Another fat pig at the government feeding trough.
Posted on 01/02/2013 12:07:17 PM PST by Hoodat
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is fuming over the House’s decision to not hold a vote on Superstorm Sandy relief package.
Speaking at a news conference Wednesday afternoon, the Republican governor said the only group to blame for decision is the House’s GOP majority and Speaker John Boehner.
Christie said he tried calling Speaker John Boehner four times Tuesday night, but Christie said Boehner didn’t take his call.
Christie says the storm aid measure is not something you “play politics with” when people are suffering. Christie said “our people were played last night as a pawn. And that’s why people hate Washington D.C.”
Christie was just one of several New Jersey elected officials, from both sides of the aisle, who lambasted Boehner’s decision to not hold a vote.
Earlier in the day on Wednesday, Christie and New York Governor Cuomo released the following joint statement on the failure to pass the Hurricane Sandy Relief Package:
“With all that New York and New Jersey and our millions of residents and small businesses have suffered and endured, this continued inaction and indifference by the House of Representatives is inexcusable. It has now been 66 days since Hurricane Sandy hit and 27 days since President Obama put forth a responsible aid proposal that passed with a bipartisan vote in the Senate while the House has failed to even bring it to the floor. This failure to come to the aid of Americans following a severe and devastating natural disaster is unprecedented. The fact that days continue to go by while people suffer, families are out of their homes, and men and women remain jobless and struggling during these harsh winter months is a dereliction of duty. . .”
(Excerpt) Read more at philadelphia.cbslocal.com ...
I disagree, with so much more food now available, the law of supply and demand would dictate that food prices would go down.
“Christie said he tried calling Speaker John Boehner four times Tuesday night, but Christie said Boehner didn’t take his call.”
Copulating with the enemy, just like an election, has consequences, Chris.
There's a lot to not like about Herbert Hoover, especially compared to his truly principled Conservative predecessor, Calvin Coolidge. In some ways, Hoover evolved to a big government advocate when the economy didn't turn around as quickly as he thought it would after the correction of October 1929.
Before he altered his views, Hoover did stand for right-thinking and logic, stating:
Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.
...and to the specific thrust of this thread, before Hoover eventually went soft, he said:
Every time the government is forced to act, we lose something in self-reliance, character, and initiative.
For all of his later faults, that was the Herbert C. Hoover worth admiring. It's a shame that Peter King and Chris Christie don't embrace that sound philosophy just as true today as it was then.
Go exchange some more spit with 0bummer, you FAT BASTARD! Maybe you’ll get what you want, RINO traitor.
Just called Gov Christie’s office and told him to go whine to Obama in Hawaii. The office number is 609-292-6000. I am sure he would like to hear from us. Oh and called King up to and told him to do the same.
...full backing from the media.
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Yeah, through the primaries. Just like with Romney. Hail him through the primaries and demonize him during the election. It’s their standard operating procedure. Same with McCain.
Where was the paragon of Republican Conservativism when the maneuver on the Senate Budget Bill went on????
Typical Chris Christie - all mouth and no reality.
Meanwhile, New Jersey is STILL ranked as # 2 from the bottom as a business friendly state - which is about where it was when he took over.
Just heard the press quote from Christie, laying the blame for NJ not getting more $ ONLY on the House GOP. The nerve of this fat guy! Consequences, Chris, consequences.
In 2008 Oprah was credited with “creating” millions of Obama votes. In 2012 Christie was credited with same... as a result of his late-in-the-campaign cheerleading for Obama.
Christie: demand money from rich democrats, you tool.
Another fat pig at the government feeding trough.
I, for one, would not be surprised if Chris Christie left the Republican Party to become a dem or independent.
Peter King and Crispie Cream can both call Turbo Tim to just print more money.
These aid packages are way out of line, dressed up like Christmas trees, or should I say “Holiday” trees?
Heard today (RL Show??) that the 165+- page bill was handed to the Senate approx 15 minutes before the vote, so in essence, AGAIN, no one read the bill.
When Boner etal got around to reading it FATSO was the last thing on his mind, especially when it was found they ‘gave’ Nascar 70 some mill, money to an algae farm, money to a rum producer etc. and a couple of other zingers, PLUS adding another 3 mill to the ‘vacation’ I was seeing Red - these #’s are probably off but the ‘gist’ is definitely there - Oh signing the Exec Order that raised joebama and other govt workers pay.....
I am starting to get a deep hatred for this BO clown, I will usually just say I don’t agree with ‘his/her’ politics and leave it at that BUT this one is in a league of his own.
That line to Boner about ‘Don’t you even dare think of a ceiling/cap...etc’ is treasonous AND we are supposed to feel sorry for a group that has ‘worked’ something like 14 days in the last 4 months.......
I usually dont read long post, but this one was great and I read every word. Thanks.
Of course! But Christie is such a big sack of crap he doesn’t see it.he’s enjoying the media love too much..Christie isn’t a Republican anyway..he’s a Progressive..believes in basically the same things that Obama believes in thats why he was able to meet with him and have a little love fest with him
Festivus aluminum poles (old Seinfeld reference) and guess who gets the shaft :)
Hey Christie, Obama lied to you.
If that happens I will be the first to celebrate..the GOP needs to purge BADLY the RINOS and the progressives..and the sooner the better
The thrill is gone, huh, Fatboy?
“Christie says the storm aid measure is not something you “play politics with””
It’s not playing politics to load a bill such as this one with un-related pork? To extract an extra amount that can be considered extortion to the taxpayer because the bill itself is too important to be held up because of the amount of opportunistic graft in it. To hell with Christie and King, go to the democrats and take some of your rino buddies with you. Never a hope of controlling spending if we can’t get unrelated pork removed from such important spending. The citizens of the Northeast are being held hostage by Christie, King and all the politicians who do nothing to prevent the ransom of pork spending in these bills and the politicians who add it to the bills. “No help for the truly needy unless we get our cut” that’s the problem. “Taking advantage of a crisis” what a worthless un-principled politician does.
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