I think people across the entire spectrum are growing tired of what is starting to look like a generational war that is only proving to create a police state here.
Christie’s major donors are the neo conservative wing of the Republican Party. They abhor the neoisolationism that Rand Paul champions. They fear that it is gaining traction with hard pressed Americans who are tiring of bloody and extensive foreign entanglements that do not benefit the United States. Christie is not the only person who will be attacking Rand for virtually anything he says.
Over the past decade or so, New Jersey has gotten back somewhere between 50 cents and 75 cents for every dollar it sends to Washington DC. Part of that is because New Jersey has a lot of rich people living there and they pay a lot of Federal taxes but an awful lot of money is spent in red states on things like rural infrastructure, farm subsidies, and even welfare and food stamps that are not as obvious in red states as they are in blighted urban neighborhoods in blue states. That’s why the federal money machine is so hard to reduce. It’s been carefully crafted so that even red states have a stake in perpetuating it. If you give every congressional district a slice of the pie, nobody wants to be the one taking that slice away from their district, even the Republicans.
Yeah, Paul’s been there since 2011. It’s 2013. I think all the pork has been pulled in by the other senator, who’s been there since 1985. You know, the minority leader of the senate. I’ll be Christie would back McConnell over Bevin, nevertheless.
Note that I’m not defending Christie overall. I’m not sure I’m going to vote for him the next time and am currently leaning heavily against it. I didn’t vote for Whitman when she ran for reelection, either. I voted libertarian, instead, despite not being all that libertarian on some issues.
Christie is nothing more than a game player. I think he is going to collapse and lose his following. IMHO...He’s a jerk.
KY receives exponentially more military and agro funding
Has a huge chunk of their economy under federal siege....coal
And as importantly does not serve as the worlds largest earning center’s bedroom......much like SW Connecticut will skew things a lot
Its apples and oranges
So is Christie going to lead the effort to shutoff the federal spending spigot or is he just going to try and redirect the spigot more towards New Jersey?
I am not a Christie fan, but he does fight back which I wish more would do. Kentucky is a drain on society apparently. 1.51 back for every dollar they send. Sheesh what a welfare state. Who knew? And with the Senate Minority Leader in the state no less.
Not often you see a state politician brag about how little pork he and his fellow pols bring home.
If New Jersey gets 61 cents back on every dollar sent to Washington and Kentucky gets $1.51 on every dollar sent to Washington, then what would happen if every state were to get back 100% of every dollar sent to Washington?
I have one word for Governor Krispy Kreme:
Trenton.
Krispy Kreme is imploding on his own.
War between the States?
I would never vote for an Obama-hugging lard ass like Cristie. He’s the one that started this BS. This is after the porker had his hugest with Obama.
Christie couln’t survive a long political race. His speech at the republican convention sucked because he was so winded. He’s so out of shape the walk on stage wore him out. He was pathetic.
I care not one whit what a chump like David Frum has to say.
Let them make their arguments. We need a good housecleaning, air all the dirty laundry and let’s compare notes.
To borrow a speech from Obamas pastor Father Pheleger:
Christie is only mad because he’s ignorant of what The South is like. He thought he could pick on Paul because “this will be easy going against this southern hick dumbass” and all of a sudden he gets smacked hard by someone that ISN’T dumb and ISN’T easy to take down. And Christie’s now saying “AHHHH DAMN! WHERE’D THAT INTELLIGENT SOUTHERNER COME FROM? IM A NORTHENER! IM EDUCATED! THERE’S A SOUTHERNER HICK STEALING MY SHOW! WAAAAAAAAA!”