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What's that saying about "When you piss everyone off, you know you're doing it right?"

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013 5:49 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Christie's done it:
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Republican Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday set an October special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat made vacant by Democrat Frank Lautenberg's death, giving voters the quickest possible say on who will represent them in Washington but preserving Christie as the top attraction on November's ballot.

Christie's primary day announcement means there will be statewide elections three weeks apart, a rare occurrence that Democrats immediately criticized as wasteful and designed to help the governor's political position by preventing the possibility he would be on the ballot with a well-known Democrat, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who's expected to pursue the Senate seat. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20130604/us-christie-s-choice
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Republicans, on the other hand, had hoped Christie would skip a special election and appoint a strong candidate who would fill the seat until the regularly scheduled 2014 election, so THEY'RE pissed at him now too:
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Republicans are fuming over New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's decision to hold an early special election to fill the seat of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg, with several Washington-based operatives suggesting he's putting his own interests ahead of the GOP's. The decision to hold a separate special election in October 2013—just two weeks before his own election—would give any interested Republican candidates little time to announce, organize a campaign, and raise the necessary money to take on a top-tier Democrat, likely Newark Mayor Cory Booker. http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/republicans-fuming-over-chris-
christie-s-senate-decision-20130604



Poor Chris Christie!

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013 6:17 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Oh, my, they really ARE pissed:
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Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey on Tuesday excoriated New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's (R) decision to hold a special election to fill the seat vacated by the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), accusing him of "debilitating stupidity" in not appointing a Republican outright.

"This is what rankles conservatives," Armey told CNN's Jake Tapper. "Now, I put it down as debilitating stupidity, the first rule of politics is don't lose the friends you already have for the friends you're never going to get. And if he thinks the Democrats are going to love him for being the guy who plays fair rather than takes the political opportunity he's crazy.

Christie said in a press conference on Tuesday that he wanted to do the “right thing” and let the people of the Garden State pick their own representative in the Senate. Christie will, however, likely appoint a Republican in the interim until the special election takes place in October.

"We must allow our citizens to have their say over who will represent them in the Senate for the majority of the next year-and-a-half," he said. "People of New Jersey deserve to have that voice.” http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/dick-armey-christie-driven
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Amazing he even says HIMSELF that Christie is "being the guy who plays fair"; that makes a heck of a statement, in my mind.


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Wednesday, June 5, 2013 6:53 AM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT


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Amazing he even says HIMSELF that Christie is "being the guy who plays fair"; that makes a heck of a statement, in my mind.




Yep, that says all I ever need to know about Dick Armey.

More in MY thread about death putting Christie in a bind. Teasing, Niki, OK?

E-T-A- Your header is just about exactly what I was going to post in comment.

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013 11:31 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Yeah, the two stories are why I started a separate thread (you knew I knew about yours, I posted in it). I found it amusing that both sides are pissed at him, tho' from what I'm seeing since then, it looks like the Republicans are MORE pissed...

Army also said "There's not a Democratic governor that wouldn't have seized the opportunity to appoint a Democrat senator, no matter what the status. In some states they may try to sell it and get rich off it as they did in Illinois. All Christie has to do is appoint a Republican. That's the correct move for him to make."

Yeah, ALL Democrats would do that...he subscribes to the Rap way of thinking, apparently...


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Thursday, June 6, 2013 4:52 PM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT


Christie appoints a "conservative Republican" to fill seat.

Guy named Jeffrey Chiesa, sounds like he was Christie's Karl Rove or Dick Cheney.

Classic Gray Davis, from here in California: "How do you paddle a canoe down the river? One stroke on the left, one stroke on the right, and you go straight."

But then Davis got recalled, didn't he, by the Birchites, the McClintocks, and the Arnold lovers?

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Thursday, June 6, 2013 5:01 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


I appreciate that he says at least the guy won't run in the special election; that keeps it "paddling straight". Doesn't matter that it changes the status in the Senate for a while; they're not accomplishing anything anyway, and with less than 60, they won't for any time to come, no doubt. I think he done good, did Christie (and it sounds like it shut some of the assholes up, for now anyway...maybe).


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Friday, June 7, 2013 2:35 AM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT


Yeah, I'm not really upset by his choice. But I don't know about the promise not to run. That's the kind of thing folks change their minds about, sometimes real quickly.

Time to watch and wait and see.

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Friday, June 7, 2013 8:34 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


When you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Don't mind me. I'm just a white young-ish male with no kids or a college education. Climbing twice up the ladder doesn't make "dick" to 99.2% of the hiring managers looking to hire your moron kids that skated by with C averages while doing keg-stands on the weekends....

Outside of the RWED, I try my best not to offend anyone.

Maybe I'm wasting my best material here?

Honestly, there's like 200 people in the world that are smarter than me, and 3 of them happen to post regularly here and they all largely disagree with my views....

I'll bet not one of the "200 smartest" has enough, or little-enough education to get an easy job without being labled overqualified.


I totally get the mentality though. Leading a "revolution" where I work currently would be just about 4 times as easy as it would have been at my old job. Funny, since I was paid just about 4 times more to work at the old job, plus health and retirement be1nefits....

My salary was shipped to India. There are 10 men and Women in India living very comfortably today off of my single salary from 2009. All three men are named "Elvis" and they're going to fool you into thinking they're American when you call because your router went down.....


I could keep being a bummer, or just post this awesome video by UK Girl Group, Girls Aloud!






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