Foobarista:

While you certainly do have points, in that what Arnold is doing is politically expedient when taken from the context of occurring on the Left Coast, he still fails to recognize that what he does there in the environmental arena affects much more than just those in Cali. It would be ideal if what was enacted in Cali would just stay in Cali, but that isn’t the case. He is acting locally, but the effects are national in scope over time. And he hasn’t chosen to take that into account. And that is NOT a pragmatic decision. While he may be scoring local political points on this one, it is costing him and the rest of the Cali political class considerable poliltical capital from the Conservatives and other Environmental Skeptics across the rest of the nation. And this is going to come back an bite him.