Arnold says nurse protestors are like "set dressing" and movie "extras"

[Rose Siding]

He's blocked legislation that would improve nurse/patient ratios, so they are getting visible and vocal....

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Schwarzenegger himself is dismissive of the protesters who are becoming a regular part of his political road show.

"They are becoming now more and more part of the set dressing," he said in an interview this week. "It's kind of like the extras when you do a movie and you need extras in the background. That's what they've become. That's fine with me."

http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/12462323p-13318409c.html

Does this meathead ever say anything substantive?

[LostInAnomie]

1. Did Reagen?

Same difference.

[tsuki]

28. I am not a Reaganite, but I never remember him being coarse. n/t

[MichiganVote]

2. Just wait till you or yours need a nurse Buster

[RoBear]

15. My thoughts exactly.

I hope when he does they tell him the union says they can't work overtime. And I hope it's painful painful painful, so he has to beg the "set decoration" to help him. What a waste of protoplasm!

[elehhhhna]

17. hospital "extras" are notoriously late with pain meds for Arnie. i hope.

[Lisa]

25. fetch your own damned bedpan, Arnie!

Who was it who looked after you while you were recovering from heart surgery?

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,974,00.html

[FreedomAngel82]

29. Arnold is

a doofus. He has no respect for people. I can't believe he's linked to the Kennedy family. :silly:

[rainbow4321]

31. Now I see why he hangs w/ Jay Leno...

Cuz Leno has this habit of making really crude nursing jokes EVERY year during Nat'l Nurses Week--example: saying that the nursing shortage would start to effect the porn industry soon <referring to porn woman who dress up like "nurses">...then the following year another tasteless joke. The third time was during a different time of the year <guess he just couldn't wait it out>. I stopped watching the show after the 3rd joke.
Now compare these classless buffoons to David Letterman who had a medical team on his show..the ones who helped him when he had his cardiac surgery...he was also on the cover of Nursing Spectrum magazine w/ the nurses who took care of him.

http://community.nursingspectrum.com/MagazineArticles/article.cfm?AID=2310


Letterman publicly acknowledged his nurses and credited all RNs with being “the heroes of medicine.” His words spoke volumes to RNs like Riley, who is grateful for his praise. “No one ever thinks of nurses as being up on a pedestal,” says Riley. “When Dave said those words on national TV, I don’t think he really knew how much that meant to all of us.” Letterman was honored by the National Association for Health Care Recruitment on July 13, 2000, with the Jane Pauley media award for his positive portrayal of nursing on his return show — one of the most highly watched ever.

[babylonsister]

3. He sounds so condescending.

Instead of trying to make positive changes, he's dismissing the nurses who care for us all in our time of need. Wait til they strike; I suspect he'll change his tune, but that won't negate his idiocy.

[Disturbed]

9. Der Gropennator is a Nazi just like his Dad was.

He calls nurses and teachers "Special Interest" Groups. Well, yes they are special and we need them, yet he treats them as they were second class citizens. The people of CA fucked up when they elected this creep.

[knight_of_the_star]

22. No he won't

He'll just continue to call them "special interests" and such bs like that.

[KT2000]

4. didn't he have heart surgery?

wonder what the ratio was when he was in the hospital.
What a complete ass.

[Warpy]

5. Wait until that son of a bitch has his MI

and yes, it's coming. He's a smoker with a history of steroid abuse.

Nurses are compassionate people, but I'd imagine that pain medicine will be s-l-o-w in coming, due to the shortage of staff, of course.

He probably thinks nurses just wander around with clipboards and chat up young, handsome residents in the vain hope of marrying "up," or are just there to inspire self gratification in "gentlemens' clubs."

He's in for a very rude awakening.

[etherealtruth]

13. The sad truth...

..is that he will never suffer from "poor staffing." The "elite" hire nurses for "private duty". you and I will suffer--- Oh wait, I don't have health insurance so nurse to patient ratio's are irrelevant; I won't receive any care at all.

[Warpy]

14. Private duty nursing went the way of the bustle and buggy whip

I haven't seen a VIP get it since the mid 1980s, and that was Middle Eastern royalty.

The truth is that staffing agencies themselves are shortstaffed, and will send their staff where they'll do the most good. They aren't going to stiff a hospital or nursing facility that's been a goldmine customer to provide a nurse for some whining action figure turned meat puppet governor. It's just not going to happen.

[etherealtruth]

19. OK, I haven't worked as an RN since the 90's...

..but please believe me private duty nursing was alive and well then.
My unfortunate experience with the staffing agencies was that, as with any business, they went where the money was.

