In a move sure to anger Republicans, Chris Christie defied his own party by defending the Medicaid expansion and blasting partisanship.
"This government in Trenton is about trying to change this hyper-partisan activity that we have all over the country and asking some very simple questions,” Christie said. “How can we most effectively, efficiently and fairly deliver services to people in the state who need them. And I don’t care whether those people are Democrats or Republicans or Indepedents. What I care about is if they’re in need and we can do it in an effective, efficient way that we do it."
I know, I praise Christie, for some things, and want to chastise him for others. I wish he would get fed up with the GOP like Charlie Crist did, but he doesn't have alot of things in common with the other party like Crist, now a Democrat does.
Sequester, or not, we have to fix the unemployment, or the underemployment problem. Bridges and all sorts of other things need to be repaired, and in some cases rebuilt! Keep talking about these things please. I agree that the minimum wage needs to be raised, for the simple reality that ther will always be people working these jobs, because retail will never go away, neither will the restauant business, or the hotel-industry. It should be raised to $10.00 an hour!! People of all ages work these jobs and deserve to be paid, enough. Most of the jobs are at big companies anyway-GOP, so stop your lying!
Pat, Grand Lake Co
3/5/2013 11:04:26 PM
Face it, Christie's not from some stupid redneck red state, where voters can be whipped up by fox news and rush limbaugh and vote for the racist republican over and over.
NJ is one of the best educated states in the country. Christie won't get away with the dumbass republican crap for long in NJ. No offense Linda. Texas' day is coming.
linda, virginia
3/5/2013 9:55:59 PM
The repubs have found another way to delay doing anything worthwhile. GOP spending bill blocks funding for ACORN...ACORN does not exist. ACORN did nothing wrong and was brought down by republican lies. The repubs are wasting our time and our money by doing nothing...............
linda, virginia
3/5/2013 5:34:25 PM
I wish Christy would change parties......I think he is toast within the repub party....., no future there. He is agreeing with the president because he is in a blue state and he wants re-elected and needs democrat votes.....not enough repubs there to get him re-elected. He may not be the brightest blub in the shed but he knows this much.......
ksker
3/5/2013 4:06:28 PM
Christie is not one of the “brightest bulbs” in the admittedly ‘dim witted’ lamp of the Republican Party.
The only reason he gained 30 points in his popularity is because he tagged along behind the President, grasping at his coat tails, after Hurricane Sandy.
He wasn't smart enough to use stimulus money to create jobs in New Jersey, choosing to fire public employees rather than rebuilding infrastructure.
Now, he’s jumping on the “Obama-Care” bandwagon, when there is no other intelligent choice to make. As if, he is making some kind of “stand” against his party.
Christie isn't smart enough to think on his own past popularity polls, which we all know are “here today and gone tomorrow”.
Linda S Houston
3/5/2013 3:46:03 PM
We here in Texas have a governor who doesn't give a crap about any of us. He took the stimulus money, gave the President the middle finger, then used it to pay down the deficit and annointed himself a fiscal conservative. Oh, but that doesn't apply to the retirement pension he is sitting there and collecting while simultaneously collecting his full salary. He was fighting for that godforsaken superhighway to run from Mexico to Canada while simultaneously declaring his state sovereignty and possible secession.
Then he decided to run for First Preacher while on serious drugs for a back ailment and proceeded to embarrass the daylights out of all Texans and made us a laughing stock.
I'd trade him for Christie in a New Jersey minute.
ron mariposa
3/5/2013 3:41:14 PM
He isnt going to cpac and I wonder why? The gop=tea baggers wont allow for this type of talk and I just wish he would call them out for the obstructionist ways. We need people on both sides to work together, but I know the gop=tea baggers wont so poor christie is whisling in the wind
Linda S Houston
3/5/2013 3:39:27 PM
I think that hurricane scared the bejeebers out of him. We have them almost every year down here so we are used to it. Perhaps he will see the error of his ways when it comes to some of his more ultra conservative views on unions, public schools and the like. He's still young, he has alot to learn.
He obviously doesn't need the CPAC wackos. His approval ratings are high without them.
I am, however, going to praise him for fighting for the people, the ones who have suffered the most as a result of the storm. The high and mighty don't ever seem to be affected by these things.
Rob, Oregon
3/5/2013 10:52:19 AM
Christie dares compromise?? That's just not the lock step obstructionist righty way. We need more of that talk, and less clones on their knees for the obscenely wealthy, if we are to make any progress whatsoever.
donnajoy
3/5/2013 10:52:08 AM
To bad that Christie is anti-unions and anti--public schools and is so pro-corporate tax reductions and private charter schools. On surface he seems moderate but his actions as governor are more conservative.
