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Furious Chris Christie Rips John Boehner Over Canceled Sandy Vote in Heated Presser

Jan. 2, 2013 3:18pm Madeleine Morgenstern

A furious New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie unloaded on House Speaker John Boehner Wednesday following the cancellation of a promised vote for Hurricane Sandy relief, saying the people of his state were “played last night as a pawn” by his own Republican Party.

“There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims,” Christie said after the 11th-hour decision to scrap the vote. “The House majority and their speaker, John Boehner. This is not a Republican or Democratic issue. National disasters happen in red states and blue states and states with Democratic governors and Republican governors. We respond to innocent victims of natural disasters not as Republicans or Democrats, but as Americans. Or at least we did until last night.”

Christie said he had been given personal assurance that the $60 billion aid bill would go before the House on Tuesday. The Senate passed the measure last week. With Congress’ term coming to a close on Thursday, members will have to start from scratch to help the hundreds of thousands affected by the megastorm.

“Last night, the House majority failed the most basic test of leadership and they did so with callous disregard to the people of my state,” Christie said. “Our people were played last night as a pawn. That’s why people hate Washington.”

Christie said he has yet to be given a “substantive, credible reason” for why the bill wasn’t put to a vote. He said he tried to reach Boehner four times Tuesday night to find out what happened, but “he did not take my calls.”

“Sixty-six days and counting [since Sandy],” Christie said. “Shame on you. Shame on Congress.”

Christie’s criticisms echoed those of Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), who said earlier on Wednesday that New Yorkers shouldn’t give a penny to House Republicans after Tuesday’s “knife in the back.”

But National Review’s Daniel Foster and Betsy Woodruff each pushed back against the outrage that has erupted since Tuesday night. Foster wrote:

[T]he Sandy “relief” bill is really a Sandy “recovery” bill. It’s about the size and shape of the second wave of Sandy spending, which can and should be much more deliberate than the the first wave. The first wave of Sandy spending is already happening. Is it happening quickly or efficiently enough? There is no such thing as quickly or efficiently enough for the people of Staten Island or Seaside Heights, but it’s nevertheless safe to assume that if you think private charities and emergency responders aren’t allocating efficiently, you’re probably going to be disappointed by Congress, too. In fact, according to an analysis released by Sens. Coburn and McCain, “64 percent of the $60.4 billion in ‘emergency’ spending in this legislation will not be spent for nearly two years.

And among some of the provisions in the Senate-passed bill:

•$2 million to repair damage to the roofs of museums in Washington, D.C., while many in Hurricane Sandy’s path still have no roof over their own heads.

•$150 million for fisheries as far away from the storm’s path as Alaska.

•$125 million for the Department of Agriculture’s Emergency Watershed Protection program, which helps restore watersheds damaged by wildfires and drought.

•$20 million for a nationwide Water Resources Priorities Study.

•$15 million for NASA facilities, though NASA itself has called its damage from the hurricane ‘minimal.’

•$50 million in subsidies for tree planting on private properties.

This post has been updated.

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Ruprecht
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:34pm
I suppose if they could remove the excess from the bill that it might get passed. But, you can’t tell me that the removal of all of that pork won’t make the big guy even angrier.

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- Deuteronomy22
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:45pm
  New Jersey only gets back 61 cents for every dollar that is sent to DC. Time to stop subsidizing the hillbillies and rednecks in the red states.
  
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- HMNSC
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:47pm
  That’s more pork than even Christie can stomach.
  
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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:51pm
  State welfare from the Fed time to cut the gravy train.
  
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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:55pm
  Didn’t a bunch of hack celebrities have a big benefit concert on 12.12.12? Where is that money? Surely our treasured celebrities can be trusted to handle the money appropriately…. can’t they?
  
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- Stljarhead
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:56pm
  Deuteronomy, your “subsidies” to the red states are primarily to farmers to stabilize prices, and compensatory Federal payments to states for Federal land holdings. Also, it’s not the “hillbillies” who are sucking up the welfare and food stamps, it’s those folks in the inner cities.
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:57pm
  Why doesn’t Christie go straight to the chi-com’s and just cut out the middle man?
  
