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meegbear

(25,438 posts)
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 07:10 AM Jul 2015

The Rude Pundit- Chris Christie's Case for President: He Fucked New Jersey Real Good

Yes, it's true, good people of Iowa and New Hampshire. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is really, really shitty at the job he is desperately trying to get out of. Christie, America's angriest flat tire, is touring the bullshit small states that get too much say in who becomes president, with a detour this weekend to play "Who can lick this billionaire's balls cleanest?" in Idaho. He should be asked at every stop along the way, "Your state is falling the fuck apart. What the hell are you doing here when you should be back there making it better?"

A conservative think tank put out a report this week that ranked New Jersey second-to-last in fiscal health, just above Illinois. "The states that rank toward the bottom include states with ongoing structural deficit problems and difficulty achieving annual budget balance, in addition to long-term debt and pension pressures," the report from George Mason University said. And New Jersey has all that in spades, man, with no hope as long as Christie is governor and he refuses to do sane shit like raise the gas tax or fund the pension system because that'll look weak to the other boys and the girl in the GOP locker room. Christie is used to being the one snapping towels on post-shower asses; he ain't gonna stand for getting welts on his cheeks.

Because Christie is devoted to sucking all the dicks, he recently changed his reasoning as to why he vetoed funding for family planning clinics, including Planned Parenthood, in New Jersey for the last five years. Back in 2010, while he was still flying and not too close to the sun yet, Christie said he was doing so to help close a budget gap.

Now he uses it to boost his crazy credentials with evangelical Christians, bragging recently that he had "vetoed Planned Parenthood funding five times out of the New Jersey budget" at a Faith and Freedom Coalition's Jesus Fellatio Fest and Candidate Bondage Carnival. So he was lying when he said it was for budget reasons, and he's lying when he says it makes him "pro-life." The funding wasn't used for abortion services, by the way. It was "for crucial preventative health care for low income women, including gynecological exams and cancer screenings."

Six clinics out of 58 had to close; four were not even associated with Planned Parenthood. Let's hope the 131,000 women served by those clinics appreciate that Christie needs to position himself to the right of Jeb Bush if he has any chance to be president. Priorities, people. You may picture Christie squatting over poor women and taking a pizza shit on them. But he's just telling it like it is or, more precisely, telling it like fundamentalists want to hear.

One last failure for this failure of a leader, of a politician, of a man: Christie proudly brags how anti-drugs he is. If he's president, fuck your legal pot and fuck your state's right to legalize it. In New Jersey, you can tell how much Christie really cares about drug users by the fact that, as horrible as the heroin overdose epidemic has become in the United States, it's three times worse in New Jersey since Christie's been governor. Yeah, there are more people dropping dead from heroin than from "homicide, suicide, car accidents and AIDS" in Jersey. In two counties, more people die from ODing on smack than from pneumonia and the flu combined.

Christie's signed a few bills that attempt to help, but, like so much in his failed administration, he hasn't done enough. Or perhaps the better way to put it is that he did just enough to be able to brag about it to the mythical primary voters, but not nearly enough to make a difference in the very real lives he's harming.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2015/07/chris-christies-case-for-president-he.html

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The Rude Pundit- Chris Christie's Case for President: He Fucked New Jersey Real Good (Original Post) meegbear Jul 2015 OP
Seems to be Scott Walkers reasoning as well. Is he REALLY trying to pass a law so bosses can peacebird Jul 2015 #1
There is somethng very strange going on FlatBaroque Jul 2015 #2
In Republican Reality Land failure as governor means you want to bring your magic to the entire USA bklyncowgirl Jul 2015 #3

peacebird

(14,195 posts)
1. Seems to be Scott Walkers reasoning as well. Is he REALLY trying to pass a law so bosses can
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 07:18 AM
Jul 2015

Force you to work 7 days a week with no days off?

Scott Walker, proven leadership....

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/07/08/sneaky-move-scott-walker-wisconsin-gop-workers-weekends.html

FlatBaroque

(3,160 posts)
2. There is somethng very strange going on
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 09:08 AM
Jul 2015

Every loser Republican is anxious to get in the race. The goofier the better. Why? My guess is that one reason is the change in cmpaign finance laws allows them to keep some portion of the money they raise. So thhe tacit agreement is that every idiot Republican flings as much shit into the process, collects his hundred million or so and goes back to fucking up their regular position. I really cannot think of anothe reason why it has become such a circus. It was not that long ago that Bob Dole was their their candidate.

bklyncowgirl

(7,960 posts)
3. In Republican Reality Land failure as governor means you want to bring your magic to the entire USA
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 10:05 AM
Jul 2015

Jersey's economy is doing lousy compared to other states in the region. Taxes keep going up. They put a cap on property taxes--no problem--the towns just reassessed everyone's property, upwards of course, and now we're paying much more. All his tax cuts (for the rich of course) haven't resulted in the anticipated jobs--far from it. Hell, even the casinos are going bust in this state.

Now he wants to bring his Midas touch to the rest of the country. Yeah right. The guy's so unpopular that I doubt he'd even dare show up in front of a large crowd here--he'd be drowned out by a chorus of booing.

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