Bookworm on Nov 20 2010 at 6:11 pm | Filed under: Chris Christie
I’ll let you supply the adjectives. Suggestions are “wonderful,” “awesome,” “superlative,” “inspiring,” “amusing,” “brave.” You get my drift:
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Love it!
This story has yet to fully break:
http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/sf-school-district-empire-moat-operated/
Notice, the quotes about it was going on for years, I’ve heard estimates of 6 million $. With stories like this it’s not surprising that Californian’s think there is a lot of government “waste” that can be cut.
What a stand-up fellow he is! A pure delight. No smarmy political double-speak there!
We also have some clarity from the elder Bushes. In an interview side-by-side with her huhsband, former First Lady Barbara Bush had this to say of Sarah Palin:
“I sat next to her once. Thought she was beautiful,” Barbara Bush said. “And she’s very happy in Alaska, and I hope she’ll stay there.”
Spoken in civilized tones, a nasty little put-down. The kindof acerbic aside you normally save for enemies, not political friends. So we have some RINO truth-telling here.
Well, a few words for the ‘Read My Lips, No New Taxes – Oops, I mean, Here Are Your New Taxes” crowd. The time for raising taxes is… OVER. The full tax bite now means that we work for the government well into August before our money becomes our own. It wasn’t ten years ago we worked “only” into June. June! That was bad enough! A government that cannot survive on 25% of our money is a discredited government. Let’s roll it back from August to… how about April 15! There’s a good date to strike for!
No more taxes. Roll it all back! The government has never, in the last hundred years, instituted real spending cuts. It has always, in these hundred years, only grown, and grown and grown. Even during Reagan, it grew.
An entity that does nothing but wildly grow and grow… that’s called a cancer, in my book. Cancers grow wildly, and grow and grow without cease. It’s time to apply some radiation, some chemotherapy, to our government. It’s time to shrink the cancer cells. To remove them. To slash and burn and cut out the disease.
The government has NEVER shrunk. And RINOs like Barbara Bush have never spoken out against it. She’d rather cattily dismiss Sarah Palin rather than provide neutral comment on a political ally. What good are RINOs if they won’t be conservative? They’re not on our side.
Until we get demonstrive PROOF that the government can be shrunk, we must stand up and say “NO!” to new taxes. Not one penny! Not until there are real shrinkage cuts, real proof that whole departments can be shut down and abolished. No taxes! No more taxes! You take my money January through August! No more! No more! It is over! Spending cuts, spending cuts alone! No compromise!
It’s time to slash spending. Let’s starve the cancer monster.
I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it again: Christie-Bolton 2012
I wish that there was good evidence that Chris Christie was genuinely conservative in his positions….but I’ve not seen it yet.
It seems to me that his best position is governor of New Jersey….we don’t need a squish on immigration, Cap and Trade, etc. in the White House…..
Peggy Noonan, Kathleen Parker and Barbara Bush have all put down Sarah Palin’s in the most catty terms that let it be known that Sarah Palin is, well, much to ordinary to be accepted into their social circles.
Did these women all receive their grooming at the same sorority?
I would like to suggest that what Chris Christie, Sarah Palin and Ronald Reagan all have in common is a great and timely sense of humor. That’s the conservatives’ secret weapon: humor.
The Left is incapable of good humor, only dark sarcasm. I know, I know, there is Obama’s court jester, Joe Biden: Joe Biden doesn’t mean to be funny, however, it just comes out that way.
I was disappointed to hear of BB’s comment about Palin. I’ve thought highly of her(BB). I suspect that the problem is that Palin isn’t “ladylike”, so she doesn’t fit the image for these women when they think of the highest ranking person in the country. We don’t have royalty, but we expect a certain image of propriety from the president, and by their standards, she doesn’t have that propriety or the social class.
When I think back to my mother’s social circle, social events, etc., I think she’d find major differences today. We used to have the Officer’s Club, the Officer’s Wives’ Club, the NCO Club and the wives’ adjunct, and the Enlisted Men’s Club and Wives’ Club. Now there seems to be only one “Club” on the facilities we visit, no wives’ organizations and basically no “social” structure any more. Part of that is because wives didn’t work then, and now they do – or frequently do. When you have all worker bees, there just isn’t time or a need for a separate social life. You have to have leisure time to plan social events. Who has “coming out” events for their daughters any more? Well…aside from the Mexicans who have Quinciana parties, which seem to me to be the equivalent of coming out parties. My guess is that these will fade over a generation or two.
Sometimes I forget how much life has changed over the last 50 years – but it really has. I don’t know if it’s better or worse, but it’s definitely changed.
MAN CRUSH!
He is sooooo dreamy.
“Peggy Noonan, Kathleen Parker and Barbara Bush have all put down Sarah Palin’s in the most catty terms that let it be known that Sarah Palin is, well, much to ordinary to be accepted into their social circles.”
Sarah Palin behaves in a very assertive manner totally unfamiliar to most women who were brought up with 50s cultural indoctrination.
Palin is someone who can command loyalty from men, not the other way around. Palin, in fact, is a throwback to when female nobility had to lead armies on the field or when defending the castle. Joan of Arc. And a bunch of other names I forgot. Boadicea.
Remember when various states in the West joined the Union? Those Western states often had equal voting and property rights for men and women. The requirement for them to join the Union, dominated by East Coast Englanders, was that they had to put the women back into their proper place.
Alaska is a frontier. Women there are expected to command as much loyalty and respect in a position of authority as men. The conditions cannot allow anything less if you wish to survival frontier conditions. But in a luxurious setting, you got the patriarchy coming out in full force talking about these frail women needing to be put in the shed.
“Did these women all receive their grooming at the same sorority?”
They all came from an upbringing that taught them that conflict and violence was Bad and Evil and that real females were non-violent and accepting of authority. But the upbringing wasn’t really important since they are adults now. Their current peers, however, aren’t any different.
so she doesn’t fit the image for these women when they think of the highest ranking person in the country.
They pretty much expect her to behave like Laura Bush. Keep her mouth shut and support her husband. The thing is, Palin’s husband isn’t the one we are considering electing to be able to fire nuclear weapons or second in line to do so should there be a casualty. Nor is Sarah Palin, in her previous position as Governor of Alaska, going to ask her husband what he would do when it comes to taking care of the strategic nuclear weapons in Alaska.
People’s “ideas” of what a woman should do, is still pretty anachronistic these days. The Left likes to re-engineer human nature but as we have just seen, humans don’t tend to change as easily as they think. They sink back to their roots when all things are equal.
“I would like to suggest that what Chris Christie, Sarah Palin and Ronald Reagan all have in common is a great and timely sense of humor.”
Related to body language, the person laughing puts himself into a submissive position and the one that makes that person laugh puts himself into a superior position. That is what CC, SP, and RR does. They make their audience laugh, without laughing themselves, thus reinforcing their authority over them.
Heh, interesting tidbit to know, eh? And the Left… well of course you know about the Left.
Males say a “good sense of humor” for a female really means that the female laughs at the male’s jokes. The same is true for a female when they say a male should have a good sense of humor. They mean a male that makes them laugh.
Know one should be surprised at BB’s comment about Sarah Palin – she has her own personal agenda – his name is Jeb Bush.
Chris Christie also said, Don’t put your political capital in a drawer and refuse to spend it. Spend it! Or you’ll find two years from now, when you open that drawer, that it’s empty anyway.
In light of that, and the fact that so many RINOs and Democrats are urging moderation and go-it-easy – don’t you DARE go conservative in your voting patterns, new House members! – here’s a great article about how the American People might just be ready for our new House members to do some REAL conservative voting. Let’s urge them on!
http://lastcar.blogspot.com/2010/11/pass-budget-and-go-home-oh-no.html