  BTW, suck it NJ and NY. Yeah, my grandkids should have to bay to rebuild Snookie’s beach house? No thanks. If NY and NJ are so great then I’m sure y’all will figure out a way to work through it without taxing the other 48 (or is it 55?) states to do so.
  
  Good luck you white version of Bookman.
  
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- gothope
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:04pm
  should any relief go to those making more than 400k? Jersey shore residents make plenty of money to pay for their own repairs and everyone of them gets govt. subsidized insurance for their homes. Personally I think it’s funny the lady who Obama hugged hasn’t seen any help. She owns a marina. Ever fill up a boat at a marina.
  
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- Deuteronomy22
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:11pm
  Hey Jarhead have you ever been to rural Kentucky, West Virginia, Mississippi? No matter how you rationalize the .61 cents for every dollar New Jersey pays is tens of billions more than it gets back. As far as farmers, New Jersey has plenty as well. The Garden State is not all business and cities.
  
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- MadinIllinois
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:21pm
  WHERE exactly, is that money to come from- WE ARE BROKE!!?
  
  If the Democrats would simply CUT SPENDING – towards some of their “entitlement programs” – balance the budget and spend only what is taken in, perhaps the money would be available to help these well needed citizens! We can’t keep borrowing from China – 46 cents on every dollar!
  
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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:22pm
  SIMPLETON: Tell us again how successful you are, you know, your businesses, employees, living the high life. You haven’t told us in several days. (Better check back on your prior comments so you keep your story straight.)
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:25pm
  @DEUTOROMY
  
  Keep in mind, you guys keep voting for the liberals that keep raising your taxes so your whining falls on deaf ears.
  
  @SIMPLE_TRUTHS
  
  Your tired, cowardly attacks on Christians is played out homey, get some new material. Check that, I’ll pray you come up with some funnier way to make fun of me so as to not embarrass yourself.
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:30pm
  Will someone please notify Slim that his 15 minutes of fame with conservatives was over like a year ago?
  Nobody cares what you think. Your shtick is old. You are irrelevant and a hypocrite.
  
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- RajCaj
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:42pm
  How about the outrage at the politicians that saw this as an opportunity to get some reelection street cred for “bringing home the bacon”???
  
  THATS why there wasn’t a vote on the spending bill. Don’t pollute the Sandy relief bill with crap that has little to nothing to do with the immediate need of financial relief by victims of Hurricane Sandy.
  
  If Alaskan fisheries need money for something, they should get it on the merit of that specific need. They shouldn’t use, what would otherwise be an automatic “Yes” vote opportunity, like helping out real people in need from Hurricane Sandy to get a cash payout for their pet project. Why is this so hard to understand?
  
  They do this with teacher pay raises, programs aimed at the elderly, and the funding the US Soldiers….congress pimps their vote out for sale by demanding a couple million here & there for pet projects that have NOTHING to do with some bill that has emotional appeal among the US citizenry. When responsible politicians vote it down because it’s filled with unrelated pork, they get drug through the mud by the media for not caring about teachers, the soldiers, old people, or victims of natural disasters. DISGUSTING!
  
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- 13a
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:47pm
  And that, ladies and gentlemen, was Christie’s and Boehner’s reenactment of the famous scene from “Deliverance”.
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:51pm
  Mr. obama Lover, Gov: if your area needed the money so badly, why didn’t you encourage Congress, who wrote the BILL, to eliminate all the PORK CHOPS?
  
  I know, I know, you probably love pork, but we’re getting tired of paying for everything else not necessary to take care of business at hand. Most of us, in our private lives, stop spending on things that aren’t DIRE necessities, so we can cover things that are needed now. So, go cry to your new founded buddy and let us take care of business in a way that’s fair for all.
  
