Is anyone else unimpressed by Arnold's first few weeks? I know he's only just started, but here are a few points that jump out at me:

• Looks like Arnold will have to, to some degree, break his campaign promise to not touch a penny of California's education funding.
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• Arnold, who was supposed to save our budget, ended up proposing a plan that looks suspiciously like the one Davis was trying to implement!
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• Arnold has decided to break a promise made two days before the election to investigate the flurry of sexual harassment charges against him. It took the heat off him around voting time, and now that he's in, the "investigation" is out. He apparently said something like he feels "it's time to move on." I bet he'd love for us all to move on. I bet Scott Peterson would like us all to move on too!
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Wait, so you mean being the governor of California is... hard? Hmmm, how about that?

I'm not saying that I could do any better, or that Davis did any better for that matter. My point is that Arnold does not appear to be the exception everyone touted he would be. Campaign promises get broken. Arnold is no exception. It looks like business as usual in California's government.

I will say I'm not surprised. Wasn't Arnold notoriously hard to pin down on any issue leading up to the election? Wasn't the biggest complaint that no one seemed to know where he stood on anything? But after all, it's not like people elected him for his brilliant and fresh new stance on major issues. They elected him because "ooh it's the Terminator!" I can only guess that his motive for being so hard to get an opinion from was simple: he was leveraging the election for what it was... a popularity contest, in the high school sense of the term.

Bill Maher had a great take on the subject. Click here to read it.

- Benzilla