No Laughing Matter

I am 100% in agreement with you on this.

"Hollywood is a place whre thy'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and 50 cents for your soul." - Marilyn Monroe (She never knew how profound she was.)

If you read the book 'The Soprano State', which most here on this site probably has, you'll find that NJ matters are serious to the residents of this state, but funny to those in other states. I guess it's the old, 'It's funnier if it happens to them' rule.

Recalling Corzine is paramont, preventing Codey, Menendez, Andrews, Holt and Lesniak from getting re-elected is a prime concern.

Once the Court Jesters stop running the kingdom, the jokes will stop. When fools are in charge, foolish antics are the result.

Reading between the lines in her statement, Christie Whitman is basically saying that NJ has always been, and is now, a big joke:except for of course a brief time in the mid 1990's when she was running things.....What a freaking megalomaniac!  (Not to mention that the country was too busy in the nineties laughing at OJ and Monica to laugh at Jersey)  So, on one hand MS. Clean Air is giving us the backhanded compliment that our state is a joke (except for of course her time at the head) and aggrandizing herself.  Thats a tough task in only 500 words.  I must commend her for that, at least

--Saint Joe--

by firing a pistol and misdirecting the audience's attention while the beast was led offstage.

whitman thinks that by misdirecting our attention with the rehash of an old, unsubstantiated (as of yet) sex scandal, we'll all forget her deplorable actions at EPA on behalf of her GOP masters.

yes, mcgreevey f'ed around, but to my knowledge, nobody died from it.

ironic that it was an elephant, though.

First I need to say that I am originally a registered Republican who recently crossed the line to vote for Obama in our primary. The fact that Hillary won so soundly here is just one clue as to why our state is in such sad shape. Basically it looks to me like 50% or more of the populace is satisfied to just pull the lever for whoever the Democratic bosses tell them to vote for. The basic problem here is not that we, who do care about the sad state of affairs in NJ, don't take politics seriously, the problem is that the Republican party does not attract any serious candidates who can motivate us to vote so we are left with the Democratic hack on one hand and the Republican sacrificial lamb on the other. As long as we have a defacto monopoly ruling our state, we will continue to have a corrupt broken system. There are a lot of people who will simply find it easier to move out of state rather than wait for eternity till there is a viable alternative to the current ruling class. One final thought, it occurs to me there are some nice parallels between CTW and GWB. Both had an opportunity early in their administartion to build a real sustainable majority and both instead squandered that opportunity by ruling with arrogance and contempt, tarnishing the Republican brand with out of control spending, and infecting the government with numerous incompetant cronies.

"no laughing matter". It's actually kind of sad that CTW thinks she has standing to lecture today's New Jersey politicians, since a good part of the current fiscal crisis can be traced directly back to her irresponsible tax policies.

Between Christie and the Torch, this site is really giving us valuable input from two completely discredited pols.

What's wrong, McGreevey's too busy to participate? Hey, maybe if you act now, you could sign up Bush and Cheney for next year.