assholeofday:Chris Christie, Asshole of the Day for November 18, 2014by TheDailyEdge (Follow @TheDai
assholeofday:Chris Christie, Asshole of the Day for November 18, 2014by TheDailyEdge (Follow @TheDailyEdge)Chris Christie has made a name for himself by being an asshole to anyone in New Jersey who didn’t vote for him, refuses to endorse him, or won’t run their town in a way that suits his big-business campaign donors. But now that he’s got his eye on the Presidency in 2016, he’s taking it a new level—and being an asshole to the whole state of New Jersey.On a recent trip to Iowa, Christie suckled up to the state’s pig farmers by promising to veto an animal cruelty bill that passed overwhelmingly in both houses of the New Jersey legislature. Supporters of the bill to ban gestational crates for pigs had gone to the trouble to gather 125,000 signatures from Americans of “every political background who believe in the humane treatment of animals.”But voters in New Jersey—and the suffering of animals—are no longer of much concern to the ambitious Christie who knows he’ll be unable to run on his disastrous economic record in New Jersey, which has suffered a record EIGHT credit downgrades during his corrupt and divisive tenure. So Christie is in full-out pander mode, courting red state voters in a party dominated by reckless extremists and whose “base” thinks it needs to move not to the center but, unbelievably, even further to the right.Some might argue that Christie only let his guard down for a moment, at an event where the smell of pig manure distracted him from the stench of corruption that hangs so heavily around him. But for turning his back on voters in his own state fully two years before the Presidential election, and for endorsing needless animal cruelty, Chris Christie is, for the 8th time, Asshole of The Day.Full story: Daily Kos. -- source link