Lamh Foistenach Abu! Posting from my BlackBerry mobile HQ.
Posted on 07/09/2011 10:50:33 AM PDT by Brown Deer
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Lamh Foistenach Abu! Thanks for the ping or I would have missed it as I am not getting his eMails for some reason...
Thanks for the ping!
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Given the hyper partisan, crazy left legislature, McClintock would’ve been no more effective than Arnold.
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Disagree. Chris Christie is faced with a state legislature like that in NJ and he’s making them tear their hair out. He’s not afraid to call their bluff and veto their pet projects, and unlike Arnold when he calls out the union thugs it’s an unscripted mano-e-mano confrontation, not a scripted audience line in a campaign speech.
It’s amazing what a principled conservative leader with spine can do is a Democrat dominanted state.
Chris Christie “A Rotten Bastard,” Top New Jersey Democrat Says
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2744252/posts
Gov. Christie Again Vetoes Tax Funding for Planned Parenthood
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2742707/posts
Christie kibosh: NJ gov won’t sign gay-marriage bill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2740209/posts
Christie goes all Scott Walker on Jersey
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2739472/posts
Christie Wins on Pension, Health Benefits Reform
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2738797/posts
Union leader calls New Jersey gov ‘Adolf Christie,’ compares pension battle to ‘World War III’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2735753/posts
Chris Christie Privatizes Public Broadcasting in New Jersey
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2732222/posts
Christie pulling N.J. out of greenhouse gas pact
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2725443/posts
Chris Christie Hits the Entitlement Mentality Right Between the Eyes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2695595/posts
News.NJ Governor Chris Christie goes after state worker bennies to fund tax cuts & credits
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2678507/posts
N.J. businesses praise Christie’s proposal for $690M in tax cuts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2678501/posts
Christie speaks at antiabortion rally
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2662723/posts
Gov. Chris Christie commutes sentence of man convicted of having guns in N.J. illegally
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2645543/posts
Liberals Howl as Christie Uses Cap-and-Trade $ to Balance Budget
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2642692/posts
Classic Christie: Vows to ‘Punch’ Teachers Unions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2637029/posts
Walking the walk: NJ Gov. Chris Christie to cut 1,200 public sector jobs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2622018/posts
New Jersey Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz Closes After Christie Cuts Funds
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2594592/posts
Gov. Christie proposes elimination of 300 N.J. boards, commissions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2586889/posts
NJ Gov Christie Delivers Brilliant Laceration of Teachers’ Union
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2587084/posts
New Jersey Governor Defies Political Expectations (Christie kicking a*s)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2550869/posts
Deal Reached To Cap Property Tax Hikes In NJ
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2546556/posts
Democrats Surrender to Christie in N.J. Budget Battle
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2536742/posts
Gov. Christie ends practice of reserved tickets going to N.J. officials
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2527469/posts
Chris Christie to teacher: If you don’t like my education budget, find a new job
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2521205/posts
N.J. Gov. Chris Christie swiftly vetoes ‘millionaires tax,’ property tax rebate bills
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2518235/posts
Chris Christie: Fastest Veto Pen in the West
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2518211/posts
Gov Christie to NJ Supreme Court Justice: You’re Fired!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2506404/posts
Christie cutting $65 million for global warming prevention (Eevil Republicans)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2492101/posts
N.J. Gov. Chris Christie plans privatization of as many as 2,000 state jobs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2468881/posts
Gov. Christie Declares “NJ on Edge of Bankruptcy” Christie to freeze $1.6 bil. in NJ spending.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2449738/posts
The Governor Who Roared In New Jersey
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2497852/posts
BTTT
Exactly my point. Again, look at NJ. Their general assembly is every bit as solidly Democrat and idealogically leftist as California. Governor Christie doesn't put up with their leftist cr@p. He's been privatizing hundresds of feel-good liberal agencies, boards, and state jobs. Every time they send him some bloated bill to increase spending, borrow, create new handouts, spent zillions on the envirowacko agenda, fund planned parenthood, promote "gay pride", etc., he vetoes it without blinking, and keeps vetoing it over and over and over again until they finally cave and pass his budgets to decrease spending and support tax cuts.
>> Arnold championed those programs. Some of Arnie's fans refuse to acknowledge those facts and take every opportunity they can to marginalize the conservative. <<
And that is why the freepers who claimed Christie is an Arnold clone are wrong. Saying "tear up the credit cards" in a campaign speech and actually DOING it while in office are two different things. Governors like Christie in NJ and Calceri in Rhode Island have proved the "California is ungovernable and no Republican could have changed things there" myth is wrong. Both those states had Democrat legislatures just as bad as California but their conservative governors we able to do an enormous amount of good.
Another myth that really needs to be put to rest is the "Arnie was a good conservative til the unions stopped his wonderful referendums in the special election". Sure, as if appointing Susan Kennedy was something a good conservative reformer would do. And note that none of the leftist states that DID have decent conservative reformers in power chose to have "special elections" to pass their reforms. Christie didn't quickly write up a list of half-baked ideas and spend millions trying to drag voters out to support it. He used the bully pulpit and took his case directly to the people that the unions were destroying NJ and that's why he's going to dismantle their programs and veto their bills.
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