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- satotbs
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:58pm
  I think all states get back less than they send to DC (district of corruption). One reason for this is pork.
  Another reason is the number of federal workers (77 percent of the new jobs created in the last four years were public and they just got raises). Even the poor poor victims of Katrina, that Bush tried to kill, remember them? All the federal and charitable donations appropriated haven’t been doled out yet.
  That amount would have given all those victims hundreds of thousands $ each. Where did it go? This is the biggest problem with our country, throwing money around like confetti, only now even the underpaid NYC Dept. of Sanitation couldn’t clean up the trillions of pieces of this “give everybody more of anything they want shut up and go away social candy”. Boohoo my multimillion dollar house that I pay really really high property taxes on has been ruined by weather. How bout if Dumberg and NJ Doughboy gave you enough tax relief so you could by flood insurance duh. Maybe you could not rebuild and turn over your property to the UN. Maybe the next time you vote dumb-ss you will think about how good you felt about not being exposed to 16 oz. soda pop. Cowboy up citizens or shut up.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 5:19pm
  Deuteronomy22, New Jersey is a progressive bastion. They asked the government to take their money. So, they are responsible. Can’t be progressive then whine about the results.
  
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- EastCoaster
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 5:37pm
  Christie is showing his true colors again. To heck with being fiscally responsible as long as he gets the money so he can act like the big shot savior he pretends to be.
  
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- crackerone
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 5:43pm
  Christie/Christ 2016
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 5:48pm
  I want to file a greivence with my union steward. N.J. gets $.61 back on each dollar! Obama was to spread the wealth fairley. Here in Oklahoma we only get $.44 and Missouri gets $.51- that is unfair. I’m really ticked about $ 50 million to plant trees on private property. My sons ranch is being paid by the Dept. of Agriculter to bull dose trees. Under another government (C.R.P.) we call it crap pays farmers not to grow crops. A few years ago one of the county commissiors was run out of town because he had the roadgrader work on a guys entrence(private property).
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 6:11pm
  @Deuteronomy22,
  
  Your 61cents metric comes from faulty data. It was from 2007 I believe (?). It it total government EXPENDITURES by state, not just transfers and such. So, for example, if Texas (who was at 94 cents by the way) has numerous air bases and army bases as well as companies producing military hardware as well as selling oil/gas to say the Strategic Oil Reserve then the payments to Texas are going to be huge…which they were. This makes it even more remarkable given the amount of taxes we pay. We are pretty wealthy here I suppose.
  
  Now, a different story exists for say Mississippi. They are poor as heck and are in a negative status (2.02 if you and I are on the same study). They don’t have the wealth to pay in and don’t make stuff the government wants and don’t really have much military.
  
  So there is New Jersey, don’t know the story in terms of what the government spends there. I know Ft. Dix is closed since I was one of the last basic training cycles there. But the point is that the 61 cents doesn’t tell you what you are implying that it does. It isn’t simply welfare and pork and whatnot. But, hey nice try. Lying with statistics is always more effective than lying outright I think.
  
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- RedHarley
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 6:58pm
  Hey DEUTERONOMY22,
  Whadda ya complainin’ about ?? New Joisey has mo money than, lets say…rural Kentucky.
  It’s is called “distribute the wealth”. It gives the peeps in rural Kentucky the “chance to succeed”. The morons in Joisey can afford it. Ask yo prez about how that works….
  
  Now as far as Chris Christie is concerned….I am NO fan of Boehner’s, but Christie needs to be told what Boehner said the Harry Reid…….times 3. That should take care of the weight difference.
  Go cry to the object of your man crush, Chris.
  
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- 1wolf
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:17pm
  Only .61 on every dollar, Sounds like they need to pay their fair share!
  
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- lovenfl3
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:06pm
  How many of these idiots are there that don’t understand how we got to the point where we have a $16.4 trillion dollar debt. Don’t get your undies in a bundle Chrissie. We have to stop just passing bills that have $30 billion in unrelated spending because they are tied to a good cause. So put down your donut, and tell the American people how much you REALLY need. Shame on you Christie.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn7HlDqK3VM
  
