Real leadership the GOP can believe in

I really hope Chris Christie puts his hat in the 2012 Presidential election. I've said this a few times and I'll keep on repeating myself. This is the kind of leadership we need.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said voters next week should reject school budgets in districts where teachers refuse to accept pay freezes.

Employees in 11 of 588 school districts have so far agreed to accept no increase in wages, Christie, 47, told reporters today in Princeton. The governor has urged the concessions as one way to offset $820 million in education cuts in his proposed state spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1.

“I just don’t see how citizens should want to support a budget where teachers do not want to be a part of the shared sacrifice,” Christie said. “That’s my view on it.”

New Jersey is one of the bluest states in the Union. Not only did he urge the districts to reject the budgets they listened in an overwhelmingly margin.

New Jersey voters took a stand on school spending and property taxes Tuesday, rejecting 260 of 479 school budgets across 19 counties, according to unofficial results in statewide school elections.

In the proposed state budget he unveiled last month, Gov. Chris Christie slashed $820 million in aid to school districts and urged voters to defeat budgets if teachers in their schools did not agree to one-year wage freezes. The salvo ignited a heated debate with the state’s largest teachers union.

New Jersey, like many states and the nation, are in a financial mess. Obama is spending money like it is going out of style. Our national debt is out of control and the budgets just keep on rising. This country needs a leader like Christie who isn't afraid to cut the budget and control spending. This is a very rare trait that no liberal has and only a very few Republicans have.

All I have to say is Hell No

As much as I like Sarah Palin there is no way in Hell I'd support her if she ran with Mitt Romney. We've tried to run the big government Republicans before. They aren't winning candidates, especially Mitt Romney. I wouldn't mind seeing Palin running for President or Vice President in 2012 but if she thinks a winning ticket is with Mitt Romney I just lost a lot of respect for her.

Conservative superstar Sarah Palin opened the door yesterday to joining forces with Mitt Romney for a 2012 White House run - a hot ticket that has some Republicans licking their chops at the prospect of unseating President Obama.

“Sounds pretty good,” Palin declared at yesterday’s Tea Party Express rally on the Common when asked about pairing up with the former Bay State governor - giving the idea a big thumbs-up as she left the stage after her headline speech.

Last night, as Palin stopped for cannoli at Mike’s Pastry in the North End, she said she was “serious” about the idea.

Hopefully she was just being nice since she was in Boston for a Tea Party Rally.

This country is going to vote for the Constitution this November and again in 2012. Even a recent Rasmussen poll has Ron Paul in a statistical dead heat with Obama right now.

Pit maverick Republican Congressman Ron Paul against President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 election match-up, and the race is – virtually dead even.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of likely voters finds Obama with 42% support and Paul with 41% of the vote. Eleven percent (11%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided.

I'm not a huge supporter of Ron Paul for President. I think he makes a fantastic Senator and I hope his son Rand Paul gets elected to the Senate too. But this just goes to show you how the public has swayed. We don't have any more big government politicians to run our country.

My new front runner for 2012

Forget Sarah Palin. Forget Tim Pawlenty. Forget Mitt Romney.

Welcome Gov Chris Christie from New Jersey.

This is the kind of leadership we need in DC. Someone who isn't afraid of fiscal responsibly.

Gov. Chris Christie is taking $65 million, the entire allocation, from the state's global warming fund, and $5.9 million, from the toxic waste site cleanup program, to help close the over $10 billion deficit in his $29.3 billion 2010-11 state budget, the state environmental protection commissioner said Monday.

In discussing the Department of Environmental Protection's proposed $380.6 million budget before the Assembly Budget Committee in Trenton, Commissioner Bob Martin said he hopes the loss of the $65 million, funding for the state's role in a regional effort to combat global warming, will only be for one year. He told the committee that DEP staff will continue to attempt to work against global warming and so-called greenhouses gasses despite the lack of money.

Martin said while he does not anticipate that DEP employees will be among the 1,300 state workers Christie plans to layoff in January, the commissioner does intend to move to save $1.4 million at that time by reducing the workweek of employees, at least those in management, the state parks, and Highlands Permitting from 40 hours to 35 hours.

He knows man made global warming is a bunch of crap anyways. So why fund something that just hassles business for nothing?