A Message From Lucianne  



Now More Than Ever
Get Your Eagles Up!
Lucianne Tees - in
Black or White
Click to Buy

































   
 
Home Page | Latest Posts | Links | Must Reads | Update Profile | RSS | Contribute
Register | Rules & FAQs | Search | Post | Contact | Logout | Forgot Password


How Christie is blazing a path
straight down political middle

Daily Record [Parsippany NJ], by Michael Symons

Original Article

Posted By:JoniTx, 2/25/2013 11:20:12 AM

TRENTON — For a man who championed the Republican brand as keynote speaker at its national convention last year, Gov. Chris Christie has been spending a lot of time making nice with Democrats. Most famously, Christie was complimentary of Democratic President Barack Obama’s response to superstorm Sandy just before last year’s election. He then almost as famously ripped House Speaker and fellow Republican John Boehner about playing politics with federal storm aid. Early on, his re-election campaign has consisted of endorsements by two unions and two Democratic mayors, as well as fundraisers in Hollywood and Silicon Valley.

  

Post Reply  

Reply 1 - Posted by: Coy860, 2/25/2013 11:24:45 AM     (No. 9194959)

Middle of the road man make heap big
road kill.


Reply 2 - Posted by: JimS, 2/25/2013 11:26:35 AM     (No. 9194966)

Yes, Christie is certainly Leftist Lite.
(Though using the word "lite" in the same sentence with Christie is a contradiction.)
He is pro-government, pro-nanny state, and pro-Christie (first and foremost)


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: tisHimself, 2/25/2013 11:27:17 AM     (No. 9194970)

An adequate VP if a genuine, nonrove nonbush conservative were to head the ticket.

A thoroughly dangerous man if he chose to run as a democrat.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Ribicon, 2/25/2013 11:30:17 AM     (No. 9194975)

Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani being considered "moderate" shows how incredibly successful the 2 mainstream parties have been in moving us ever leftward over the past 50 years or so.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Yosemite Sam, 2/25/2013 11:38:49 AM     (No. 9194997)

When you are that fat, you need to stay in the middle.


Reply 6 - Posted by: rlwo, 2/25/2013 11:44:48 AM     (No. 9195014)

If we nominate this pig, I will be sick. He needs to learn to take care of his health before foisting himself on us. I also don´t like his big mouth.


Reply 7 - Posted by: antiquegolf, 2/25/2013 11:46:09 AM     (No. 9195017)

christie´s pathetic keynote speech at the GOP Convention where he talked exclusively about himself confirmed that he is just a big fat liberal. Liberals, notably, zippy and his wifey, think of everything in terms of themselves. That´s because liberals rarely advance beyond a mental age of 7 --- the age of reason.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: lylacat, 2/25/2013 11:48:42 AM     (No. 9195029)

Christie is history; he will no longer have any position in the Republican party. I no longer like this man.


Reply 9 - Posted by: Pros7767, 2/25/2013 11:49:30 AM     (No. 9195033)

He handed Obama the election with the Sandy flyover. I believe in retaliation for not being picked VP. He will never get my vote for President.


Reply 10 - Posted by: Rakasha, 2/25/2013 11:49:39 AM     (No. 9195034)

#1, You´re bad.

I´m laughing, but you´re bad.


Reply 11 - Posted by: Teleologicus, 2/25/2013 11:58:53 AM     (No. 9195067)

Christie is not sound on Islam. He thinks it is absurd and bigoted for Americans to have any concern whatsoever about Muslim judges in American courts.

As much as anything, he is notorious for his bad manners and rude behavior towards people he doesn´t like. Now the Leftist mainstream media seems to be hyping him. The whole business is very strange.

This is not the man to lead the Republicans out of the political wilderness. That anyone would so much as dream of such a thing is a symptom of the trouble we are in.

"The political middle," of course, is a euphemism for liberal and Leftist values. When Leftists use words, the words mean precisely what they choose them to mean. In Leftspeak, terms like "compromise" and "bipartisan" have meanings not found in the dictionary. The same applies to "moderate" and "the political middle."

Oddly, just about everyone but the Leftists themselves recognizes these alternative meanings perfectly well.


Reply 12 - Posted by: tangerinedream, 2/25/2013 11:59:26 AM     (No. 9195071)

#10 You´re right!
#1 Thanks for the brightest spot in my day so far!!!!!


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: artman1746, 2/25/2013 12:04:34 PM     (No. 9195085)

The problem is that the "middle" today is compromising with outright Marxism. "A little leaven spoils the whole lump" comes to mind.

