I was less sure about him than McDonnell in VA and Brown in Mass…but he is living up to the bill. Good for him.

-State constitution requires a balanced budget
-It’s far from balanced now, in the red by two billion smackeroos
-Spending what you don’t have is a lousy idea
-Raising taxes in an already over-taxed state is a lousy idea
-Getting real is a good idea

Well hell’s bells! There are the reasons the leftists are all outraged. The fat guy is talking common sense! How dare he?

I knew this guy would be the real deal.

Is that what he said? “I won”.

It is about d*mn time.

which I believe means that all those gazillions of state workers won’t be getting pay hikes. When Christie Whitman froze state worker pay, I thought my mother-in-law was going to have to call the ambulance because she was almost hyperventilating.

What will happen is Tubby will do some real good things for NJ, he will get the budget in a much better position than Corzine had it, he’ll clean up some real dead wood, and, then the igiots will scream for another Democrat Governor. That is if they don’t try to remove Tubby from office first.

for NY and CA, the other two states with the highest taxes and the biggest deficits.

with so many people moving out of state, it may soon live up to it’s name. My husband grew up in NJ, and, he always said someone flew a prop plane across the state and dropped house seeds. In many areas your lucky if you have the room to grow 2 dandelions.

What a classic line!

And you could tell where all the Dems were sitting…they were the ones *not* clapping.

Great news! Looks like he has done more good in “Twenty three days” than the entire Democrat Party has done in a year

That is like operation Hope. FAT MAN is delivering.

Delivered.

I grew up in NJ to and I can’t tell you how great
it is to see Christie taking a stand.

I will be pumped all day:)

The big guy is soo good.

Then there’s the big O. Who yesterday signed the PAY-GO plan for the federal gov’t. He mentioned it in a radio address today, but NEGLECTED TO TELL EVERYBODY that the paygo plan is connected to the bill which raises the debt ceiling by about $2 Trillion.

“One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits — a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment. Is that fair? ”

Wish I had investment returns like that. I’m getting my gubment degree, oh yeah, I’ve been qualified for gubment work since birth.

I’m proud of the hope and change that politicians like Christie will bring.

As for me- I refuse to change.

Real plans to get these states back on the path to fiscal wellbeing.

Unlike the moronic moves of lefty idiots like New York’s unelected “governor.”

It makes me quiver with delight.

Awesome…we spend what we have and can afford…no games, no ‘shifts’ and NO taxes!

Thank you NJ for showing the way.

Deval Patrick is a vulnerable as it gets and we have no one. Elections do have consequences. In the bluest of blue states it is difficult to even find a quality conservative, no less one who is qualified and clean enough to get elected Governor. Four more years of Obama’s mini me is looking more and more likely everyday.

Christie is showing himself to be the bigger man. As for the democrats supporting these tough but necessary moves, Fat Chance.

1. Chris Christie plays hardball with the dems and corrupt RINO’s in Trenton. This means absolute transparency across the board on their votes in committee, in the legislature, exposing their lobbyist ties (especially to NJ public unions) and the like. Let the people of NJ, especially these legislator’s constituents, know who’s voting what way and possibly why.

I love that he’s implicitly downplaying “bi-partisanship’ and refusing to bow down at that altar. If the Dems want to go to war, I hope he’ll go to war right back. With the mood of the country, and even the true-blue state of NJ the way it is, I think he’d win that war.

2. The NJ GOP don’t screw this up. If they don’t realize that the days of backroom deals, horsetrading, and being Dem-lite are not over, then their days are truly numbered. The voters of NJ took a chance on Christie; he looks like he wants to deliver. If he gets stabbed in the back by his own party, the GOP is finished for good in the Garden State.

3. The tea party activists in NJ keep the heat up on not just Christie, but on every single state legislator, local officers (mayors, council members, etc.), and public unions. It’s well past time.

But right now, for the first time in a long time, I’m proud to be a citizen of New Jersey. First the Jets, and now this.

Next year, Jets in the Super Bowl, and Christie (hopefully) dismantling the bureaucratic machine in Trenton.

-TS

Moe

I don’t know about NJ, but out here in CA the Governator has the line item veto. Our Democratic overlords of the Assembly can pass a budget, and whoever is the Governor can exercise his/her veto power to cut line by line on spending. Unfortunately, the current Governator is not interested in doing so.

So Christie cuts the NJ budget, how do the Democrats undo the cuts, or try to?

One last, how will Snookie and the Jersey Shore crew react?

and doing what he promised to do. It’s going to be even tougher for him since the Dems have a majority. Using executive powers as much as he can will be necessary since the Dems still don’t have the message.

Good for him!

Moe, can you link the entire speech? You cut it off just before he was going to pull the trigger! The BANG, I would like to see the BANG!

NJ might become livable again? I suggest all the leftists move to the next highest taxed area quickly. There’s your utopia dimwits.

I left NJ right when Corzine came in. If he can do it, this will be awesome.

Anyone anywhere with a scant knowledge of the situation in New Jersey knows what he’s saying is true, it’s just refreshing to see he’s got the courage to say it.

Must have been like what the NJ legislature is feeling now.

Not a bad moniker for the Guv.

New Jersey, you have a chance to steer away before the iceberg.

I like Christie from what I saw during the campaign, but I’m really impressed now with what I’m seeing.

Let’s see if anyone with a brain cell is actually left in the state and will listen to the big guy before it’s too late.

My guess is no– anyone who isn’t in a union already fled their taxes to neighboring states the last 5-10 years.

Larry Kudlow said as discussed WSJ and other news about Christie this AM on a radio show, said he’s doing a tremendous job on this. A guy called in from Gloucester County defending a state democrat who blasted Christie. He tried to bully Kudlow, but Kudlow said well your guy’s a democrat and he voted for all these tax increases didn’t he? Silence from the guy. I never thought a republican could win in the state. It’s still an absolute miracle.

Hopefully, this Christie (Chris) will be light years better than the last Christie (Whitman).

THE key to Saving the Union… is killing the government unions.

Go Governor Christie!

There is a sense of delight in my life since watching Christie’s speech this week. Maybe being from NJ will stop being an embarrassment.

As a Jersey Native I am in awe.

Elections have consequences.

I’ll find the rest on you tube. I hope it’s as good as Hannen’s EU Speech

Lived in NJ and worked in the City for 40 years, paying NY and NJ income taxes and high property taxes always hoping for a fiscal conservative to come along and govern. The best we got were basically RINOs.

There are many of us NJ transplants here in SC no longer able to afford the high costs in NJ, not having one of those lucrative government pensions. I am happy, for my children’s sake (still in NJ), that there is at least a chance for some significant common sense in the Governor/s mansion. Go Christie!