NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR GETTING RID OF GARBAGE

Chris Christie, unbeknownst to me, is known as "Governor Wrecking Ball" in some circles. He is also a guy who is making some extremely unpopular and tough, but necessary decisions. Look for New Jersey to be back in good shape before too long as Christie is turning off the spigot in a big way - including union pensions.

Via the Washington Times:

He has also taken on the widespread abuses that have contributed to soaring pension costs. On Monday, he signed his first bills into law, making major pension changes that result in less generous benefits for all government workers.

Most contentious have been his attacks on teachers and public-sector unions, which are getting a 7 percent pay raise over two years but contribute little or nothing toward health care at a time when one in 10 New Jerseyans are out of work. This week, the governor called on all public school employees to agree to salary freezes for the coming year and to contribute to their health insurance.

If only every Governor in the United States had the same set of stones.

h/t to Hot Air

SEATTLE TIMES TELLS A VERY, VERY TALL TALE

The Seattle Times has reported that an out-of-control vandal has thrown a rock through the window of Representative Steve Driehaus (D-OH). Aside from also focusing exclusively on how Democrats are being victimized exclusively - they also reported as fact, that racial epithets were hurled at black congressmen as they walked to the Capitol on Saturday, the 20th despite strong evidence it never happened - Driehaus' office is on the 30th Floor!

According to the Lying Times:

A rock was thrown through the window of Driehaus' Cincinnati office Sunday, and a death threat was phoned in to his Washington office a day later, Mulvey said.

The Seattle Times neglected to mention the bullet shot through the window of Eric Cantor's (R-VA) campaign office, which actually has a police report.



Meanwhile, other sites would like to split hairs over the trajectory of the bullet that entered Cantor's office. How about taking a look at the trajectory of that rock that was allegedly thrown upward 30 stories?

h/t to Instapundit