Leftists are happy to get "compromise" from "moderates". Because it still assures their agenda will continue to march on even if little by little. They´re content to take small steps when their control is limited and big leaps when they have the power. What they like about Obama is he is the first outright Marxist as president. And they are determined to push as hard as needed.....whether constitutional or even unlawful. Until we accept this fact the nation is doomed.


Reply 14 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino, 2/25/2013 12:11:39 PM     (No. 9195110)

For those of you not familiar with Joisey newspapers - - The Record is an ultra-extreme leftist rag - - possibly even to the left of the NY Times.

It makes the old Soviet Pravda and Castro´s Granma seem neutral and honest by comparison.

Just so you know.


Reply 15 - Posted by: ROLFnader, 2/25/2013 12:24:43 PM     (No. 9195146)

If Chris Christie is the GOP nominee in 2016, I think I´ll write in David Gergen, instead ,as a protest vote.


Reply 16 - Posted by: Freeloader, 2/25/2013 12:24:46 PM     (No. 9195147)

What´s not to like about "New Jersey Fats"? Agrees with 98% of the Democrat Governor of New York´s policy positions, thinks having radical Islamist judges in "The Garden State" is "groovy" and enjoys the 100% backing of Uncle Karl, who says he "can´t miss" in 2016.


Reply 17 - Posted by: Lucky4, 2/25/2013 1:10:38 PM     (No. 9195247)

He certainly has turned out not to be who we all thought he was at first.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: GOPJihad, 2/25/2013 1:17:16 PM     (No. 9195256)

The funny thing is, all he has to do is see the path "blazed´ by John McCain to understand how this all works.

He´s the darling of the elite media as long as he´s there to scold the conservatives. As soon as he possibly threatens a Democrat for national office, inevitably the headlines and elite media talking points will echo "What happened to the Christie (I, We, All, Everyone, etc.) Loved? Chris Christie has moved to the hard right to the disappointment of many."


Reply 19 - Posted by: JAN, 2/25/2013 1:30:37 PM     (No. 9195292)

Considering he was blasting the TV show Jersey Shore, he sure has morphed into Mr. Jersey Shore himself. All the vulgarities included and expanded.


Reply 20 - Posted by: King of all trolls, 2/25/2013 1:40:27 PM     (No. 9195314)

Big Poppa gives we RINOs a bad name.


Reply 21 - Posted by: bob913, 2/25/2013 2:14:32 PM     (No. 9195389)

There is no middle ground.
Either you are for socialism or for America.


Reply 22 - Posted by: oldsfc, 2/25/2013 5:29:31 PM     (No. 9195857)

Christie on any ticket is, imho a non starter. Just another loser outside of Jersey.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: rod reese, 2/26/2013 10:05:37 AM     (No. 9196876)

Christie? I´d never vote for him. not for anything.



Post Reply   Close thread 724822




Below, you will find ...

Most Recent Articles posted by "JoniTx"

and

Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)




Most Recent Articles posted by "JoniTx"



Assimilating immigrants into
the U.S.: New citizens view
America differently
Washington Times [DC], by Editorial    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 7:35:31 AM     Post Reply
Even as Congress prepares to debate whether to legalize 11 million illegal immigrants and give them a path to citizenship, analysts are cautioning lawmakers to focus on the other part of immigration: assimilating them fully into America. All sides in the debate agree that assimilation is critical, but in a report being released Monday, the Hudson Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank, says the country has failed on that account in recent years. They found that immigrants — even those who earn U.S. citizenship — have far less attachment to their new home than native-born Americans.

Special ops veterans’ group
calls for select probe of
Benghazi attack
Fox News, by Catherine Herridge    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 7:00:09 AM     Post Reply
More than 700 Special Operations veterans are urging members of Congress to back a select committee to investigate last year’s Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News. The letter from the group, “Special Operations Speaks,” supports the appointment of a special committee tasked with the single mission of investigating the attack that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead, and shut down the CIA operation in an annex of the Benghazi consulate, in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack. “Congress must show some leadership and provide answers to the public

Montana legalises cooking
and eating roadkill
Telegraph [UK], by Philip Sherwell    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 6:33:18 AM     Post Reply
New York -Lawmakers in the US state have overwhelmingly passed a bill allowing locals to salvage meat from the carcasses of wild animals killed in road accidents. When signed into law by the governor, Montana could become "the ultimate drive-through destination for adventurous foodies", the website Huffington Post noted. Steve Lavin, the legislator who introduced the bill, said that the idea came to him as he drove the open highways of the predominantly rural state and started to count the carcasses lining the road. "It really is a sin to waste a good meat,"