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- DADDYWOREAWHITEHAT
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:16pm
  After his love fest with the campaignerintheif helped get that bozo re-selected I wouldn’t give his state a dime. As I recall after the eye of hurricane IKE passed over my house I couldn’t even get a bottle of water as assistance. You couldn’t buy a postage stamp in my town because the post office didn’t have power or repairs for almost 3 months. I didn’t have power at my house for 6 weeks. I got out in my own front yard & street & cleaned up the mess & bundled the branches in 5′ lengths so when the trucks could get access to my neighborhood they would be ale to pickup & move on. & yes we mounted horses & went looter hunting, hey it can’t all be work & no play. Christie wants to sell us all out for another 4 years of Supreme Court radical appointments & executive orders & expects to have some pork laden spending bill just rubber stamped by the same people he sold down the river. Think again fat boy. Go clean up your own yard & fix your own house like I had to.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 11:22pm
  Sorry: numbnuts Christie wants the pork in the bill… err, wait… Christie is pork… ummm, hold on, I’ll get this figured out yet…
  
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- Hardballer
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 8:29am
  Dueterhead: You got it wrong. The money the Fed takes from NJ residents is going to free cell phones, Pigford reparations, Food stamps, free mortages, and other free stuff which helped Oblamo win….not in the south but in the ******* districts of the midwest and east coast…well Florida I will concede.
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 8:35am
  Fatboy is showing his true color instead of getting angry at the plague of Congressman slipping bilion upon billions in pork into the sandy relief bill. He’s attacking the man that wants to remove the pork and vote strictly on a relief apckage with no extra expenses to an already over taxed citizen.
  Christy is no Conservative he ‘s just another big government liberal with a R instaed of a D for his party affiliation.
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 8:39am
  22,
  Virginia gets 1.27 cent for every dollar it sends in taxes but if you take out the military we would only get 47 ccent for every dollar sent…..I would gladly see the bases close and the nazi-era (just following order) soldiers removed from my state. And only send the 10% of what they’re stealing.
  
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- KingCoal59
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 10:39am
  But what is the 50 billion for? That seems pretty steep, would we be paying to rebuild towns and communities which are situated in a flood plane or which are always at risk in a hurricane, then these people should have had insurance. There is a lot of room for BS in a check for 50 billion, a windfall? A late Christmas package, in days gone by the country had more money to give a state but today times are different. You live on the coast you have to know you are going to have a storm every now and then. I mean really it’s such a small state how much money do they need, the home owners should have had insurance and the businesses as well, but 50 billion with a B no. I think they look at the last state who had some big disaster and say YEAH we need whatever they got and roll the dice to see if we will go for it.
  
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RinkyDink34
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:34pm
Ha Ha Ha, no free money for you fat-so

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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:49pm
  That guy is a progressive IDIOT! Time to remove obama NOW how ever it has to be done he must be charged with treason!http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/02/emperor-obama-issues-executive-order-granting-de-facto-amnesty-to-1-million-illegal-immigrants/
  
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- Oldphoto678
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:25pm
  well then tuff guy, why don’t you saddle up and go arrest President Obama?
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:46pm
  Tuff guy? where did you get that from. You been peeking in my windows again?
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:52pm
  Trust me if i could do it alone i would have years ago.. Tuff guy yeah i am as a matter of fact. I worked in construction most of my life and i am no push over and i don’t run away and call a cop… How about you tuff guy?
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 5:04pm
  Oldfartdog69 is an internet toughie. He is speed dialing an acronym right now, “this guy on the webbie with the civil war moniker is threatinin me and Bathouse Barry and it hurts my feelings and such.”
  
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BreeZee
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:34pm
Screw cristie! that bill was full of crap that has nothing to do with sandy. sandy was two months ago, where was christie the past two months? silent why? haven’t heard crap from him or his bestest new buddies barry and brucie. We have our money wasted on fema, where have they been? barry and biden? what about the big whoopie doo 12/12/12 concert? what about all the donations from the ppl to Mercury one and the Red Cross? This sandy bill is a PAY OFF and show boat vote getter from the dem reps from those areas. christie your a pos.

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- dublinthewagons
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:56pm
  Dont forget the special air force 1 flight from Hawaii and back last night for Obama’s photo opp.
  That cost $7,000,000 seven million dollars and was not called for at all. Nor the 11 trillion in raises Obama wanted for federal workers.
  How about getting mad at your new buddies fat so. When machelle gets through with your diet you be as small as pewe herman. The house leadership does need to be removed though
  
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Uechi
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:34pm
Too bad lefty. Why don’t you switch parties, you’ve already kissed Barry’s **** you might as well go all the way. Why would you want to appropriate money for victims of Sandy when millions will be spent on pork? Make sure all the money goes to the victims. Hey Christie, your screwed up state has the highest taxes in the country and you are still crying for us to bail your lard ass out?

