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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Metacomet who wrote (206945)	11/4/2012 11:20:36 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542060

My read of Christie right now, and I may change it at any moment because he's a moving target, is that he's a mix of two large Republican tendencies. The first is the classic "good government" Republican approach. It's not a small government mentality so much as it is a more efficient government mentality. It doesn't see government at least primarily as a focus of interests and distributions but a focus of management and potential corruption. Also, in this same vein, Christie got his bones as a prosecutor and did the job rather well. The second tendency is the big business lean. Opposition to unions, both public and private, is a rigid line for these folk. H's public formula for repairing the economy is to cut taxes on business as a way to increase employment. A mistake, of course. He is, as we all well know, also, a yeller and a screamer. But very, very good at it. And that part of him appealed to the tea party types. And lead to him leaning in that direction a bit. I think he's decided that's a nonstarter and has decided to give up on them. He's also much better than I expected at working deals with the legislative Dems. He made arrangements with the power brokers on that side of the aisle and then delivered and they returned by delivering. It didn't make for particularly good public policy but the legislature didn't just lock up.