I guess this is his 30 pieces of silver...

**Bailey** · 01-25-2013, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by noonwitch

No, I see it, but I also understand why he does it, because it's Jersey. If it were Georgia, he would have to kiss conservative butt.

But then the gov would have have been most likely a conservative. If Christie ran as a liberal then this wouldn't have shocked me but he ran as a right leaning republican so I guess his true colors are showing. He will never get my vote either for reelection or for any higher office.

**Odysseus** · 01-25-2013, 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by noonwitch

When your state gets overwhelmed by a massive storm, and the guy who can provide assistance is from the other party, you kind of have to be nice to him. It's called working together for the better of his constituents.

Except that it never works that way in reverse. Bush begged the governor of Louisiana and the mayor of New Orleans to initiate the request for federal aid so that he could respond, but the governor held off because she didn't want him to look good in the media. Ultimately, they did everything that they could to blame Katrina on Bush, even though the immediate state and local-level responses were glaringly incompetent, because politics trumps doing your job when you're a liberal. Christie went out of his way to complement Obama for doing... well, not much, since the federal response to Sandy consisted of a bunch of Obama photo-ops (which is what passes for leadership today). Meanwhile, his constituents were taken care of by the state, not the feds.

**txradioguy** · 01-25-2013, 02:00 PM

Originally Posted by Odysseus

Except that it never works that way in reverse. Bush begged the governor of Louisiana and the mayor of New Orleans to initiate the request for federal aid so that he could respond, but the governor held off because she didn't want him to look good in the media. Ultimately, they did everything that they could to blame Katrina on Bush, even though the immediate state and local-level responses were glaringly incompetent, because politics trumps doing your job when you're a liberal. Christie went out of his way to complement Obama for doing... well, not much, since the federal response to Sandy consisted of a bunch of Obama photo-ops (which is what passes for leadership today). Meanwhile, his constituents were taken care of by the state, not the feds.

And his promises to cut through red tape and get aid to the people went nowhere as well.

There are still hundreds without power in the area affected by Sandy.

**Bailey** · 01-25-2013, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by Odysseus

Except that it never works that way in reverse. Bush begged the governor of Louisiana and the mayor of New Orleans to initiate the request for federal aid so that he could respond, but the governor held off because she didn't want him to look good in the media. Ultimately, they did everything that they could to blame Katrina on Bush, even though the immediate state and local-level responses were glaringly incompetent, because politics trumps doing your job when you're a liberal. Christie went out of his way to complement Obama for doing... well, not much, since the federal response to Sandy consisted of a bunch of Obama photo-ops (which is what passes for leadership today). Meanwhile, his constituents were taken care of by the state, not the feds.

Noonditch doesn't know the difference between being respectful and kissing his ass. Noonditch forgot the fact that NJ is a BLUE state and wouldn't be forgotten by obama.

**NJCardFan** · 01-25-2013, 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by noonwitch

Christie governs a fairly liberal state-if he was a strict conservative, would he be holding his current position?

He got elected on conservative principles. Taxpayers here love him. He's polling at 69% among registered voters. He's also leading at least 1 poll for president in 2016 even beating out Hillary.

**AmPat** · 01-29-2013, 05:45 PM

Originally Posted by noonwitch

When your state gets overwhelmed by a massive storm, and the guy who can provide assistance is from the other party, you kind of have to be nice to him. It's called working together for the better of his constituents.

Seems to me only liberal dependant states get the publicity and help. BTW, I thought all was good in utopia? SInce I haven't seen any coverage of the Marxist Administration's failures like we did with the daily handwringing over Katrina, I assumed all was instantly made well by Emporer OBlather.

**Bailey** · 01-29-2013, 07:03 PM

Originally Posted by NJCardFan

He got elected on conservative principles. Taxpayers here love him. He's polling at 69% among registered voters. He's also leading at least 1 poll for president in 2016 even beating out Hillary.

which proves my point he stabbed romney in the back to improve his odds in 16, he can kiss the fastest part of my ass when and if he runs for any office.