Posted on 01/19/2011 12:46:45 PM PST by Coleus
I thought that was his problem ~ too much toilet time.
What Upstate really needs is its own state.
Sure wish somebody else would do it.
I agree. And this week they were saying that we were violent for saying that Second Amendment solutions were on the table, we should’a said “Damn right they are...keep cheating on elections and see what happens.”
Really. Because I had wondered what ended Tammany Hall. It feels like the country is now ruled by Tammany Hall. I think that the government over time was infiltrated by SO MANY COMMUNISTS than now the whole bloody edifice is rotten.
Imagine Giuliani as Attorney General. Sigh.
I’m hoping he gives enough OTHER people courage to start barking back against the machine. The only way to win with the media is to refuse to play their game, or dance to their tune. Look at when he was in Florida and they tried to pin the snow removal on him. He was like, screw you, I was in Disneyland with my kids and I wasn’t going to leave and take a flight, which would not have been available, back home for a photo op. This is what they invented telephones for.
That was AWESOME! Take that, Chuckie!
Even better -- Pugnacious retorts like this get good press coverage from the drive by media. If you say it nicely it gets you no traction (when you are conservative)
Yes. Usually, Republicans fall all over themselves trying to avoid controversial positions. And we all know where that has led us.
If only there were fifty men and women like Christie in this country, every state would have a good conservative governor.
a Schumer smakdown is something I would like to see more of on the MSM. That arrogant little weenie has been all over the TV spewing the socialist line.
They are too damn nice. RATS represent people whose livelihood depends on growing government at all levels. They are professionals at making the case for ever expanding government—they have a vested interest in being experts
Unfortunately Republicans are not professionals at countering the expanding government argument. They lack the proper economic incentives to be an effective counter wieght to the RATS. Traditionally, Republican elected officials have been rewarded for “going along to get along” and brining home the bacon to their home districts. That’s why the AGENDA for the past 70 years has been driven by RATS. They are the ones whose existence depends on ever increasing government spending, whether it bankrupts us or not. Republicans have nothing more than a minor impediment to our slide toward socialism. Republicans have been an annoyance to the RATS but nothing they can’t overcome.
And that brings us to the TEA PARTY. THANK GOD FOR THE TEA PARTY!!! We are the people who in fact DO have sufficient economic incentive to counter the arguments of the left—since we are the ones who get the BILL for all this crap. Because we cannot count on our elected representatives to act in our best interest, we must do our own homework and hold the elected officials accountable. But we must understand that Republicans will NEVER be the completre answer, since their personal well-being is generally not tied to fiscal discipline.
Once the markets crashed in 1929 and city finances crashed with them, ordinary people would be arrested on trumped up charges, dragged into court, and professional witnesses would testify against them. They could pay their way out of trouble or go to jail. The climax occurred when ordinary women -- from secretaries to schoolgirls -- were arrested for prostitution by the NYPD, and husbands and parents were made to appear in night court to bribe officials to free their loved ones. It was nothing less than a kidnapping scheme run by the NYPD and the judges. It was also the last straw.
There was a large adversarial press in America in those days, but even the traditional pro-Tammany papers were shocked into silence by the kidnapping scheme. The New York Times, in those days a Republican good government paper, led the charge against the machine.
Thanks to a power play by Judge Samuel Seabury, Cardinal Patrick Hayes, and Governor Franklin Roosevelt, Walker resigned and fled to Europe to avoid indictment.
Fiorello LaGuardia was a liberal Republican who was to the left of FDR on some issues, but he understood that the only way to beat Tammany was to take advantage of the mistakes of the machine and build an alliance of all the factions, Left and Right, that were opposed to Tammany. His fusion ticket swept him to power in November 1933.
At his inauguration, his first words were in Italian: "E finita la cucagna!" Loosely translated: "The free lunch is over."
LaGuardia received support behind the scenes from FDR, and Robert Moses, who controlled the infrastructure spending of the region from the various quasi-governmental posts he held. He received support in front of the scenes from federal special prosecutor Thomas Dewey, a Republican put in place by FDR to clean up the city. As the former Manhattan Borough President, LaGuardia knew how the levers of power worked and where the bodies were buried.
But his greatest gift was the playbook. When someone from Tammany got caught, or said or did something stupid, LaGuardia was on it within minutes. The papers knew they could get something quotable from the mayor, and he never let them down. His gravelly bass/baritone voice with the thick New Yawk accent became instantly recognizable on the city's radio stations. He was a star, he was beloved, and his combative stance on everything set the tone for other reformers in that section of the country.
By the time LaGuardia left, the Democratic Party of New York City had to come up with a different governing paradigm, as Tammany Hall was finished. The irony is that Rudy Giuliani came into office without a direct program of smashing that new paradigm, but he smashed it anyway. Since Giuliani left office, the Democratic Party of New York City has been unable to elect a mayor. They will continue to be unable to elect a mayor until they come to terms with what Giuliani accomplished, and that experience will stick in their collective craws.
This is what makes Christie so much fun to watch. If you attack him, you had better have your facts straight, or he will gut you like a mackerel. Even if you do have your facts staight, he will still gut you like a mackerel. This is all the result of the work LaGuardia did nearly 80 years ago.
If you could get Christie to do that, there are very few of the GOP “girly men” who would have the cajones to sign up for it.
The video is hilarious and will shut Schumer up. He has no answer to this. But like the Democrat schemer that he is, he will plot revenge
You are a scholar
At least I know about that book. I’ll never get around to reading it...Maybe some day.
Despite the Great Depression America was on an upward trajectory in those days. As Rush Limbaugh has said, we built major dams in the West during the Great Depression. The US Gov’t would totally eff up such a project if they tried it today. But the eco-wackos and their lawyers would prevent it from being built in the first place
Looks like Chuck You/Chuckie Cheese Schumer got a taste of his own medicine and won’t be knocking Christie for a while... Too bad Schumer is in the news every Sunday with his stupid press releases...He’s full of hot air with no substance, just a waste product.
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