Selective rage?

I’m fascinated by the response Chris Christie’s ill-fated helo ride engendered. I registered my disgust yesterday, and blog buddy Chris Wysocki commented before I could update that Christie ultimately paid the state back for the trip after bad optics. But is that it? Garner bad press so pay for the trip thus washing your slate clean? The [...]

Change: Chris Christie, tone deaf

Maybe the national attention and pretty-pleases of folks like me have, um, gone to his head? Hot Air: Chris Christie takes state helicopter to son’s baseball game Allahpundit’s wry one-liner captures the rest: When he got there, he hopped in a limo that drove him … 100 yards to the field. Jonathan Tobin at Commentary thinks [...]

Like a dagger in my heart, Chris Christie

On the news that if Mitch Daniels runs, Christie will support. CBS News: Reflecting what many observers see as weak Republican field, the pressure on Daniels to run has been intense. He has been assured backing from big-money donors who supported George W. Bush, in addition to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, as well as [...]

Tuesday Laundry

The Other McCain has the latest on the fanatic Lutheran who stormed the cockpit of American Airlines Flight 1561 screaming “Praise Jesus!”  GatorDoug thinks he was a Methodist. As a Catholic, I just lump ‘em all together as “Protestant.” Pundette: Obama heads to Texas to poke a stick in a hornet’s nest. Can you agree and [...]

You betcha!

Know what’s even sexier? That he could kick Obama’s ass six ways to Sunday. Sans ‘prompter.

A reminder or two

Tim Pawlenty might well be a wonderful man. I just can’t see him as President. He doesn’t have the fire in his belly that Chris Christie does. And Newt, please. Go away. If your Pelosi-hand-holding commercial weren’t enough to dash your credibility, sleeping with mistress while condemning the Clinton for doing the same smacks of [...]

Paging Chris Christie

I know you know you can do this. And I don’t think there’s anyone else capable of selling the impossible, that is, telling people like it is. We don’t have the money for everyone’s Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc etc sans some serious trimming. Not just shape-shifting. Cuts. Big Axe, not X-acto. What did you tell that [...]

The problem, in a pie chart

Ah, money.  Though he claims he’s not surprised, Allahpundit scared the hell out of me with this: 60% oppose stripping collective bargaining rights from public union workers. Granted, most of the respondents probably didn’t know the difference between a public sector union and a private sector union, but I digress.  Raising taxes won’t be enough. Why? [...]

Antonyms: “leader” and “Wisconsin Senator”

The Democrats at least. From Chris Christie’s boffo speech in DC yesterday, this: . . .you just have to have the spine to say I’m gonna take the risk. But I think that’s what we elect leaders for. Hence the name. Right? Like if you’re waiting midway back in the pack and call yourself a leader it [...]

What Would Chris Christie Do? Call out liberal lackey journolists.

Must see TV.  I missed this yesterday morning while hiking in glorious Colorado sunshine with my family.  H/t Daily Caller: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie irked NBC’s David Gregory — and probably won over more conservatives weary of the media in the process — by suggesting on “Meet the Press” that the host was acting [...]