Madness in Trenton

Poor Leadership by Sweeney is to Blame (4.00 / 2)

Consider this another failure on the LONG list of failures to be attributed to Sweeney and the Christiecrat agenda.

Sweeney either played the people or played the fool but no matter how you look at it, Sweeeny played for Christie like a cheap, Tijuana marionette. He assumed that selling out the public workers would earn him some kind of credit with Christie? There are really only two ways to read such a pathetic failure by Sweeney; he did it on purpose or he is the worst political leader New Jersey has seen in decades.

Todays reiteration of Christies's ability to either pull the strings on Sweeney and the state legislature or deny them any real influence just proves the ineffectual nature of the current leadership in both houses and how that ineffectual leadership makes Christie even more dangerous than he was presumed to be.

Thanks, Sweeney, Oliver, "Nordubato" and all the rest of the Christiecrats, you just gave the Right-wing, middle-class destruction machine one more victory through disasterous leadership.

Hear that giggling? That is Christie enjoying the satisfaction of knowing he OWNS both houses as well as the governorship.


If we don't stand together, we fall alone
That didn't last long.

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by: Couch Potato Politics @ Mon Jul 11, 2011 at 19:49:04 PM UTC

There's so much to be mad about (0.00 / 0)

It's on days like today that I envy, just a little, those people who choose to remain ignorant of the goings-on in Trenton. After all, there is so much to be mad about: the servitude of the Senate GOP to Christie's every whim, the abject failure of the Democratic legislative leadership team, the false choices being peddled as necessary, the roughshod way in which one of the country's best public education systems is being chipped away at. To know this state's politics, even only tangentially, is an exercise is keeping down one's lunch.

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by: Alex @ Mon Jul 11, 2011 at 22:14:55 PM UTC

The kabuki dance continues (4.00 / 1)

The Senate will take up the override of remaining items tomorrow. I'll be there live tweeting under the @bluejersey stream.

Blog: http://www.deciminyan.org

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by: deciminyan @ Tue Jul 12, 2011 at 00:08:14 AM UTC

Republicans can't claim to care (0.00 / 0)

if fiscal restraint trumps compassion ala Allen. What are the Democrats demonstrating that we didn't know already? Just to get Republicans on the record? That record is a broken one, and we knew what they would do already. Must be playing to the Independents. If anything, the Republicans are making Sweeney and Oliver look weak (as we knew), and Sweeney's "I'm not gonna support tenure reform and merit pay... so there! Take that Christie Potter... But don't worry Georgie, I'll take care of you." is more of what we know to expect from weak Dems in action when Nordubato pulls the strings. Get some real Democratic leadership in the ring already. Republicans aren't compromising, and they're the minority? Could've fooled me.

Here's an appropriate analogy. Madness, Looney, what's the difference? Interpret them however you like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

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by: FreeDem @ Tue Jul 12, 2011 at 00:43:48 AM UTC

Republicans can't claim to care (0.00 / 0)

if fiscal restraint trumps compassion ala Allen. What are the Democrats demonstrating that we didn't know already? Just to get Republicans on the record? That record is a broken one, and we knew what they would do already. Must be playing to the Independents. If anything, the Republicans are making Sweeney and Oliver look weak (as we knew), and Sweeney's "I'm not gonna support tenure reform and merit pay... so there! Take that Christie Potter... But don't worry Georgie, I'll take care of you." is more of what we know to expect from weak Dems in action when Nordubato pulls the strings. Get some real Democratic leadership in the ring already. Republicans aren't compromising, and they're the minority? Could've fooled me.

Here's an appropriate analogy. Madness, Looney, what's the difference? Interpret them however you like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

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by: FreeDem @ Tue Jul 12, 2011 at 00:43:49 AM UTC

So you consider that 1% (0.00 / 1)

of taxpayers that pay 40% of income taxes getting a tax break ? "while  those at the bottom pay little or nothing."....... where idd you go yo school  

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by: speedkillsu @ Tue Jul 12, 2011 at 13:35:04 PM UTC

Oh, the irony (0.00 / 0)

where idd you go yo school

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by: Alex @ Tue Jul 12, 2011 at 14:16:32 PM UTC

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The (0.00 / 0)

Orrin Hatch School of Finance.

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by: SmartyJones @ Tue Jul 12, 2011 at 14:32:13 PM UTC

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"those at the bottom" (0.00 / 0)

are not low enough, eh?  

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by: Nowlan @ Tue Jul 12, 2011 at 16:11:46 PM UTC

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As percentage of income, they pay LESS (4.00 / 1)

and economists agree that they are paying a significantly lesser percentage of income than middle class to the detriment OF the middle class.

As a whole, the tax rate is the lowest it's been in more than 50 years and that is ON PAPER. Take loopholes, shelters, deductables and the myriad other tax avoidance and deferment vehicles into account and the tax table being enjoyed by the richest is the lowest in has EVER been in the entire history of the nation.

Taxes are a cost for enjoying the fruits of the NATION and when you consider that the lions share of the nations prosperity is earned on the backs and feet of the MIDDLE CLASS and WORKING POOR, the richest have had it far too cheap for far too long.

Now they horde cash, hold the economy hostage, searching for the ability to pay NO TAXES and REAP ALL the rewards while the middle class disappears and the poor become destitute.

Is that the world YOU want to live in, speedkillsu?

And, by the way, the poorest DO pay taxes in ways you never consider. Poverty has a whole myriad of untitled taxes and penatlies that, ironically, feed the very rich who thrive on the labor of the middle class and poor. Check-cashing services, pay-day loan services, higher interest schemes for BEING POOR... and the list goes on and on.

I used to be poor and I paid for the curse of that poverty through so many predatory business practices that i thought the cycle would never end. Now that I am on the other side of that table, I want to see things change and I write my tax checks every month with the full knowledge and appreciation that i am paying forward for what was paid forward for me when I lived in poverty and was saved from being destitute by social programs like welfare, food stamps, medicaid and medi-cal (california based).


If we don't stand together, we fall alone
That didn't last long.

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by: Couch Potato Politics @ Tue Jul 12, 2011 at 17:03:19 PM UTC

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