Watch and learn. Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey holds a clinic for conservative politicians the world over.
UPDATE: Yanked by the Star-Ledger. There’s another copy here. You might download and save it while you still can.
Meanwhile, it’s business as usual in Ottawa….
They [Canadians] don’t want someone to speak about reality.
Oh, come now: nor do Americans. See: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the poltical graveyard that awaits anyone touching these.
Much of the anti-Obamacare movement was seniors essentially saying “hands off MY medicare” NOT government get out of my life!
Sasquatch, my good man:
Me No Fencepost Liberal? LOL. Classical liberal maybe. I’m a libertarian. At one point a minarchist, now more a anarcho-capitalist or, a descriptor I prefer, private property anarchist. I’ve come to feel that it is impossible to shrink the state. I’m for abolition of the state, period. I know it’s hopeless, but so is this ever-refreshed hope in the promise of a new politician, which I find to be childish.
Dave’s right man.
McGuinty could rape Ontario, drive us into deep deficit, drive up the cost of energy so that everyone is paying more hydro and people would still vote for them. (Oh wait he did).
Canada is complacent right now, we’re not in the biggest of trouble. New Jersey is. Wait until we get there, then people might wake up.
Harper and his gutless bunch could learn something from this guy….
I don’t think the political parties in Canada realise how utterly freaking fed up we the people are with their arrogant snotty entitled attitudes. The fact that they can lawfully deny we the people the right to audit their expense accounts tells me that we are on the cusp of a thugacracy. Harper sure doesn’t seem to speak out clearly or openly to we the people. We need to change, because our current crop of Politicians don’t give a damn about us or this nation, my opinion only.
Yeah!! ‘love it when people act tough and mighty! This “I ain’t takin it no more” diatribe is exactly what I’m looking to have regurgitated to me over and over again when I visit websites that are in line with my political opinions.
Let’s see, that’s three comments on the same theme, posted through a German anonymizer. Getting under your skin, am I?
Escape hatch.
Yeah, he said a bunch with just those two words.
Escape hatch baby.
Honest and refreshing 🙂
Cjunk at May 14, 2010 12:19 PM
I agree with you but the Conservatives are playing with a stacked deck (against them) with the establishment media.
Canada has its own peculiar history of “familly compact” government. And it still exists today – the Desmarais (liberal) familly. For them, Canada is their natural fiefdome.
well Robert, I spent some time yesterday watching B. Hussien Tv, so yeah, this qualifies as “honest and refreshing” … it’s “perspective” 😉
and as someone else said, I’d like whatever he had for breakfast served to the Conservatives in Canada.
An old cowboy once told me that “Actions speak louder than words”. I would stack what PM Harper has done against what any US Governor or President has done any day.
Reagan the Great Communicator really didn’t change the US. Witness the election of Clinton a scant 4 years after Reagan left office. I am hoping that PM Harper’s legacy will be a bit longer lasting. From what I have seen it probably will.
R of O-
Are you not still paying the “family” for services rendered?
I believe they got a successful “cut” of the Oil-for-Food biz.
When do they get their chessboard “bumped”?
While they’re vacuuming up all them there nickels…
Video …. gone.
Did anyone save the video? Would love to see it.
Here is a link to another site that has the video embedded…
See Indyposted
Not a bad news site there!
Video is still up at American Digest
Tom Moran’s (he’s the reporter that asked the question) website also has the video up.
 The comments on Moran’s website suggest NJ taxpayers tire of being slaves to a government that is supposed to serve them.
 Dependants of the state also respond, demanding to retain their share of other people’s money.
Thanks, that was great.
“cities east of Manitoba”
Cough. Cough. You mean east of Saskatchewan. Manitoba is Canada’s Cuban province minus the cigars and the missiles, but with the Federal Transfer payments befitting its status as Canada’s largest urban reserve.