The Chicago Roots of Obama´s
(and America´s) Political Ideology
American Thinker, by Michael Bargo Jr.    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 6:24:20 AM     Post Reply
President Obama lives at a time when there are two very different and very well-defined political ideologies. On the one hand, the GOP is fighting for spending contraints, limited regulation, and more personal economic choice. President Obama and his party are more determined than any administration in U.S. history to promote and execute the idea that federal government is best suited to both meet the needs of the people and run the economy. The most fascinating aspect of this yin and yang pull of ideologies is not just that they are taking place at this time in history,

Obama Comes To Hartford
To Push Gun Control
Hartford Courant [CT], by Jenny Wilson & Jon Lender    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 6:19:40 AM     Post Reply
Using the bully pulpit to urge a response to a tragedy unlike any he has faced in office, President Barack Obama comes to Hartford on Monday in a last-ditch attempt to revive Democrats´ faltering efforts to pass stricter federal gun legislation. His speech at the University of Hartford marks the second time that the president has visited the state since the Newtown shootings locked the nation´s attention on gun control.(Snip) Obama´s speech on Monday afternoon at the university´s Chase Family Arena is closed to the public, but open to students, faculty, staff and guests invited by the White House.

Obama faces choice on
morning-after pill limits
Associated Press, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 6:18:29 PM     Post Reply
WASHINGTON— President Barack Obama supports requiring girls younger than 17 to see a doctor before buying the morning-after pill. But fighting that battle in court comes with its own set of risks. A federal judge in New York on Friday ordered the Food and Drug Administration to lift age restrictions on the sale of emergency contraception, ending the requirement that buyers show proof they’re 17 or older if they want to buy it without a prescription. The ruling accused the Obama administration in no uncertain terms of letting the president’s pending re-election cloud its judgment when it

GOP Must Stop ´My Way or the
Highway´ Budget Negotiations
Breitbart Big Government, by Ben Shapiro    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 6:06:56 PM     Post Reply
Projecting madly, the White House on Sunday pushed the notion that Republican intransigence is the reason that Democrats have been unable to pass a budget during President Obama’s tenure. “Right now,” said senior White House advisor Dan Pfeiffer on Fox News Sunday, “the approach of many Republicans, particularly the leadership in the House, is my way or the highway.” This is certainly rich coming from an administration that has failed to garner a single “yes” vote on its budget proposals for the past several years, even from members of its own party. Continuing to push

State Department diplomat with
Chicago ties killed in Afghanistan
Chicago Tribune, by Rosemary Regina Sobol & Dawn Rhodes    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 1:30:07 PM     Post Reply
A young diplomat from River Forest was among five Americans killed Saturday in an explosion in Afghanistan, according to her family and the U.S. State Department. A sixth American was killed in a separate attack in eastern Afghanistan. Anne Smedinghoff was 25, said her father Tom Smedinghoff, who was reached by phone. "She was doing what she loved and she was doing great things," her father said. "We´re just in total shock." In remarks in front of an audience of consulate employees today at the Consulate General in Istanbul, Secretary of State John Kerry said

President Obama Plays Golf
for Second Weekend in a Row
ABC News, by Arlette Saenz    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 1:20:36 PM     Post Reply
WASHINGTON — President Obama went out for a round of golf Saturday afternoon, his second weekend in a row to hit the links at a course at Joint Base Andrews. The president golfed with White House aides Marvin Nicholson, Joe Paulsen, and Michael Brush. Last Saturday, the president played golf at the same course with Nicholson, Brush, and friend and Chicago businessman Marty Nesbitt. The outing marked his first time on the golf course since the sequester cuts went into place on March 1. The president also took in the Syracuse-Marquette NCAA tournament basketball game

Hard to conceive:
Plan B for kids
Boston Herald, by Margery Eagan    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:50:09 PM     Post Reply
No doubt there are parents who have frank, frequent, open and easy discussions with their teens about sex. I’ve never met any. I do know parents, however, who were stunned to find their 15-year-old’s birth control pills in her pocketbook. Or who came home early to discover junior and a girl they’d never met frantically buttoning up. Or who found out — when their children were grown — what really went on when Meghan said she was sleeping over at Ashley’s. Such sobering tales of teens snookering mom and dad caused mixed emotions in me — a solidly pro-choice

Amid school changes,
giving voice to busing´s past
Associated Press, by Bridget Murphy    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:26:19 PM     Post Reply
Last fall, Ginnette Powell traveled from her home in Boston´s Dorchester section to her old middle school in South Boston - a journey of just two miles, but one that covered a huge emotional distance. Finally, she was able to leave the painful past behind. Powell endured the explosive battle over desegregation in Boston in the 1970s. Tears come to her eyes when she talks about how it took her decades to return to the place where she never felt safe as an African-American seventh-grader."It was scary because of what you were going into, getting bricks thrown at your bus.

