Christie parrots leftwing talking points to attack Ted Cruz

RedState ^ | June 15th, 2015 | streiff

[SoConPubbie]

Just what we need. A squishy (or fluffy, depending upon how you view cellulite) northeast governor considering a run for the presidency visits Iowa and uses talking points lifted directly from progressive propaganda to attack Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100%.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie took aim at 2016 Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) on Friday, accusing him and other lawmakers of “hypocrisy” over federal disaster relief.

“We have Sen. Cruz, who voted against Sandy relief. Now he says he’s got floods in Texas. He says, ‘Hey, we need some help down here in Texas.’ It’s great, right?” Christie said in the early-voting state of Iowa, according to CNN.

Christie similarly criticized Colorado lawmakers who opposed federal disaster relief following Superstorm Sandy but then sought relief after major flooding in their state in 2013. Sandy caused significant damage in New Jersey and along much of the East Coast.

This nonsense has been floating around the left for a while and, like so many egregious lies, it has a grain of truth that makes it plausible to nitwits. So, yes, New Jersey was hit by a major hurricane, Sandy, back in 2012. Christie celebrated by hugging Obama as Mitt Romney was running for president. For what, we’re not really sure. The hurricane hit New Jersey on October 28 and an aid bill wasn’t passed until January 29, 2013. And Ted Cruz really did vote against the aid package. Let’s turn to Heritage Foundation for some insight:

Apart from that, much of the $60.4 billion in requested emergency spending is aimed at either mitigating future events and repairing or replacing federal assets.[5] Of Obama’s requested items, less than $23 billion of the $60.4 billion involves addressing emergency damages sustained by state and local governments, private-sector businesses, and individuals.

As a point of perspective, with the vast majority of homes and businesses privately insured, the total cost estimate for the entire private industry is just more than $20 billion.[6] Why is the federal spending proposal three times as large?

Yes, you read that correctly. Not only did the bill not pass until 91 days after the event (by contrast the Katrina relief bill passed 11 days after the event) but 2/3 of the bill was simply pork barrel spending that had nothing at all to do with disaster relief. It was spending that was bootstrapped into a “must pass” bill in order to avoid scrutiny.

This is not to say Ted Cruz is above criticism. But if the best Chris Christie can do is regurgitate DailyKos talking points he needs to reconsider his qualifications to be president.

[SoConPubbie]

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[SoConPubbie]

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[Tijeras_Slim]

When Fat Boy needs new material, he can find some here.

[cripplecreek]

This whole thing is starting to look like a left wing set up.

Obama pushed the bill only for democrats to turn it down and start demanding bribes

[InterceptPoint]

[RitaOK]

Poor Christie. What a reach.

I think there is plenty of material out there about what a bloated scam this “relief” bill was from the beginning. And everybody knows it.

Cruz was fluent in explaining all about it at the time and both sides of the media picked up on the “add on’s”.

Truth will win out on this one, because there was an actual list of the unnecessary riches packed in the relief bill.

[VideoDoctor]

About the ONLY thing left to do with Christie is to paint “Goodyear” on his a$$ and send him up.

[napscoordinator]

Neither one will be our nominee thankfully.

[nikos1121]

Didn’t Cruz have the courage to tell Iowa farmers the alcohol subsidies were not right for serveral reasons? How about fatso, what is he saying?

Cruz has been virtually 100% on everything since day one in the Senate. He’s not afraid to say the right thing.

[trussell]

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[SaxxonWoods]

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[SoConPubbie]

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[trussell]

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[conservativejoy]

“About the ONLY thing left to do with Christie is to paint “Goodyear” on his a$$ and send him up.”

Now that Funny!:):)

[drpix]

[conservativejoy]

Just noticed your tagline. Here’s a few results you may not have considered.

Wisconsin is currently 50th in new business start ups. It is 40th in job creation. Walker’s WEDC lost 2 jobs for every one job created for a net loss of -7000 jobs.

Wisconsin has a projected 2 billion dollar budget deficit for this fiscal year.

On top of that he has a potential federal investigation into whether WEDC was used as “Pay to Play” for Walker donors. Couple that with the ongoing investigation into Campaign Finance violations and I’d say the Dems are salivating to see Walker on the ticket.

[T. P. Pole]

Speaking of parroting leftwing talking points - “Wisconsin has a projected 2 billion dollar budget deficit for this fiscal year.”

