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The NY Times Takes Two More Left Jabs at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie

By Clay Waters | February 25, 2011 | 14:04

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Matt Bai’s upcoming New York Times Sunday Magazine cover profile of Chris Christie, New Jersey's attention-getting Republican governor, has its questionable moments, but the overall tone was far more temperate than a teaser the Times used to promote it, featured on the front page of nytimes.com Thursday evening.

The segment of Bai's long story the Times chose to highlight is one that just happens to feed into the liberal complaint that President Ronald Reagan stigmatized welfare recipients as "welfare queens." (Bai's reference to "welfare queens" in the text is milder in context.)

The teaser reads: "The governor of New Jersey became the most celebrated Republican in America by tagging public-sector workers -- especially teachers -- as 21st-century welfare queens."

 

The Times has certainly put Gov. Christie through the wringer lately, in both personal and political terms. Thursday’s skeptic-hunting piece by Richard Perez-Pena, “Raised Brows As Christie Dons Mantle Of Trailblazer,” criticized Christie for what Perez-Pena considered Christie’s misleading and self-promoting campaign rhetoric. Perhaps the Times sees him as Republican presidential material, even if Christie himself doesn't.

Gov. Chris Christie is a prolific denier that he is interested in running for president in 2012, but this week he billed himself as a different kind of national leader. When other states close budget deficits and curb rising costs, he said in unveiling his budget plan on Tuesday, they are reading from the New Jersey playbook.

Mr. Christie, a Republican, has made similar boasts in passing, but this time he devoted several minutes to crowning himself the role model for others.

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Another Democrat cited by Mr. Christie, Andrew M. Cuomo, has rarely made any public mention of the governor.

Not surprisingly, Republicans have been more effusive. When Mr. Christie campaigned for him last fall, John R. Kasich, now the governor of Ohio, called him “a great American leader.” And Scott Walker, now the Wisconsin governor, told The Wall Street Journal, “Chris Christie is the primo example of how you turn around government.”

But their offices did not return calls seeking reaction on Wednesday to Mr. Christie’s self-congratulations.

Experts on politics and state finances noted that the recession of 2007 to 2009, the bursting of the housing and credit bubbles, and the anemic economic recovery had left many states struggling with sharply lower tax revenue, depleted pension and benefit funds, and rising demands on programs like unemployment insurance and Medicaid. At the same time, federal stimulus aid to the states is running out.

Taking credit for leading the way on fiscal austerity under such conditions, they said, is a bit like claiming to be the first to start swimming when a flood sweeps through town.

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Clay Waters is the director of Times Watch, an MRC project tracking the New York Times. Click here to follow Clay Waters on Twitter.
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At least he's swimming.  How

Submitted by tampamom25 on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 2:49pm.

At least he's swimming.  How many Democrats are just running away like spoiled brats who can't get their own way?

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did anyone know this guys name-

Submitted by JIMMY1660 on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 2:57pm.

before he became Gov of NJ?

now he is rowing the boat in the Right direction-plenty of attention.

was he a fat man as prosecutor?

now he is two ton Tony

just as Sarah is getting plenty of attention-so is Chris-why-if they are so insignificant.

The truth being spoken is scary business.

Fast & Furious along with Solyndra are example of who BHO is BHO Policies have caused Failed Economy- Liberals = Wealth Re-distribution

 

 

 

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Democrats' Plan-put fingers in ears, sing "la la la" really loud

Submitted by TexasMom0517 on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 3:04pm.

Victor Davis Hanson has the mentality nailed:

http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-rise-of-the-adolescent-mind/

"There are lots of issues involved in Wisconsin, in the impending financial and fuel crises, and in the sense of American impotency abroad. Yet a common denominator is a national adolescence, in which we want what we have not earned. We demand the world be the way that it cannot; and we don’t wish to hear “unfair” arguments from “bad” and “mean” people."

 

Chris Christie is a GROWN UP and he's treating the citizens of his state as though they, too, are GROWN UPS.  

"My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." Barbara Jordan
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