Chris Christie gets a boost - from Democrats

[Marcus Aurelius]

http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/04/chris_christie_gets_a_boost_--_from_democrats_moran.html

On the chopping block: The new kid in the leadership circle, Democratic Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto, a former bodybuilder and plumber from Hudson County who was about to learn what happens when you give Christie a political opening.

"He wants to give something to a group of people — out of your pockets and into somebody else’s," the governor said. "That’s it. There’s no other explanation for it.

"But you hired me, I believe, not for my charm and good looks. You hired me because you want me to stop this kind of nonsense. So we need to keep talking about this."

And so he did. The governor was referring to a 2 percent cap on police and firefighter salary awards that just expired. It was enacted in 2011 and has worked like a charm to help contain property taxes. But it expired recently because Prieto would not allow a vote on its renewal.

Prieto had allowed the governor to change the subject and seize the moral high ground. Once again, Christie was the strutting champion of the middle-class taxpayer, the role that put him on the political map.
For Democrats, this is not just bad policy, it is political malpractice. The governor has been trapped in the Bridgegate pit for months, and now Prieto is lowering him a ladder to climb out.

Dems in NJ are not the brightest, it appears.

By the way...

STILL JACK SHIT ON CHRISTIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!