[conservativejoy]

Link to article Amid presidential campaign, Walker's Deficit Balloons to 2 Billion Written by Louis Weisberg, Staff writer Thursday, 29 January 2015 08: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will have to plug a roughly $280 million budget shortfall by the end of June, and the state faces a two-year deficit that could be as large as $2 billion, based on new estimates released from the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau. When Walker took office in 2011, the state faced a roughly $3 billion budget shortfall, based on agency requests. Walker declared that the state was “bankrupt” then, an assertion that was supported by the media. Somehow, there’s no mention of “bankruptcy” in the right-wing media this time around. Walker used the 2011 deficit as an excuse to dismantle public unions, an action that was high on the agenda of right-wing groups such as the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity. His Act 10 forced public workers to pay more for their health care and pension benefits and ended nearly all their collective bargaining rights. He made deeper cuts to education than any other governor in the nation, including cuts to public schools, the University of Wisconsin and technical colleges. He also cut the state workforce, taking millions of dollars in income out of the state’s economy. Over his first term, Walker turned down hundreds of millions of federal dollars for expanding Medicaid, building high-speed rail and expanding high-speed Internet service in the state. Those were among the decisions that put the state on the slowest track in the region for job creation. But Walker’s Act 10 brought the largest demonstrations to Madison in decades, making him an instant sensation with the tea party acolytes Fox News. Now Walker is using his fame to mount an exploratory campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. The governor has spent a great deal of time since his re-election pulling together his presidential campaign, visiting other states and raising funds. The latest budget figures were released just a day before Walker joined other GOP presidential hopefuls at separate events in Iowa and California. Democrats renewed their criticism that Walker is distracted by his political ambitions and instead should be focused on fixing the state’s budget problem. “The Scott Walker claiming that he cut taxes and balanced the budget faces a different reality at home,” said WisDems communication director Melissa Baldauff in a press release. “While Walker is campaigning in Iowa and promising caucus voters he’ll be back there soon and often, Wisconsin is facing a $2.2 billion budget deficit for the next biennium that is well on its way to $3 billion and higher. Worse, the state is expected to end the current fiscal year with a $283 million shortfall.” Baldauff continued: “Instead of bragging to Iowans about how he busted unions with an unnecessary budget repair bill in 2011, Walker needs to start talking to his Republican Legislature about a budget repair bill right now to address this staggering deficit. The $283 million shortfall for this year is more than three times the $79 million threshold in state law to trigger a budget repair and is more than double the amount of the deficit Walker used as justification to pass his contentious Act 10 legislation. Wisconsinites need to start hearing real, serious solutions from Scott Walker about how he will close this deficit without gutting critical services or raising taxes on the middle class.” Walker will not release an emergency budget plan to balance the $283 million shortfall for the year that ends June 30, his spokeswoman Laurel Patrick said in an email to The Associated Press. The state constitution requires the budget to be balanced, meaning that savings will have to be found over the next five months to make up the deficit. Walker’s deficit will likely spur deep cuts across state government, which would please conservatives, but make it difficult for him to follow through on additional promised tax cuts. Walker and Republican legislative leaders have stressed for weeks that difficult decisions lie ahead. Wisconsin’s two-year shortfall hits about $2 billion when state agency requests — which will certainly not be filled in full by Walker or the Legislature — are taken into account. The budget will be about $650 million short by mid-2017 just to continue spending at current levels. Walker is set to release his roughly $68 billion, two-year budget on Feb. 3 and the Legislature will make changes to it over the next several months. Co-chairs of the Legislature’s budget committee issued a statement attributing the budget woes to the $2 billion in tax cuts passed during Walker’s first term, which they supported. Large cuts went to the wealthiest Wisconsinites, while cuts for the middle class were minimal and taxes for some poor residents increased under their plan. The Associated Press contributed

[T. P. Pole]

Like I said, parroting leftwing talking points. You link to WisconsinGazette. Did you look at their logo? "Progressive" and "Alternative".

I sure hope this isn't the conservative Wisconsin paper you said you subscribed to.

Let me help you a little. You said "deficit for this fiscal year."

Even this liberal rag gets it right - "Wisconsin’s two-year shortfall hits about $2 billion when state agency requests — which will certainly not be filled in full by Walker or the Legislature — are taken into account."

My son wants a $100 a week allowance. I give him $5. Oh no! There is a $95 deficit.

Another kind suggestion - learn paragraphs.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I hope Chris Cristie runs because I want to see the attack ads with his face on the character F@t B@st@rd from the Austin Power movies!