Screw you, Rep. Garrett

and don't forget (4.00 / 3)

workers and residents of southern Manhattan were LIED to by EPA Administrator Christie Whitman who said the air was safe to breath.

A federal judge said that Whitman's actions "shocked the conscience".

The government's lies greatly increase the responsibility to compensate those mad sick.

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by: Winston Smith @ Sat Jul 31, 2010 at 11:31:31 AM UTC

This is What a Real Democrat Looks and Sounds Like (4.00 / 3)

I pray that the New Jersey Democrats take a lesson from Anthony Weiner.

Weiner was intense and passionate, but his arguments here are SUBSTANTIAL and intellectually sound as well as morally compelling.

The Republican party of 2010 has been taken over by bullies and bigots.   Their agenda is servile to big business interests that rape and pillage the lives of the deluded working class and elderly that make up the ground troops of the tea party movement.

If John Corzine had been about to muster half of the heated visible and vocal passion and  the cold ineluctable hard LOGIC of Weiner's blessed outburst in this video....Jon Corzine would have kicked Christie's ass all over the state.

People voted for Chritie because he SOUNDS like he gives a shit about them.  Christie is a con man.    Christie, like Bernie Madoff is great at playing into people's selfishness and greed and making them feel like he's got a great "deal" for them.

As my friend, Adam correctly notes.....the same is true of Scott Garrett.   Scott Garrett is actually far more dangerous than Christie.   Christie is a con man.....but Garrett is a "Christian" fundamentalist fanatic who actually believes what he says.

Garrett needs to be politically taken apart by a hot and smart opponent who isn't afraid to manifest in the way Weiner does in this video.

Garrett's rationales for his votes are mostly ideological bullshit delivered in a quasi plausible manner......but when scrutinized come across as appeals to greed, selfishness, bigotry and fear.   The opposite of real Christianity in my humble opinion.

Surely there must be some ONE person in the 5th district who is willing and able to politically beat the bullshit out of Scott Garrett?

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by: Nick Lento @ Sat Jul 31, 2010 at 13:46:01 PM UTC

this guy (0.00 / 0)

We can't seem to get rid of this guy. He keeps winning and has a lot of people behind him. Where is the charismatic Dem that can take this guy down? For that matter, where is the moderate Republican that will primary him?  Nick, I agree, Corzine's biggest problem was that he looked like he didn't give a shit. He should have fought for something. I think if he fought for gay marriage, he would have won. Even if people disagreed with him, they would have respected his conviction. I heard people who voted for Bush the second time say that they couldn't stand Bush but gave him credit for having guts (or at least appeared to be decisive), in contrast to Kerry.  

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by: lil @ Sat Jul 31, 2010 at 14:44:25 PM UTC

Shake every friggin' hand in the district (4.00 / 1)

Defeating Scott Garrett is not going to be a matter of putting up a web site, getting on Facebook, or doing street theatre in front of Garrett's office.  There are three things that MUST be done, some of which WE can do without even having to put out effort for a particular candidate:

1)  Write letters to our newspapers.  Scott Garrett spends OUR money sending out what are essentially campaign flyers FROM HIS CONGRESISONAL OFFICE.  Each one of these needs to be pointed out and debunked.

2)  Get the word out to our neighbors about what he is.

3)  The candidate that is successful will somehow devote enough time to a campaign to go door-to-door in areas where independent voters predominate.  Bergen County, at least, tends to be a "party line" district, becuase of the way our voting machines are.  They aren't voting for Garrett because they know anything about him, they vote for him because they always vote Republican and he is on the Republican line.  (This is also how my town ended up with the same corrupt hacks and cronies who have been running it for 30 years in our first contested election in all that time last year.)

The 5th may be a Republican district, but it's not a bats**t crazy wingnut district.  Garrett MUST be exposed.

The candidate who will be successful against him will get OUT THERE and go door-to-door and shake every hand in the district and tell people what he stands for -- and what the implications are of what Garrett stands for.

It's not going to be easy to beat this stealth lunatic.  But I think the right candidate can do it.  The problem is that we have never had a candidate with the energy or the guts or the time or the sheer ruthlessness to do it.  

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by: brilliantatbreakfast @ Sun Aug 01, 2010 at 02:36:49 AM UTC