Michael Matthew Bloomer, November 8, 2013
I don’t believe Chris Christie’s an “old-fashioned Republican,” do you? Many do. I do believe he’s the darling of the moment of the so-called Republican OG (OG as in Old Guard or Old Gangsters, your choice). The Old Guard, though, hearkens back to an era when Republicans, though more genteel and more willing to compromise, were still trying to hamstring social programs, dismantle Medicare and Medicaid, and boost the already enriched.
By today’s disgraceful standards wherein deranged Tea Partiers roam the land seeking defenseless victims, and, by the way, control the House of Representatives, for Pete’s sake, yes, Chris Christie is, in a narrow sense, more palatable. Yet, look at his record: here’s an article about two major newspaper endorsements entitled, Chris Christie Wins Endorsement of Newspaper That Appears to Hate Him. Ouch!
Here’s how I think we ought to view him until proved otherwise . . .
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Michael Matthew Bloomer spent the 24 years between Reagan and Bush II on Capitol Hill as a legislative research and policy wanker at the nonpartisan
Congressional Research Service, an agency in the belly of Congress's across-the-street library, the aptly named
Library of Congress. Now retired, I'm freed from CRS nonpartisanship, and "came out" as an aggressive progressive and am a contributing writer for
Nation of Change.