No Action "Hero"?

Lately, Governor Schwarzenegger has been sounding like a big baby. Now, I don’t know if he’s being positioned this way because many of the reports have paraphrased his so-called statements, but he’s been using a lot of un-leader-like words:

Schwarzenegger: Feds should be worried about California levees

"They are spending $100 billion in New Orleans right now because they were not acting fast enough. And here is the time for them to redeem themselves, to go and say, 'We made a mistake before; let's not ever make that mistake again.' And again they are missing the boat."

"We must let the president know that we need help," the governor said. "We want to put the pressure on the federal government, because they already have made a big mistake with New Orleans. Here is a chance for them to do really good."

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he's going to complain to President Bush tomorrow about government inaction on his requests for help in repairing the state's antiquated levees. [notice it's “government” inaction as though there are no State responsibilities]

There are a lot of hands held out for Federal $$. What ever happened to STATES standing up and DOING the work for their citizens and not waiting for the Feds to save them? Why does everything get directed and shifted to the Federal Gov’t to DO something? Where’s the State’s self-reliance? Waiting for the Feds means nothing gets done.

Schwarzenegger has fallen into victim-hood mentality; his language is that of a loser rather than winner. He sounds like he’s whining instead of DOING. He should be saying “we can not wait for the Federal gov’t to respond, WE must act. Here is a chance for US to not make mistakes and to take care of our citizens, our state.”

He needs a better script with a hero’s dialogue and lots of action.