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- qualityrkc
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:03pm
  Most of the money New Jersey pays in federal taxes goes to other states. I am pretty sure we have the worst return on our taxes. You would think a state that has been supporting so many other less prosperous states for so long would get a little help when we finally ask for some. Geuss not.
  
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- Freedomlover_US
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:14pm
  Posts like this are why when b!tchy red states cry about wanting to secede because the majority of the country doesn’t want their tea party losers, I say let them go. No one up in the Northeast cares – we barely notice you’re even here! Without our money the South would be a banana republic.
  
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- RajCaj
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:56pm
  You’re missing the point…..it’s not about a return on the money Jersey sends to the fed government. It’s about stopping an appropriation policy that has this country in the tight spot it’s in.
  
  Politicians use sensitive issues (pay raises for teachers, funding for programs aimed at the elderly, funding for soldiers, victims of natural disasters) to load up with unrelated spending for their own pet projects so that they can show their constituents “Look what I’ve done for you lately” in effort to get reelected.
  
  Don’t like the fact that Guantanamo Bay Prison is getting funding from Sandy Relief? You must hate NY victims of Hurricane Sandy!
  
  Don’t like a DC museum is getting funding to replace a roof that was damaged BEFORE Hurricane Sandy? You must hate people still without power in NJ!
  
  Don’t like the fact some politician pimped their vote out in a Teacher Pay Raise Bill in exchange for 10 mill for some urban development project in California? You must hate Teachers!
  
  See how that works? It’s disgusting!
  
  If money is needed for Alaskan fisheries, it should be able to get the money on it’s own merits. If we need money allocated to a Water Resource Priorities Study, those people supporting that program should be able to justify the spend on it’s own merits. Don’t hold those victims in NY & NJ hostage so some sleeze bag politician can pad their own reelection campaign.
  
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Frodo RinosBane
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:33pm
Christie just got schooled – politicians lie.

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FANGS
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:33pm
No More greed. Turn off the taxpayer spicket. 61 billion? there’s no way that tropical storm sandy costed 5 times as much as any other previous disaster. No Christie you won’t be getting Your pension bailout money. NO NO No..

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Rock_Moninoff
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:33pm
Maybe if Gov “Fat Bastard” hadn’t kissed Obie’s ass we might have had a different presidential outcome and Speaker ***** wouldn’t have had to fool around with a House vote, President Romney would have already allocated the funds for Sandy residents.
So have another Twinkie ya Twink RINO!

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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:35pm
  Bingo. When you hop in bed with Bathhouse Barry you get screwed.
  
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- Government_Goodies
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:44pm
  There will be billions of dollars headed Christie’s way whether it was on this bill or the next. That’s not in dispute. However, it’s odd that Christie felt he needed to further poop on the Republicans with this tantrum.
  
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- yiska8
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:55pm
  And Romney offered busloads during the election,which were probably turned away filled with immediate goods. All Obama offered was a cold hug and a photo op with promises…. promises.
  But the Jersey dough boy decided to lick King Barry’s skinny **** instead. No money. No aid. No dignity. No self- respect. Obama basically just violated Christie publically. Truth is damn bitter, hey Christie???
  
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- savagenatn
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:23pm
  yep crispy creme RINO kissed so much ass now he has to deal with the consequences. How does it feel now fat bastard??
  
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kaydeebeau
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:32pm
Sorry, there Christie – we didn’t take you to raise…. We are broke!! Get over it – WE have no money to bail you out – sorry – had the fed govt not confiscated (and continue to confiscate) my money for stupid stuff (robot squirels and snake strikes – and don’t ask for a citation – this is infamous – look it up for yourself – idiots) I might have some money to help you but then again – your idiot constiuents voted for Obama – ask him for the money – I am tapped out

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jungle J
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:32pm
chrsity is another spector…he has a job that he can lay around and have everyone do his bidding…he couldn’t dig a ditch if his families life depended on it…another government leech.

