Posted on 12/15/2013 4:48:55 AM PST by SMGFan
You really don’t understand Dems.
I don’t understand Republicans. When we have the Speaker of the House, and the Minority Senator picking a fight with half of their party that is pretty stupid .
But anyway I will not vote for Christie.
Heart attack victims in ambulances were caught in this manufactured gridlock situation.
How important could the endorsement by a Democratic mayor of a small, crummy town have been, in a campaign where Christie was going to win in a landslide anyway?
Knowing how New Jersey's public agencies work, it was more likely that the bridge lane closures were done because of some kind of dispute between the facility staff at the bridge and elected officials in Fort Lee over something as simple as parking regulations on the local streets.
Whatever hurts that fat rino fkuc is fine with me!
You would think the rats would love Crispy. He’s practically one of them. But as far as I’m concerned anythng that keeps him from running is a good thing.
As a former inhabitant of the area, I take exception to your description of Fort Lee as being “crummy.” Other than that, you are spot on. This was likely more of a spat between bureaucracies than anything else.
The fact that Christy is not condemning this and firing people makes me believe it was completely political. Another thing, Christy could have ordered the lanes open after the first day.
I'm a conservative, voted straight Republican ticket for well over 30 years (until 2012), and fear Christie exactly the same way that the Dems do. And I would advocate for his defeat the same way that I advocate for any Democrat's defeat.
That old addage "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is a LIE that leads to stupid choices.
The question was who do the Dems fear.
The answer is that they fear Christie because they think he can win.
They don’t think someone like Cruz can win. Whether their feelings are correct is moot to the argument.
Circular, my foot.
People who wanted Romney and couldn't undertand conservatives who said "Not just no, but Hell No!" always described the malaise as that of a "circular" firing squad, as if everyone was just aiming willy-nilly at the "Republican" directly across the "circle," when in reality pretty much everybody was aiming at the same guy, nothing "circular" about it.
No, there is a left SIDE and a right SIDE. "Circular firing squad" is a semantic mechanism to deflect responsibility and accountability.
Nobody should care who the Dems fear. It is totally IRRELEVANT who they fear -- when we allow what the Dems think to influence our choice of candidate, then it is allowing the Dems to control our side.
We will ONLY start winning when we select our candidates with ZERO, as in big fat donut hole, reference to what the Dems think.
I don’t know if politics was involved or not in the lane closures at the GW Bridge, on the occassion that is at the heart of the controversy.
I do know that the Port Authority is one of the most corrupt government institions in the bi-state area and a dumping ground of hacks and cronies of the governors of New York and New Jersey.
It makes dozens of decisions that affect the economies of New York and New Jersey, with governmental authority, including how much revenue it will raise and from whom, as well as where it will spend that revenue as well as how much it will borrow with NO official accountability to any elected bodies other than the two governors who appoint its board and agree on its top executives. The legislators can complain to their governors but have no authority to over-ride their decisions.
Each component of the infrastructure holdings of the Port Authority should be set on their own and many of them, like the airports, compeletely privatized.
I'm not sure I'd even recognize the place as an American town if you took me there blindfolded and left me in the middle of the busiest street. There are so many Koreans living there that the town is derisively referred to as "Fort Ree" by long-time residents in the area.
I suspect that part of the problem the New Jersey legislature has in this case is that Chairman Wisniewski of the assembly transportation committee has absolutely no power over the most powerful agency in the region.
Fat boi is DOA outside of Jwersay.
Fort Lee may pale in comparison to Alpine, Englewood Cliffs, and Tenafly, but i would prefer living there to New Milford, Hasbruck Heights, or Fair Lawn. BTW: Hate to break to you, but the Asians are taking over Paramus, and Ridgewood is next. ;)
I don't dispute the excellence of Koreans in academics, but I don't know if Fort Lee is cultivating that kind of Korean student. They passed a law in that place a few years ago that required all businesses to post their public signs in English, or at least to post a correct English translation on a Korean sign. What kind of Ivy League potential does someone have if they can't even speak and/or read English properly?
BTW: The law in question was passed in Palisades Park, which was a white trash toilet before the Koreans moved in. Of course, nearby Fairview was also a white trash toilet, but has since shifted to Third World trash from Guatemala.
I believe there are actually seven towns in that area with similar English-language laws for signs on business establishments. They are:
Cliffside Park
Englewood
Englewood Cliffs
Fort Lee
Leonia
Palisades Park
Ridgefield
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