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Reality Versus Chris Christie, Again

By Oliver Willis · July 30,2012

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You know things are bad when the genteel souls at the New York Times call out a politician for being phony. Christie has been going around claiming that he’s some kind of turnaround artist who has New Jersey on the rebound. But, reality.

But unfortunate facts offer less of a giggle. Comeback claims to the side, New Jersey displays few blushes of good health. When Mr. Christie took office, the state unemployment rate was 9.7 percent, which ranked 35th in the nation. Now the rate is 9.6 percent, which ranks 48th.

Hours worked are down, as are weekly and hourly earnings.

Moody’s Investor Services put a stethoscope to the state’s chest and didn’t care for what it heard. The second wealthiest state in the nation is falling short of revenue projections and lagging in the national recovery. The governor forecast that revenues would grow this year at a 7.3 percent rate, the fastest rate in the nation.

This forecast is intended to provide the intellectual underpinning for several billion dollars’ worth of proposed tax cuts. It is also — this is not, admittedly, the technical term chosen by the analysts for Moody’s — hallucinatory.

Christie ran on a somewhat moderate platform, but has governed from the right — with a healthy dose of ineptitude (he botched the state’s Race to the Top application, then blamed it on Obama) and a-hole thrown in.

No wonder Fox News loves him so much.

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oi ly

“I think if a Republican candidate had promised during the primaries that he’d call the President a ni- to his face he would have won the primary.”

I think they’ll settle for Klein’s The Amateur. A fine racist metonymy, or dog whistle …
Plunket

I think if a Republican candidate had promised during the primaries that he’d call the President a ni- to his face he would have won the primary

That’s a lie, el, you don’t think that at all. It’s nothing more than a wet-dream fantasy of yours.
enlightened liberal

Conservatives want Christie because he will say nasty things to and about Democrats. No discussion of his policies, his failure in creating jobs in NJ, his helicopter rides to personal functions on the state dime- just insulting his opponents. It is all the cons have left.

I think if a Republican candidate had promised during the primaries that he’d call the President a ni- to his face he would have won the primary.
Zython

New Jerseyites like his brashness

In other words, they like that he just angrily yells at people. Where’s the turns of phrases? Where’s the nuance? Where’s the finesse? Where’s the wit? I guess conservatives like insults that they don’t actually have to think about.
M2

The Museum of New Jersey Stereotypes in Trenton is especially happy with him.
enlightened liberal

Christie is an embarrassment- and to embarrass New Jersey, that’s saying something. He was lucky to be elected in the aftermath of the Bush economic meltdown, and since then has insulted constituents, cost the state economic growth through cancelling the Hudson River tunnel, and cost hundreds of millions through his bungling of “Race to the Top” applications.

As a true Republican, he blames everyone else for his failures.
- Plunket
  
  In a very liberal state, his approval ratings are even with Obama.
  
  No wonder liberal bloggers and nutroot commenters hate him so much.
  
  And can’t stop whining about him.
  
  He won. Corzine got trounced. New Jerseyites like his brashness. Get over it already.
Plunket

Apparently Corzine Democrats long for the good old days.

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