Like you, Joe, I am very proud of what our Prime Minister has done to date. The msm have a juvenile hatred for PMSH. They gush over Hussein Obama and they gush over trashy Liberals and Dippers; terrorists… the msm want their ‘entitlements’ and they will sink to any level of misinformation to get their greedy little paws back in the Fed piggy bank. The simple fact that the msm despises PMSH should be sufficient evidence for any thinking citizen to back this fine man 100%.
BTW Glen Beck is mopping the floor with Unca Mo right now – I wonder if some of the Oil for $$ folks in the Liberano Party/ msm Liberano camp crumb gatherers are feeling a bit nauseous vomiting in their mouths (A ‘Beckism’ Cjunk used above). The screeching and flopping in the media and in the Troika coalition are a ‘cry for help’; some people here appear to be extending a hand!
I do agree with what you have said, Dave.
We need not get our knickers in a knot because our Prime Minister is not fool enough to throw out the baby with the bathwater. PMSH is the Prime Minister of Canada; maybe we should target more of our disgust at some very weak limp wristed Premiers (including Conservative Premiers). We need a fresh batch of Premiers across Canada, the only Premiers worth their paychecks are Brad Wall and Danny Williams. Danny stands up for the citizens of Newfoundland because they are the people he serves. Brad Wall has pulled Saskatchewan out of the Red Commie Hell of failure…the rest of the batch, not so much.
New Jersey is almost as rotten as New York.
ALMOST? Dude.
Since “small government” is a common theme in many posts, as someone who is “government” to a whole lot of Canadians, I’ll leave you with a couple of thoughts:
The only democratic expression of Parliament comes from government – the civil service. Everything else is theatre. If government is to act democratically, it will be me that will do it, not politicians, nor parliament, nor voters. It will be me that makes it democratic when government takes action. It may not be my orders, but it is my mandate.
If you want smaller government, you have to elect politicians who will rescind statutes, who will promise to enact no new laws – only fine-tune, rescind or amend existing laws. Have that conversation with a candidate sometime – I guarantee it will be an illuminating and fun experience.
Every law passed, expanded or tweaked requires oversight if its going to be applied equitably, or according to its directives. That requires civil servants. There is no escaping this. Reducing the number of civil servants without a reduction in the legal overburden only guarantees non-compliance and inequality of administration. It only guarantees misapplication of law to maintain public perception of political action. Given to their own devices, Canadians will only obey laws they believe will lead to personal penalty if they don’t. The rest are for others to follow, and that requires civil servants to make sure they do… LOL!
Every high profile politician in the free world is a puppet of the global banksters and the powerful elite…Christie might be speaking honestly and from the heart right now but would his words be followed by real action say his accession took him all the way to the White House?
I simply do not trust any politician anymore…They do not serve the people. Period.
Big changes are coming world wide…We are at a crossroad.
Total tyranny and enslavement is leading the match right now again’st Mr. freedom and self determination who is weak, limping and bloodied.
Ain’t lookin good.
Listening to these Harpies is just amazing. “We can’t convince the progressives, so lets try anyway and bury our principles”. The mindless love of Dear Leader is the worst thing that has ever happened to the Canadian Right. We need to split (as in ‘reestablish’) the Federal Right. At worst, it’ll be like the ’90s when the government cut back the civil service, balanced the budget, and cut the odd tax. Save us Bernier!
Is the revival of the ‘ghost’ of the UN/Unca Mo/Liberano/Dumbocrate involvement in the starvation of Iraqi people for the benefit of evil people hater’s bank accounts getting your dander up; Cytoxic? Glenn Beck is watched by millions of people.
The rats clear the decks when the sun rises.
Could you possibly make less sense?
You don’t need to vote Liberal because the Conservatives ARE the Liberals. I mean, Harper has done just about everything the Libs have asked for, including spending money WE DON’T HAVE, in order to “soften” a recession (yet to become a depression).
I agree with CJunk. Is there a friggin conservative, straight talking, straight shooting leader amongst them? I say not.