McCain: ´I don´t understand´
GOP filibuster on guns
Politico, by Jennifer Epstein    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:18:14 PM     Post Reply
Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"



Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)



We are living in a dying country (Thread 2)
73 replie(s)
Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh    Original Article
Posted By: LComStaff- 4/7/2013 6:49:54 AM     Post Reply
This is the second thread of an article posted yesterday which can be found here:http://lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=730032

´My bangs are getting
a little irritating´: Michelle
Obama admits she already regrets
her high-maintenance hairdo

66 replie(s)
Daily Mail (UK), by Margot Peppers    Original Article
Posted By: pineledger- 4/7/2013 7:43:42 AM     Post Reply
Michelle Obama has admitted that she is already tired of the bangs she first sported in January. The First Lady said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight: ´Bangs are a day-by-day proposition. They´re starting to grow out, get a little irritating.´ Still, she hasn´t let her hairdo woes get her down. ´It´s okay,´ she said after her initial complaint. ´We´ll be good.´ The first indication that her hairstyle was becoming a burden came about last weekend, when Malia, 14, was spotted adjusting her mother´s hair during the White House Easter Egg Roll.

McCain: ´I don´t understand´
GOP filibuster on guns

65 replie(s)
Politico, by Jennifer Epstein    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:18:14 PM     Post Reply
Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"

Christians, here´s why we´re
losing our religion

50 replie(s)
Fox News, by Craig Groeschel    Original Article
Posted By: STLstudent- 4/7/2013 5:13:55 PM     Post Reply
Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”

Broadcasters worry
about ´Zero TV´ homes

48 replie(s)
Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima    Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon- 4/7/2013 2:43:40 PM     Post Reply
Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from

Mother Of Slain Benghazi
Officer To Sean Hannity:
‘They Want Me To Shut Up’

44 replie(s)
Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM     Post Reply
On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,

Vanishing workforce
weighs on growth

42 replie(s)
Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM     Post Reply
Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank

Obama critic apologizes for
his ´poorly chosen words´
on gay marriage

41 replie(s)
The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/6/2013 12:18:19 PM     Post Reply
Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,

The Secrets of Princeton
40 replie(s)
New York Times, by Ross Douthat    Original Article
Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM     Post Reply
Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —

Is going gluten-free
healthier for everybody?

34 replie(s)
The Week, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/7/2013 11:28:27 AM     Post Reply
Gluten-free diets are all the rage, but they can be dangerous if not done right. What is gluten? It´s the spongy complex of proteins, found naturally in wheat, rye, and barley, that gives elasticity to dough and allows it to rise. When flour is moistened and either kneaded or mixed into dough, gluten molecules form an elastic, microscopic latticework that traps the carbon dioxide produced when yeast ferments, causing dough to inflate like a hot air balloon. Baking hardens the gluten, which helps the finished product keep its shape. Wheat — and gluten — is ubiquitous in the American diet.

Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
anniversary in Havana, Cuba

32 replie(s)
Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad    Original Article
Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM     Post Reply
Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for

Adam Lanza´s murder spree at Sandy
Hook may have been´act of revenge´

31 replie(s)
New York Daily News, by Matthew Lysiak and Rich Schapiro    Original Article
Posted By: noproblems- 4/7/2013 9:52:58 AM     Post Reply
Newtown killer Adam Lanza may have launched his murder spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School as an “act of revenge,” the Daily News has learned. A close friend of Lanza’s mother told The News that the troubled boy was a target of relentless bullying when he attended the Connecticut school years ago. “I think Adam felt betrayed by the school and this was his act of revenge,” said Marvin LaFontaine, a friend of Nancy Lanza’s. “Nancy told me he was being picked on at school. That they were just torturing him.”
Source and text corrected by Staff.


Post Reply   Close thread 724822





Home Page | Latest Posts | Links | Must Reads | Update Profile | Register | Rules & FAQs | Search | Post | Contact | RSS | Contribute | Logout | Forgot Password

© 2013 Lucianne.com Media Inc.

FS