Our trainwreck of a “reforming” governor spilled the beans on his broken promise to not raise taxes. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he felt “more comfortable” with sticking it to the California people because he’s “not running for anything.”

Is that also why he bailed on his pledge to “blow up the boxes,” rein in state spending and bring fiscal sanity to Sacramento and instead became the lapdog of the “girlie men” on the left side of the aisle in the state Legislature?

Here’s what he told the LA Times:

Now, I raised taxes, but I’m not running for anything. So I’m more comfortable with it because I’m not running for anything, because I know it’s the right thing. Even though I promised the people of California I’m not going to raise taxes, at the same time I said I’m not going to sign a pledge, because what if there’s an emergency?

Apparently it’s OK to turn one’s back on the people who fired the last governor to make way for Schwarzenegger because he didn’t put his no taxes pledge on paper. And let’s remember that one of the tipping points in the 2003 recall happened when Gray Davis tripled the car tax — which Arnold correctly rescinded. Now the car tax is on its way up, among other taxes and state “fees.”

What a tremendous jackass. And to think I wrote editorials supporting Arnold.

Let’s hope all of the propositions put forward by the budget deal fail miserably. When do we get to replace this joker? Honestly, I’d rather have Dianne Feinstein in charge.

When asked later about a possible run for the Senate, Schwarzenegger said he wasn’t running for anything “until you change the Constitution.” Arnold for president? Now that’s comedy.