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What price Christie? cont’d

Featured image We now resume our long running series testifying to the singular strengths of Chris Christie as a presence on the national scene. Ambushed by Washington Post opinion writer/editorial board member Jonathan Capehart regarding his veto of a gay marriage bill in New Jersey, Christie, shall we say, more than held his own on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. According to Noel Sheppard, Christie smacked him down. According to me, Christie showed Capehart »

What price Christie? NR’s look

In a series of posts titled “What price Christie?” we have watched with great admiration the arguments presented by Governor Chris Christie to the people of New Jersey concerning the need to get a grip on state spending and taxation. We have seized on the dramatic videos in which Governor Christie makes his case, but we have done so without placing them in the context of the political battles in »

What price Christie? part 7

For readers who are new to this series, let me repeat my explanation of the title. In Volume V of Martin Gilbert’s monumental biography of Churchill (Winston S. Churchill:The Prophet of Truth: 1922-1939), we learn that an enormous poster appeared in the Strand and at other prominent points around London in the last week of July 1939. Placed by an advertising agent who was anxious “to get people thinking of »

What price Christie? part 6

Kyle Smith observes the doings of Governor Chris Christie in New Jersey this year and notes: “Chris Christie may look like Chris Farley, but in terms of conservative principles he’s as sexy as Christie Brinkley.” He then recounts Christie’s response to the reporter who suggested that he might be a bit “confrontational” in the video we posted in the first number of this series: Watching Christie respond was a revelation. »

What Price Christie? Part 5

These days, there is no more effective public servant than New Jersey’s governor Chris Christie. In this CNBC video, he runs a victory lap following the New Jersey legislature’s adoption of his austerity budget on a bipartisan basis. The budget closes a massive deficit by cutting spending by 9%, with no increased taxes. Every special interest group hated the budget, and some have threatened to sue. Governor Christie’s response: “If »

What Price Christie? Part 4

Who is the most inspiring conservative leader in America today? Happily, there are a number of pretty good answers to that question. But I’m not sure anyone tops New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Here he is again, speaking at a town hall meeting in Perth Amboy yesterday: UPDATE: So, how is Christie doing with New Jersey voters? Pretty well. Scott Rasmussen finds his approval/disapproval ratio at 51/45. Considering how deeply »

What price Christie? part 3

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has only been on the job since January, but he is already engaged in a death struggle with New Jersey’s public sector unions. He is articulate, combative, committed, spirited. He does not shy away from the fight. I don’t think we’ve seen his like in quite a while. If he survives and/or prevails, he will be an unstoppable force. I can’t get enough of the »

What Price Christie? Part 2

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is the new hero of conservatives everywhere. Earlier today, he showed why when he conducted a town hall meeting in Bergen County. In the video below (via Cassy Fiano) he responds to a teacher who thinks she is underpaid, and someone who is outraged that state funding for the local library is slated to be cut: »

What price Christie? cont’d

Responding to “What price Christie?” a reader writes from New Jersey: I think you have to have lived in NJ for a while to really appreciate what Christie is trying to do. You might be surprised to learn that there are four branches of government in NJ: executive, legislative, judicial, and NJEA (NJ Education Association — the teachers’ union). Of the four, the last one is the most powerful. Never »

What price Christie?

It was widely noted by Ted Bromund and others last year that upon entering office President Obama returned a bronze bust of Winston Churchill. The bust had been on loan as a symbol of the Special Relationship from the British Government to the United States since 9/11. According to Newsweek’s report, a White House spokesman said the Churchill bust was removed before Obama’s inauguration as part of the usual changeover »

Chris Christie rides again

Roger Kimball takes note of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s latest video hit: I almost felt sorry (almost) for Marie Corfield, an elementary school teacher who stood up at a question-and-answer session with the governor and demanded to know how his reforms would help teachers since his budget cuts had resulted in so many lay-offs among the selfless pedagogues that populate New Jersey’s public schools. “We have some of the »

Christie in context

The BusinessWeek profile of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie supplies the political context of the several videos we have posted in our “What price Christie?” series. Will Governor Christie prevail in the Battle of New Jersey? He himself leaves it an open question, as he did in his interview with Paul Gigot earlier this summer. The BusinessWeek profile broadly outlines the challenges involved in Christie’s struggle to reduce New Jersey’s »

A great communicator

We have hailed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in a series of posts titled “What price Christie?” The video below demonstrates that one element of his leadership is exemplary rhetorical skills. The guy is a great communicator. Is there anybody else like him on the Republican side? I don’t think anyone else comes close. In the video below he is asked the question whether he is going to fire anyone »

The Week in Pictures: Houthi and the Blowhard Edition

Featured image So it’s Houthi and the Blowhard now playing at the Red Sea right now. Biden sent another strongly worded letter to the Houthis, which the British thought should be accompanied with some cruise missiles and drone strikes. Biden is likely thinking, “Golly, I didn’t know we could do that! I mean, my Defense Secretary never told me! Actually he doesn’t tell me much of anything.” Meanwhile, in the Annals of »

Turning America Into a Third-World Country

Featured image The mark of a developed country is reliable, affordable energy. Despite this undeniable fact, the Biden administration and what Robert Bryce calls the anti-industry industry are rushing pell-mell to destabilize our electric grid, while charging Americans more and more for less and less electricity. This impoverishment of ordinary Americans is not an unfortunate by-product of liberal energy policies. Rather, it is the central goal of those policies. Bryce writes at »

Thoughts from the ammo line

Featured image Ammo Grrrll has AN OPEN LETTER TO DON AND RON. She writes: Dear Mr. President (45) and Governor DeSantis: This is more or less a mash letter to both of you. With a plea that is actually a prayer. So who am I, you ask? Nobody. Not even a washed-up singer or actress tweeting semi-literate obscenities and calling everyone a Nazi. Heck, I’m not on Facebook, Twitter or even Truth »

My Books of 2021

Featured image An old friend texted me last week to ask why I hadn’t done a post on books I read in 2021. There is no particular reason; I did such a post in 2019, but I don’t think I did one last year. But it is fun to think back and try to reconstruct my reading over the last year, and some of our readers may be interested in my reactions »