Gov. Christie calls pension overhaul his 'biggest governmental victory' in exclusive interview

[nonperson]

Source: NJ Star-Ledger

TRENTON — With his "biggest governmental victory" in the books, Gov. Chris Christie plans to fight the Democrats on their call for a millionaires tax, get the budget passed this week with no major disruptions, then turn to overhauling the education system.

In an exclusive interview yesterday with The Star-Ledger, Christie was still savoring the passage Thursday night of a bipartisan bill that forces state workers to pay more for their pension benefits, an accomplishment that won him more national attention from conservative Republicans and talk shows.

"It’s my biggest governmental victory because of what it means, because of how much it’s going to save," Christie said. "I think it’s really a big deal."

And even though the Democrats crossed the aisle to join him on the pension bill, the governor is waving no olive branches on the budget that must be completed by Friday.

Read more: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/06/gov_christie_calls_pension_ove.html

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This is the thanks New Jersey Democratic Senate and Assembly leaders Sweeney and Oliver get for compromising with this goon.

Listen up, people, they're grooming this incompetent, corrupt voodoo-economics Reaganite for the White House and I wouldn't be surprised if he's drafted at the Republican hate-fest that doubles as a convention in 2012.

One more thing: You have to hand it to Republicans. Christie is getting the Wisconsin Scott Walker labor and education agenda passed WITH A DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY IN BOTH THE NEW JERSEY SENATE AND ASSEMBLY! And he's doing it in record time! Eighteen months and counting!

Now just imagine what President Obama and the Democratic Party could have accomplished with the White House and majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives for TWO YEARS! But what did we get? A watered down excuse for a health care reform plan and extensions of Bush-era Republican policies under the guise of bipartisanship and extra-dimensional chess.

Why America is so screwed up:
Republicans control government even from the minority while Democrats can't control government even with a majority.

Chris Christie 2012!
Give America exactly what it deserves!

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Christie IS waiting to be drafted at the Convention.

He will disavow every time he's asked that he's running for 2012. By waiting to be drafted, he saves time and money by avoiding campaigning and instead, spending his "political capital" on taking more money away from non-millionaires in New Jersey.

[No Elephants]

15. Yesterday, on MTP, Brooks kept comparing Christie to Obama. Rethugs are salivating for him to run.

[BiggJawn]

2. Maybe he'll take his victory laps in the State Fuzz helicopter? n/t

[MADem]

14. If he tried to run those victory laps, he'd be dead before he was halfway around the track. NT

[Faygo Kid]

3. Another Koch tool. Walker, Snyder, Scott, Kasich, Christie - bought and paid for.

And all taking the same marching orders.

[TatonkaJames]

4. It's another form of TAX

He thinks he's fooling people. It will save money ? Yeah, to the state and corporations. So we pay more, like a TAX.
Now he want's to raise our taxes more by saying no to the Millionaires tax.
They fight against raising taxes but raise them in other forms.
Fuck that fat ass. He should eat a carrot once in a while. Just another tough arm for the robber barons.

[nonperson]

5. In NJ under Christie our highest in the nation property taxes have skyrocketed

While services, education, state aid to towns and cities, Medicaid, NJN, the arts, libraries: EVERYTHING has been drastically cut but our property taxes keep rising astronomically and now Christie has implemented the cuts he wanted for state workers through legislation instead of collective bargaining! An accomplishment any of the Christie-clone Republican governors hell bent on destroying the middle class at their masters bidding would be proud of!

And the national media those same masters own and operate tout this enormous failure as some sort of savior! THE FACTS OF CHRISTIE'S FIRST EIGHTEEN MONTHS IN OFFICE DO NOT MATCH THE NATIONAL PERSONA BEING CRAFTED BY THE LIKES OF AILES, ROVE, AND LIMBAUGH.

http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/state/gov-christie-wont-discuss-meeting-with-roger-ailes-and-rush-limbaugh

Gov. Christie won't discuss meeting with Roger Ailes and Rush Limbaugh
Friday, 17 June 2011 15:06

Claims executive privilege concerning dinner at Upstate New York home

BY TOM HESTER SR.
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/08/karl_rove_says_gop_candidate_c.html

Karl Rove and Chris Christie discussed N.J. governor run while serving as U.S. Attorney

By Michael Rispoli/The Star-Ledger
August 12, 2009, 5:25AM

Chris Christie is a much larger threat that he appears to be, if that's physically possible. And so far the Democrats in and out of New Jersey are treating him the way they did when he was U.S. Attorney with his eye on the governor's mansion: Touting his "accomplishments" and doing their best to work with him instead of against him. They help burnish his image for their own future defeat. Now Christie and his handlers have their eye on the White House and Democrats still haven't learned or simply don't want to.

[John Paul Jones]

6. Some people think tax increases are a good thing.

[nonperson]

7. Tax increases on people who can afford them are a good thing

But the people who can afford to pay higher taxes are paying Great Depression level tax rates of 16% on income and wealth that are at all time highs. While the people who can't afford any more tax increases are paying more for less.

Typical Republican voodoo economics. Rob from the middle class and poor to pay the rich while you destroy the very fabric of society.

[John Paul Jones]

8. The rich and the poor do not matter, for their demographics are small.

The middle-class has always done the heavy lifting in this country.

[nonperson]

9. Demographics are changing rapidly

The middle class are fast becoming the poor. We're well on our way to becoming an economically polarized society.

[nonperson]

10. Just read the first paragraph of the story and you'll see

With his "biggest governmental victory" in the books, Gov. Chris Christie plans to fight the Democrats on their call for a millionaires tax, get the budget passed this week with no major disruptions, then turn to overhauling the education system.

Now check that against the national Republican party goals:

Tax break for millionaires.
Draconian budget passed.
Destroy public education.

This is a concerted effort on the part of the Republican Party from top to bottom from statehouse to congress to fundamentally change the American social contract to wealth for the few, poverty for the rest and destroying the education system to prevent mobility.

[aquart]

11. If all the money is with the rich, they're the only ones who do matter.

They're letting the rest of us die.

[truth2power]

12. He was on MTP today. Gawd! What a piece of offal! n/t

[nonperson]

13. This is what I'm talking about

Chris Christie is getting the national attention and media spots reserved for serious presidential candidates.

I'm going to make a prediction and we'll see if it comes true. Chris Christie will be the Republican nominee for president in 2012. And he'll beat President Obama because just like in New Jersey the Democratic voters will stay home (but in reality the votes will be cast by the people who control the touch screen machines.)

God help us all.