tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post6331403440425724305..comments2024-03-28T05:47:44.752-05:00Comments on RIFLES AT DAWN: Have You Heard? Chris Christie is FAT!Tim Morrisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00457723301178870851noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-67741969396498087752011-10-04T06:57:12.183-05:002011-10-04T06:57:12.183-05:00For anyone who would rather limit Chris Christie&#...For anyone who would rather limit Chris Christie's political future, trading on the New Jersey governor's obvious corpulence is not just unfair, it is foolish flirtation with a sympathy backlash. It would be much more effective to weigh Mr. Christie on his actions and his merits.<br /><br />The governor, a darling of the Koch brothers, is a staunch advocate of cutting taxes for the rich. He once lambasted President Obama as "a bystander in the White House" whose proposal to have the ultra-wealthy pay something akin to their fair share "would diminish the success of others."<br /><br />This shortly after Mr. Obama paid him a personal visit -- the president came to the governor -- to make sure New Jersey was receiving the help it needed to cope with widespread flood damage.<br /><br />Mr. Christie's tin ear for public opinion is remarkable. He expressed surprise when he was criticized for using a state police helicopter to attend his son's baseball games, and posed as the aggrieved victim when he was asked to reimburse the state.<br /><br />Mr. Christie has a habit of acting unilaterally and without consultation. His decision to pull out of an interstate railroad tunnel project, to which New Jersey had committed $271 million, was done without so much as a courtesy call to the other participants, even though his action effectively rendered their investment in the project worthless.<br /><br />He is quick with an insult. Notwithstanding his high-handed treatment of the tunnel project, when New Jersey's Democratic senators came up with $38.5 million to replace a railroad bridge, the governor sneered that "obviously they failed" to come up with more.<br /><br />Mr. Christie is an arrogant fellow, always the smartest guy in the room, and makes no effort to conceal his disdain for teachers. He thinks the state's education system is rife with "excess and greed"; and for public employee unions (when it comes to the good of the state, he says, they're only interested in "me first").<br /><br />The governor is openly contemptuous of Senators Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez. When he was a federal prosecutor he tried to damage Mr. Menendez by opening, with much fanfare in the media, an investigation into the senator's alleged dealings with a community group Christie didn't like. The "investigation" proved groundless but took its sweet time going nowhere.<br /><br />Of Sen. Lautenberg he said “All he knows how to do is blow hot air ... So I don’t really care what Frank Lautenberg has to say about much of anything.” He refuses to communicate directly with the senators and won't return their phone calls.<br /><br />The Wall Street Journal reports Mr. Christie promised Meg Whitman, now CEO of Hewlett-Packard, he would stay out of the presidential race -- a promise that was a condition for her hosting a $15,000 (!) per head fundraiser. Mr. Christie is not known for keeping his promises, so it would be no surprise if he chooses to make a bid for the White House anyway.Hieronymous Knickerbockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17595084830114588686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-8746319014263368912011-10-03T18:35:43.640-05:002011-10-03T18:35:43.640-05:00It’s the only remaining form of discrimination tha...<i>It’s the only remaining form of discrimination that you can still get away with</i><br /><br />In your dreams. Age, sex, color, and religion (if you're Catholic or Jewish) are still very popular.<br /><br />I can name a prominent Wisconsin based company which hires ONLY 6'0"+ Nordic males for its sales force (and other high-viz spots.)<br /><br />But we can pretend otherwise....Dad29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.com