re: #292 HappyWarrior

Even with Christie winning re-election. It wasn’t approval of his policies. It was an affirmation of him as a leader. That’s not going to work nationally. And Christie can act like the problem is Washington blah blah and point fingers at both POTUS and Congress but the fact of the matter is most of the discord in Washington is the fault of the Republicans who sought to ruin Obama from the get go. Christie didn’t have that in Jersey.

Christie railed against Boehner and the GOP for blocking Sandy aid for 91 days after the storm came ashore, refusing to act on even restoring funding to cover the NFIP, which affects communities across the entire country, not just in NJ.

The shutdown was on the GOP. The delay in Sandy aid was all on the GOP. No one else to blame there.

In NJ, the Democrats here don’t see eye to eye with the Gov, but they’ve not stopped all government operations and blocked everything proposed or legislated. The one area where the Democrats aren’t yielding are on judicial nominees to the State Supreme Court, and they’ll end up working out some kind of a deal there too.

Executives have the right to nominate who they see fit, and as long as they’re qualified, they should be confirmed. It’s a perk of winning. It’s why elections matter.