Sunday Morning News and Notes

NFL picks to follow.

Here's the news:

-Sarah Palin knocks 'em dead at the Gridiron Dinner. The loud and rambunctious Barney Frank was overshadowed; a news event in itself.

-The Inquirer dutifully tells us that Corzine's loss in New Jersey had nothing to do with Obama even though it had a great deal to do with Obama.

-When even Trudy Rubin notes the Obama plan for Af-Pak is going to be construed as weak, you know it's a sign of weakness. Will someone please alert Greg Sheridan.

-Dude, the Tiger Woods story just get nastier and nastier. Why even get married?

-Montgomery Burns had a nice election in NYC and it didn't cost him a penny. No word on what Smithers said about it.

-Dana Milbank, Obama love and broken hopes. The media is inconsolable that the savior of their collective dreams is not exactly what he seemed.

Spitting Venom

I'm pissed.

I'm pissed that I haven't had the time to post anything.

I'm pissed that the media spun a monumental electoral shift in New Jersey that was directly attributable to Obama and his policies into a story where it wasn't. I am happy I won't have to look at Corzine's fucking face anymore.

I'm pissed that the Stupak amendment was a big friggin' joke to the Dems and one GOP'er actually was cajoled to vote for the healthcare monstrosity that will forever burden us with heavy debt and poor medical choices.

I'm pissed that the FBI and other arms of the government had information that a Muslim soldier was potentially in contact with our enemies and did nothing resulting in numerous innocent people dead. I'm happy that one brave woman--Sgt. Kimberly Munley (pictured with her kids at right)--took down the terrorist scumbag while heroically putting her life on the line.

I'm pissed that the stimulus bill was passed and we now have 10% unemployment while it resulted in no significant job creation; only the padding of union leader's pockets.

I'm pissed that we have a president who is so insecure that he could not even mention Ronald Reagan when discussing the fall of the Berlin Wall.

I'm f-ing pissed.

More posting later if I can find the damn time.

Friday Morning News & Notes

It's a good day when the Yankees choke as they did last night. They had the chance to wrap it up after a nice come-back and gave up three to lose it. Sweet.

Anyway, here's what's new in the world:

-New Jersey pays Goldman-Sachs a million a month for non-existent bonds. Is anyone happier than Goldman-Sachs that Obama got elected and Corzine rules NJ?

-The Virginia gubernatorial election is widely seen as a referendum on Obama and a harbinger of what we'll see during next years mid-terms. The Dem is tanking after heavy support from The One and the administration is adding him to the long list of those thrown under the bus that includes his mother, grandmother, Rev. Wright, Father Pfleger....

-So much for that whole transparency thing Obama promised. It's gone the same way as closing Gitmo, ending the war in Iraq, supporting the troops in Afghanistan, Don't Ask Don't Tell...

-The Obama administration's obsession over Fox News just isn't healthy. He's like that girl that gets dumped and starts stalking the dude who dumped her confronting his new girlfriend and threatening her. Except he's a stalker with the entire government behind him. Roger Ailes may find a rabbit boiling on the stove soon.

-The Chicago Way is the way of Obamanation. Be on the lookout for a baseball bat.

The First Election Cycle During Obamanation

The first election cycle after we became a post-racial nation, which is loved by the entire world is set to take place in a month. How will the GOP do being as they've been handle a gift of epic proportions. The Dems gave us Obama and he's tanked in ways we couldn't have dreamed, faster than anyone thought possible. Will the GOP do what they always do and blow every single political opportunity afforded them or take the ball and break the plane?

The first glimpse we'll have into whether Nobama can lead his party forward or over a cliff is about to play out in the bluest of blue states--my home state of New Jersey:

Corzine's chances of winning re-election now are no better than they were a month ago. The governor continues to be stuck between 38 percent and 42 percent in the ballot test, where he has been for many months, and the fundamentals of the race continue to favor the Republican challenger.

Corzine was at 39 percent among likely voters in the newest Quinnipiac survey, not much different from his 37 percent showing at the end of August, his 40 percent showing in early August or his 38 percent showing in mid-July.

The most recent Quinnipiac poll showed Christie leading Corzine by 4 points because the Republican's vote has slipped from 46 percent or 47 percent in other Quinnipiac surveys to 43 percent. In turn, Independent candidate Chris Daggett's number in the ballot test has risen to 12 percent in the most recent Quinnipiac poll, up from the 7 percent to 9 percent he had been drawing in other recent Quinnipiac surveys.

The media want you to believe Corzine's got a shot because it is of great significance and a loss by Corzine--whom The One has campaigned pretty hard for--would show that the presidents coattails are pretty short indeed. If a buffoon like Christie who would never have a shot in any other year can win, all bets are off for 2010.

Update: We're seeing it in Pennsylvania as well where Pat Toomey is making a move past the zombie Arlen Specter.

Sunday Morning News and Notes

My son is still playing in the USSSA World Series having played four games in less than sixteen hours yesterday. A win this morning puts them in the championship later today.

Here's what's news:

-The New Jersey gubernatorial race is heating up and Republican Chris Christie has a commanding lead in every poll over incumbent Jon Corzine. This may be an outlier for the 2010 congressional and Senate elections.

