat-controlled legislature to conduct a Forensic Audit. By the time it is completed, Arnold will be well on his way to wiping out the Democrat power structure in California — and then comes the rest of the country.
Arnold puts California back in play for GW next November, vastly increasing the odds of Bush’s re-election. The Dems cannot win without the Golden State (the GOP can), so will have to pour in resources desperately needed in other states. Arnold will campaign hard not only for GW but in a host of key Senate and House races, helping to increase the GOP majority in both houses. A lot of the Democrat “Old Bulls” will no longer tolerate being in the minority and retire, driving their party further into long-term minority status.
Rudy Giulani campaigned for Arnold, and in 2006, the favor will be returned when Rudy runs against Hillary for the Senate. Rudy’s defeat of Hillary eliminates her chances of securing the Democrat nomination in 2008.
After shattering the Democrats in California, and helping so many Republicans across the country get elected, the GOP presidential candidate (favorites would be Jeb Bush or Senator Rudy) may well ask Arnold to be his running mate. The Constitution (Article II, Section 1) clearly states only a natural-born citizen is “eligible to the Office of the President” — but there is no such requirement for Vice-President. Gets your brain cells working in overtime, doesn’t it?
We live in interesting times — and Arnold Schwarzenegger promises to make them more interesting still. Sly Stallone must be proud of his prescience.