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- Fubared
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 5:06pm
  Imagine the horror at the local Kryspy Kreme. Fat cops going into DT’s, you go ahead govnor.
  
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OBUMAURMAMA
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:32pm
He’s becoming so much like the RINOs and Democrats that he can’t recognize Pork when it looks back at him as he stands in front of the mirror.

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IndyGuy
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:31pm
Get over it Blubber Boy…You Progressives are the reason after stuffing the Bill with freebies for your supporters…Where was the help for Nashville when it got wiped out after the floods a few years ago??? That’s what I thought….Nowhere…

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- yiska8
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:59pm
  And when we Texans burned throughout the Spring and Summer of 2011.
  Obama just kicked back and probably laughed at the footage.
  No help. It came later that winter and most had rebuilt or cleared out the land by then.
  Just one of many reasons why so many loathe him down here.
  Welcome to Obama’s America, Governor Christie. It’s a real *itch ain’t it?
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:16pm
  Yeah…I sensed he was enjoying watching Texas burn too…It’s just the kinda guy he is…
  
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ZAP
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:31pm
Build next to the ocean? Don’t forget to buy flood insurance….

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tom comella
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:30pm
Hey Christie! And YOU were played for a pawn! The American people have been played for pawns since the election of Clinton! And now, it’s too late to change course. We have reached critical mass. The 47% is by now over 50%. Bye Bye.

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- Government_Goodies
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:45pm
  “The 47% is by now over 50%. Bye Bye.”
  
  /agree
  
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yiska8
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:30pm
Barry forgot about you already? Even after the photos of the two of you, the hugs, the walks down the Jersey shore??? Really? It’s hard to believe this President forgot about Hurricane Sandy victims!!! Man,I can smell the stench of Christie’s Obama *ss kissing regretfulness all the way from Jersey. What a surprise, Christie, you all get NOTHING in the bill????
It’s like Obama just doesn’t care about the people that voted for him in NJ and NYC???
Oh the humanity!!!

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Stljarhead
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:30pm
Hey Chris, the people of your state and New York State have for decades been electing representatives and Presidents who have been utterly sucking the US Treasury dry. Guess what? Because of the choices of your constituents and those across the Eastern and Western seaboards, WE. ARE. BROKE.
Find your own money.

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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:00pm
  Time to trim the waste and cut off the dead weight.
  
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Cavallo
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:29pm
Wahhhh.. maybe your buddy bobo the wonder marxist can crack his multibillion dollar war chest for you, you sycophant.

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toiletclogga
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:28pm
This bill should have no earmarks. It should be able to stand on it’s own. Christie’s aggravation should be directed at those who have interjected their greed into this bill. I don’t like Boehner, but this smells of a Democrat set up in the worst way, and Christie and others are falling for it!

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- SHASTADIANE1
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:44pm
  Most definately.
  
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NigelTufnel
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:28pm
Many of the Tornado victims in Alabama have yet to see any money. Get used to it Chris! Oh. And in case you haven’t noticed Gov. Christie, you are this election cycle’s Sarah Palin. Barbara Walters just got away with calling you fat as well as implying that your weight is now an issue with your job in public office. Sadly Governor, you let her get away with it. Come on man get a hold of yourself. The obvious comeback was Obama’s pack a day Newport habit. Palin ran interferenece for 4 years and managed to put 7 million in her pocket. Christie has yet to figure out that he is the bate. Life is like a box of chocolates Chris, it doesn’t last long for the fat people!

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- gyro
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:33pm
  wow
  
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- yiska8
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:48pm
  A blue state being treated like a Red State after a disaster??
  And they refuse to admit they screwed up. You know its bad when Jersey is being treated like Alabama or Texas after a natural disaster. How has Christie not dropped a few pounds from all that rebuilding in Jersey, his historic precious shoreline?? Where are the UNIONS???Better hop to it big boy, start cleaning it up on your own with capable “UNION” workers.
  If you wait for Barry to help, you may as well let the sand and ocean reclaim it, cause the help is never going to come. What a Jersey dumb *ss!!
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:28pm
I guess it’s time for Christie to French-kiss (and more) his boyfriend obama, AGAIN.