-Via Jersey Nut, we have this CNN host looking somewhat dumbfounded that the light of The One does not outshine that of the redneck cowboy living in Crawford, TX:



-Obama heading down the Carter highway? When the WaPo asks, it's time to reassess your policies.

-We all knew it and the Paulistinians voraciously denied it but Ron Paul is a Truther.

-Destroying the economy to save it.

New Jerseyans Go to the Polls

Today we find out who will take on Jon Corzine in the November gubernatorial election. the two leading Republicans are former US Attorney Chris Christie and former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan. Lonegan is the conservative while Christie is the more moderate.

I voted for Lonegan as he is a fiscal hawk and would at least attempt to cut spending, rein in taxes and cut the government payrolls. plus he won't kiss the ass of every single labor union from Cape May County to Sussex County. The problem is that conservatives just can't get elected in this liberal state and that's the downside of Lonegan. He does edge Corzine by a single point but Christie leads him by nine as of two weeks ago.

Christie on the other hand talks like a fiscal conservative as they all do to win the primary but he's an unknown on spending. He's going to win and that may be a good thing as he's the only one of the two who could beat Corzine come fall. Either we keep a liberal tax and spender akin to all the other former Wall Street bigwigs in the Democratic party (and Obama administration) or we get a moderate Republican. The lesser of two evils.

Turnout is expected to be very low so I guess anything could happen but Christie is up in the polls big.

Playing Politics With Pay to Play

New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine is in a bind. He's trailing in most polls and faces an uphill battle to maintain the chief executive spot in the state. So what does he do; lower property taxes? Lower the sales tax? Uh no, he cheats:

A sweeping pay-to-play ban that curtails the ability of candidates to raise money - effectively handing an advantage to wealthy politicians who can fund their campaigns - will be tested for the first time in this year's governor's race.

...The untested campaign-finance law was written by former Gov. Jim McGreevey in 2004 just before he stepped down. At the time, McGreevey's administration was awash in a series of scandals.

McGreevey's executive order banned the state from awarding contracts of more than $17,500 to companies in which high-ranking officials contributed more than $300 to a gubernatorial candidate or state or county party organization.

So what does that mean? That means that challenger Chris Christie or Steve Lonegan will be unable to tap into the companies who have business with the state effectively cutting them off and in this state, everyone has a contract where state money is involved, me included.

But Corzine didn't just stop at the McGreevey parameters, he strengthened it more under the guise of stopping pay to play:

McGreevey's order covered contributors who controlled 10 percent or more of companies getting state contracts. Corzine included any partner, officer, or principal of a vendor firm, further limiting the number of people who would be willing to contribute to gubernatorial campaigns.

Because Corzine is funding his own campaign, he won't have to worry much about that law. But independent candidate Chris Daggett and the survivor of the increasingly heated Republican primary will.

Corzine is scamming the system to protect his seat and that is about as anti-American as any law can be. He's put together an elaborate ruse and effectively has shut down his opposition from obtaining money from a major source.

We're not Illinois politics but we're a close second.

Tea Party in NJ

Jersey Nut has pics from the Statehouse in Trenton:

Not bad for a weekday in a city that's not exactly convenient for a lunchtime trip.

New Jersey Tea Party

My home state is hurting as well and Gov. Corzine will have to spend every cent he's got to win. Taxes are going up and jobs are being lost with the earthquake on Wall Street decimating the bedroom communities of North Jersey.

It appears people have had more than enough:

New Jersey 101.5 FM is getting increased reaction too, which prompted the station to come up with its Empty Wallet Convoy so New Jersey residents can show Corzine and the Legislature they’ve had enough taxes, fees, lies and condescending attitude from people feathering their nests with tax money.

Starting at 8 a.m. Thursday, the station’s yellow vans will be collecting empty wallets at rest stops along the Garden State Parkway. That continues until Friday afternoon. The wallets will be delivered by The Jersey Guys, Casey Bartholomew and Ray Rossi, to the Statehouse “in a hearse signifying the death of the middle class in New Jersey.”

And Corzine is doing everything to please his liberal base and make it worse.

Too bad I'm on the other side of the country and can't participate but will post pics once they become available.

NJ Becomes Second State to Piss on Constitution

Gov. Corzine has been living the liberal dream in the last few weeks. First he signed a bill eliminating the death penalty, then he raised tolls (a hidden tax increase) on the three most-traveled NJ roads and finally he gets to piss on the Constitution of the US:

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey on Sunday became the second state to enter a compact that would eliminate the Electoral College's power to choose a president if enough states endorse the idea.

Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed legislation that approves delivering the state's 15 electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. The Assembly approved the bill last month and the Senate followed suit earlier this month.

Maryland — with 10 electoral votes — had been the only state to pass the compact into law.

The measure could result in the electoral votes going to a candidate opposed by voters in New Jersey, which has backed Democratic presidential candidates since 1988.

Liberals abhor the electoral college and have been pushing to get rid of it since Al Gore was beaten in 2000. This time they think they have enough backing to get it done but the Supreme Court will have their say before it's over.

Corzine has proven to be much more of a liberal tax and spender than even I feared and we're going to see his policies get more and more extreme every time he gets away with something like this.

Hey, Corzine smarter than all those fuddy-duddy Constitution framers, right?