I don't doubt that your experience is as you stated---I'm actually happy that that is the case, but maybe it's regional.

I know private duty as I described is currently alive and doing well in Florida.

I don't think it's right, but there really is a major difference for those with "tremendous" wealth and power.

[Warpy]

21. The wealthy go to VIP units

that are often entire buildings in the larger cities. The VIP wing of Mass. General Hospital featured carpets and fireplaces in many of the rooms, but the bathroom was down the hall and the place wasn't staffed any better than the rest of the hospital.

He may get a private duty aide. He won't get a nurse.

[elehhhhna]

18. He's just mad 'cuz they wear pants now instead of those sexy dresses.

[StClone]

6. If he needed a nurse

And they'd treat him like he treats them image the stink the wingers would make!

[NC_Nurse]

7. So he's saying he lives in a fantasyland?

That, I believe.

Here's hoping you're as immortal as you think you are, Arnie. I would hate for you to have to humble yourself and need a nurse.

[Fovea]

8. Why not just pee in a light socket while you are at it

dumkopf!

[Cha]

11. ...

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[napi21]

10. A rep from the nurses was on the Ed Schultz show this past week.

They're really pissed because "they can't give proper treatment" to patients when severly understaffed.

I don't hink Aanold would be mistreated if he were hospitalized. Nurses and Doctors are way too ethical for that! I agree though, that pain killers could be s l o w to finally be administered, and it might be really difficult to hire a private duty nurse. Big shortage, ya know.

[indepat]

12. And someone is becoming more and more bozo-like

[LdyGuique]

16. Due to Homeland Security, etc., there IS a standby plan to draft Medical

personnel. While a "general conscription" type of draft has been soundly turned down by Congress, there are plans that would only require a Presidential Proclamation (Executive Order) to start a "Medical Draft" during a national emergency.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/10/19/news/draft.html

The Selective Service site (sss.gov) has it on "standby," and while it claims that it would require both the President and Congress, that's not entirely accurate it would require both for a full draft, but only a Presidential Order for a specific skills group draft.

Tsktsk -- Ahnold had better worry big time if that happens.

[The Backlash Cometh]

20. The next time Arnold goes into the hospital, we should get him an

actress to play the role of his nurse. He'll try to grope her, of course, but maybe she'll pay him back with a rectal thermometer.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

23. And Maria (FORMERLY a Kennedy)

just smiles. How many relatives are turning over in their graves.

[RadicalMom]

24. If he ever had to wait forty-five minutes for a bedpan, and then another

forty-five minutes for someone to take it away, as I did, because they were so understaffed, he wouldn't even think of not supporting them, much less slamming them.

[tanyev]

26. Let's see...

Which party was it that flew in fake protestors to protest an election in Florida? Which party was it that hired a Hollywood set designer to design the backdrops for all their campaign, I mean propaganda events? Please, tell me more about set dressing, Arnold.

[elshiva]

27. Stupid, Stupid Bunk.

[rainbow4321]

30. See if he says that when he is stuck on a bedpan someday...

and can't get anyone in his hospital room anytime soon to get him off of it...
So how much $$ has he pocketed from the California hospitals??

We had some local hospital execs taking a tour thru some units several years ago and one was overheard to ask out loud why ICU nurses made more $$ than floor nurses since the ICU nurses "just sat there and looked at moniters". Never mind the fact that these "moniter watchers" would be the first in line to try and save their worthless asses....Sounds like Ahnold and these guys would get along quite well.

Hey, Ahnold, when is the last time you went 8 hours into your workday without sitting, eating, drinking anything (which may be a good thing since we are taking away your bathroom use for those 8 hours so you really get the feel for OUR typical workday). Oh, and take away your desk's chair and stand up for about 9-10 hours. And when you get close to quitting time, you get to stick around for an extra 2 hours <like I got to do after MY 12 hour shift yesterday)so you can do some paperwork. And repeat this process every work day.
Then get back with us, OK??

[parsifal_e]

32. what an idiot !!!! n/t

[googly]

33. I will bet any money when Ahnuld will be in a hospital, the nurses

will treat him like a rock star. They will fight over who
gets to attend to him. That is just human nature. Women
adore powerful men. It has something to do with the genes
programmed for survival. A powerful man is much more likely
to result in better protection of a woman's children.

I will give VP Cheney as an example. He is as anti-union as
it gets. And the nurses belong to unions. But every time
Cheney is in hospital, the nurses give him the VIP treatment.
Another powerful man, another set of women programmed by their
genes in human evolution. Can't fight mother nature.

[proud patriot]

34. Buh bye Arnold

:hi: