severely conservative Archives :: The Political Carnival

Archive for severely conservative

Chris Christie “just another hack… is kaput, bye-bye and done for… will not run for president in 2016.”

Posted by GottaLaff

· Thursday, June 6th, 2013 at 1:27 pm

Today Chris Christie announced the appointment of Jeffrey S. Chiesa, the state’s attorney general, to fill the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Frank R. Lautenberg. (Per Think Progress, he supports gun buyback programs and opposes the death penalty.)

Politico emailed this alert:

“I said on Monday I was going to select the person I thought was going to be the best person to represent New Jersey between now and Oct. 13,” Christie told reporters. “During the last few days as I’ve gotten to deliberate on this decision, it became clear to me that Attorney General Chiesa would be the best person to represent the people of New Jersey in the United States Senate.”

Chiesa’s name had not been among those circulated in the early short-lists mentioned by Christie insiders.

Christie announced the selection at a news conference in Trenton, shortly before he was set to leave for a GOP donor retreat in Utah with Mitt Romney, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).

To any Democrats out there who still believe Christie is a Dem in GOP clothing, read that bolded part again. I know I keep pushing the same point over and over again, but this misguided admiration for this very Republican big mouth is about as self-destructive as a Democrat can get. I implore you to read my posts that make the point in greater detail.

Recently, New Jersey Governor ~~Me Me Me~~ Chris Christie said, “I don’t know the cost for the special election and I don’t care.” He sure doesn’t.

One GOP official said, “I think this ends his 2016 chances. It’s year after year with this guy.”

And then Brent Budowsky wrote a blog for The Hill and said this:

The biggest losers are New Jersey taxpayers, who will foot the bill for the absurd and unnecessary special election; and New Jersey schoolchildren, who could have used the money for education that Christie is wasting on the special election.

The mega-loser is the Christie brand, which is kaput, bye-bye and done for. Christie is no longer different. He is just another hack looking out for himself. Christie will not run for president in 2016.

H/t: @Cody_K

No Comments

Categories : Politics

Tags : 2016 presidential election, buh bye now, Chris Christie, come on Democrats, gullible, just stop, political donations, Seriously it's time to stop, severely conservative, special election

VIDEO- Chris Christie: I don’t know the cost for the special election and I don’t care

Posted by GottaLaff

· Tuesday, June 4th, 2013 at 2:04 pm

· 1 Comment

Watch more Elections videos on Frequency

Via.

There he is, Gov. All About Me, New Jersey’s very own Chris Christie:

“I don’t know what the cost is and I, quite frankly, don’t care. I don’t think you can put a price tag on what it’s worth to have an elected person in the United States Senate and I will do whatever I need to do to make sure those costs are covered because all the people of the state of New Jersey will benefit from it and we’re not going to be penny-wise and pound-foolish around here.”

Memo to Chris: Some people do care, especially when you’re holding a special election only three weeks before you’re up for your own re-election. ABC:

The decision to hold an election in October comes with a price tag approaching $25 million because every statewide election in New Jersey costs more than $12 million to execute, and the two parties will hold primaries before the election.

He must think his state has money to burn after that silly little Sandy storm.

And yet even Democrats feel some kind of misguided affection for this mean-spirited, not in the least bit liberal, very self-serving, very conservative loudmouth: WTF is wrong with these people? “Major Democratic donors flock to Chris Christie.” Please read that post if for nothing else than why he will never become a Dem (which for some unfathomable reason some on the gullible left believe is his destiny), and what he really stands for.

1 Comment

Categories : Politics

Tags : Chris Christie, come on Democrats, gop fail, gullible, just stop, new jersey, no seriously WTF???, Seriously it's time to stop, severely conservative, special election, video

WTF is wrong with these people? “Major Democratic donors flock to Chris Christie”

Posted by GottaLaff

· Monday, June 3rd, 2013 at 4:56 pm

· 3 Comments

Dear Dems:

Stop shooting yourselves in the foot.

Love, an extremely frustrated Laffy

I don’t know how to make this any clearer:

Dear New Jersey voters: Maybe this will finally convince you that Chris Christie is not your friend

Dear Dems, you can stop praising Chris Christie now. Seriously.

Enough about what a great Democrat Chris Christie would make, okay?

VIDEO: Chris Christie not conservative? Bull pucky. Check out his record

Think for yourself. Ask questions. Do your homework.

Playing arcade games with President Obama, snickering as he barks bluntly (read: disrespectfully and rudely) to reporters and women who question him, and approving of his handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy are not reason enough for Democrats to give him money. Why? Here’s why:

Chris Christie Vetoed Same-Sex Marriage

Chris Christie Is No Friend to Workers

Chris Christie Doesn’t Believe in Universal Pre-K

Chris Christie Misuses State Funds

Chris Christie Supports the Ryan Budget

Chris Christie Vetoed a Hike in the Minimum Wage

Chris Christie Vetoed Equal Pay Legislation

Chris Christie Targeted Poor Families in His Budget

Chris Christie Cut Funding to Family Planning Organizations

Chris Christie Is Proudly Anti-Choice

He also vetoed early voting, which means he has nothing against voter suppression.

Forethought, people, forethought. Think! Is this someone you’d want gaining more power?

And then there’s all that boasting about Christie accomplishing something that is required by the state. He HAD to balance the budget. Please follow the links above for more on his record. Please.

Because after reading this article at the Newark Star-Ledger, you’re going to want to share them with a lot of rich, politically connected Democrats:

Gov. Chris Christie is cashing in donations from top Democratic fundraisers and other traditionally liberal donors across the country, even nabbing the support of a handful of rainmakers aligned with President Obama and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a Star-Ledger review of state and federal records shows.

The checks are flying into the Republican governor’s war chest from all sorts of unlikely places — the hedge fund run by liberal billionaire George Soros, for example, and the politically progressive halls of the University of California, Berkeley. [...]

Brigid Harrison, a political science professor at Montclair State University, said much of Christie’s Democratic support stems from a recent fundraiser in California with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. If those West Coast donors knew more about Christie’s conservative record inside the Statehouse — vetoing a same-sex marriage bill and minimum-wage increase, for example — they might not be so eager to open their wallets, she said.

What does it take? What is wrong with these people? Why would any Democrat want Christie in office? Good f’ing grief!

Again, Chris Christie is all about Chris Christie. Say it with me. Once and for all, understand who this guy is.

3 Comments

Categories : Politics

Tags : Chris Christie, come on Democrats, gop fail, gullible, just stop, new jersey, no seriously WTF???, political donations, Seriously it's time to stop, severely conservative

Dear New Jersey voters: Maybe this will finally convince you that Chris Christie is not your friend

Posted by GottaLaff

· Friday, May 10th, 2013 at 3:45 pm

· 6 Comments

I don’t know how many times or ways I can stress this, but here’s what I’ve posted so far:

Dear Dems, you can stop praising Chris Christie now. Seriously.

Enough about what a great Democrat Chris Christie would make, okay?

VIDEO: Chris Christie not conservative? Bull pucky. Check out his record

Think for yourself. Ask questions. Do your homework.

Added: Christie also brags about accomplishing something that is required by the state. He HAD to balance the budget. Please follow the links above for more on his record.

But he’s headed for a landslide, and I still get tweets from fellow Democrats singing his praises. What part of these posts don’t people understand? What part of his insolence and disrespect for anyone who dares to challenge him don’t they get? What part of his arrogance and conservatism is difficult to process? What part of his record on the issues is it tough to grasp?

Maybe this article from The Newark Star Ledger will help:

Gov. Chris Christie today vetoed a bill that would allow early voting at polling places, prompting Democrats to brand it a politically motivated effort to suppress the vote months after Hurricane Sandy exposed vulnerabilities in the state elections system.

The Republican governor called a proposal to let voters cast ballots at designated polling places during a 15-day period before Election Day “hasty, counterproductive and less reliable” than the current system.

Chris Christie is stifling the vote. Chris Christie is silencing voices. Chris Christie is preventing people from casting ballots.

Chris Christie is all about Chris Christie. Say it with me. Once and for all, understand who this guy is.

Please read the rest here.

6 Comments

Categories : Politics

Tags : Chris Christie, early voting, gop fail, new jersey, severely conservative, voter suppression

Dear Dems, you can stop praising Chris Christie now. Seriously.

Posted by GottaLaff

· Thursday, March 21st, 2013 at 2:27 pm

· No Comments

Please take another look at why Chris Christie really is, and never has been, the “moderate” people say he is: Enough about what a great Democrat Chris Christie would make, okay? and VIDEO: Chris Christie not conservative? Bull pucky. Check out his record and Think for yourself. Ask questions. Do your homework.

His approvals are through the roof, and Democrats inexplicably continue to praise him because he occasionally does or says the right thing. Key word: Occasionally. Make that rarely. This baffles me.

Here’s one of the wrong things he’s doing:

(CNN) – A ban on so-called “gay conversion therapy” that’s being considered by New Jersey lawmakers doesn’t yet have the approval of the state’s Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who said he hasn’t made up his mind whether he would sign the ban into law.

Seriously? He has to think about this one?

Wait, it gets worse:

The paper reported Christie saying he never reads bills before they hit his desk for approval.

Seriously? He doesn’t bother to read bills before approving or vetoing? He’s already vetoed a marriage equality bill that he apparently didn’t read.

On Wednesday, Christie reaffirmed his personal opposition to same-sex marriage.

Has he been talking to Marcus Bachmann? What next, approving a bloodletting bill?

The bill – which was approved by a state Senate committee on Monday – would make it illegal for a professional counselor to “engage in sexual orientation change efforts with a person under 18.” Therapy methods vary, but are often times associated with fundamentalist Christian groups who oppose homosexuality. Shock therapy is used in some instances.

Major medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association, oppose therapies that aim to treat homosexuality as a mental disorder.

Seriously? He has to think about a bill that can destroy lives, electrically shock kids into submission, and drive them to suicide? What century is he living in?

Read my lips, Chris: Being gay is not a choice.

Oh, and it doesn’t work:

“These practices have no basis in science or medicine and they will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery.”

Seriously? He’s pandering to people who reside in a previous century?

Seriously? Democrats actually admire this guy?

No Comments

Categories : Uncategorized

Tags : Chris Christie, gay conversion therapy, gay rights, gop fail, LGBT, lgbt rights, new jersey, repairative therapy, severely conservative

VIDEO: Gov. Chris Christie says “I hear you, boy, I hear you” to African American man during town hall meeting

Posted by GottaLaff

· Friday, March 15th, 2013 at 3:52 pm

· 9 Comments

This exchange took place in a Paterson, New Jersey church during a town hall meeting. Governor Chris Christie said this in response to an African American man who yelled out, “Fix the public schools!”

“You can yell all you want about ‘Fix the public schools.’ Yeah, I hear you, boy, I hear you.”

So was Christie calling the man “Boy,” or was he saying, “Boy, I hear you” as in, boy oh boy?

You tell me. My feeling is that, even if he didn’t mean to offend, he could have chosen his words more carefully to avoid any misunderstanding. What he did was insensitive and showed a need for more, erm, self-awareness, not exactly his forte.

HuffPo has more, including this:

At the same event, Christie referred to Democratic Speaker Sheila Oliver only by her race and gender, prompting the pastor at the church to demand an apology.

Meanwhile, please take another look at why Chris Christie really is, and never has been, the “moderate” people say he is: Enough about what a great Democrat Chris Christie would make, okay? and VIDEO: Chris Christie not conservative? Bull pucky. Check out his record and Think for yourself. Ask questions. Do your homework.

Boy oh boy, is he not Democrat material.

Via Raw Story and BlueJersey.com, h/t: reader Bruce.

9 Comments

Categories : Uncategorized

Tags : african american voters, Chris Christie, conservative asshat, new jersey, racism, severely conservative, town hall meeting, video

John McCain: “Rand Paul, Cruz, Amash, whoever” are “wacko birds.” Amash and Paul respond.

Posted by GottaLaff

· Friday, March 8th, 2013 at 4:57 pm

· No Comments

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) are getting the attention of John McCain, and you know what they say: Any attention is good attention, even if it’s negative attention. So his three conservative colleagues must be thrilled.

Or not.

Via HuffPo:

When I asked him if “these guys” — having just mentioned Amash, Cruz and Paul by name — are a “positive force” in the GOP, McCain paused for a full six seconds.

“They were elected, nobody believes that there was a corrupt election, anything else,” McCain said. “But I also think that when, you know, it’s always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.“

“I think it can be harmful if there is a belief among the American people that those people are reflective of the views of the majority of Republicans. They’re not,” he continued.

I asked McCain to clarify who, specifically, he was talking about.

“Rand Paul, Cruz, Amash, whoever,” McCain said.

But, via Taegan, it appears that Rand Paul shrugged it off. Here’s what he told Mike Huckabee:

“You know, I think he’s just on the wrong side of history, and on the wrong side of this argument, really… I treat Sen. McCain with respect. I don’t think I always get the same in return.”

Amash wasn’t quite as respectful:

No Comments

Categories : Uncategorized

Tags : filibuster, gop crazies, gop fail, John McCain, Justin Amash, Rand Paul, severely conservative, ted cruz

Lt. Col Barry Wingard is the lawyer for Gitmo detainee Fayiz Al-Kandari. For their ongoing story + related topics, please click on the link below:
Kuwaiti Citizen Detained at Guantanamo since 2002

You can read the complete story here or on Wikipedia.

Translate The Political Carnival via Google

TPC RSS Posts Feed

TPC Comments Feed

Our Facebook Fan Page

Shop Amazon's New Kindle Fire

Subscribe to The Political Carnival Newsfeed via Wikio

The Political Carnival is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

Photographs on The Political Carnival site (please read):

Photographs from other sources sometimes appear on TPC for humorous or illustrative purposes. As it is not our intention to use these images in any inappropriate manner or to infringe upon any rights held by others, anyone holding legal rights in the use of these images who wishes to have them taken down please contact us immediately requesting such removal, with which we will comply promptly.