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Need to be FREE
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:28pm
How about this, remove the pork and then it will get passed. Money sent all over the country via Sandy victims.

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BODYBAG
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:26pm
“There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims,” Christie said after the 11th-hour decision to scrap the vote. “The House majority and their speaker, John Boehner.”

Really?
Seems like I remember when emergency relief workers showed up from all over the country
they were greeted by mobs of NY & NJ UNION WORKERS who threatened and berated them
before turning them away.

You mean those Union maggots arent getting it done?

Christie why dont you just go call your Chocolate Candy Man in the White House. All he has to do is sign an executive order.

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- Glennda
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:39pm
  I thought Obama was only half chocolate. Neve far below the surfacee with you, is it Buddy Bag?
- Dom321
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:42pm
  Serves him right, doesn’t it?
  
  Too bad for the people that are still suffering… elect a true conservative next time.
  
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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:12pm
  OBOZO: 50% Chocolate but 100% moron, and that’s what counts.
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:19pm
  FIAH BONE . . . Beats being a conservative, which is 100% moron.
- yiska8
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:37pm
  In Barry’s anti-colonialist mentality, he’s ALL Chocolate. He hates the vanilla in himself. He hates all things WHITE.
  
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- 1wolf
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:26pm
  @Glen Duh
  
  Why you still here, thought you would be busy filling out that tax return, making sure you pay your fair share.
  
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sligresda
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:26pm
Boy, how come there was none of this drama when the massive tornado hit joplin mo? those folks picked up and carried on. these people up north, and down south, cant seem to get their act together without massive government intervention.

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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:35pm
  Uh…don’t lump us southerners in with the leftist nor’easterners – those of us in the south (except for the leftist strongholds) don’t want or need the fed and would be able to better care for eachother is the fed would stop taking our money
  
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CatB
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:25pm
Hey Chrissy … do you care that the Dems loaded it up with pork? .. no didn’t think so .. why don’t you call your BUDDY OBAMA and get some of his STASH!

Remember Benghazi!

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drandall
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:25pm
How unusual when hogs fight over slop…..in the public trough!

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- right field
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:13pm
  Every word spoken by any politician is just for show. Christie is just getting in his “sound bite” so he can tell the useful idiots how he fought for them to get “help.” I actually think those who
  got “blown away” probably deserve some help – but as usual, the elite elected want to make sure they help out their buddies who give them campaign donations so they can continue to “show off” how much they care about spending other people’s hard earned money.
  What a load on both sides of the isle – The Dems are the biggest criminals while the Repubs are most likely to get fried by the lying MSM.
  How’s that ‘Hope and Change’ working out for all the taxpaying suckers now?
  We need a new tax on people who do not pay any tax by cutting their welfare and entitlements by at least 10% – then they will feel much better about paying their ‘fair share’ like the rest of us!
  
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gyro
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:24pm
shame on Gov. Chris Christie for puting his agenda before that of the country
that being said how long before he phones obama ?

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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:36pm
  Christies’ job is to help N.J. If he has to call Obama, so be it. Do the job first, worry about perception later.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:36pm
  You really think Obama is going to interupt his Hawaii vacation to take Chrissy call … the election is OVER .. Obama won .. Chrissy you were USED!
  
  Remember Benghazi!
  
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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:38pm
  He is no longer useful to Barry. No need for a phone call.
  
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- gyro
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:45pm
  Exrepublisheep = valid point
  But there is a thing though if your a govenor your job is to run your state not chace money
  
  but your point is very good
  
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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:48pm
  Sorry EX, but the Kenyan sock monkey is not going to interupt his continued Hawaiian vacation to worry about Christie’s problems. Christie’s usefuleness expired on Nov. 7, 2012.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:25pm
  @FISH_BONE
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:48pm
  Christie’s usefuleness expired on Nov. 7, 2012.
  —————————-
  Bullseye. He got played by the Playa. The Candyman Chocolate King.
  
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- qualityrkc
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 6:37pm
  Gyro by his agenda do you mean the people of his state? And by the country do you mean the repub party. And you guys wonder why you can’t win a national election…christie put his job over partisan politics. We respect that in nj.
  
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