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If Chris Christie is going to veto the New Jersey Legislature’s bill approving marriage equality in the state, he should issue that veto not behind the walls of his office in Trenton, but in a room full of the very men, women and children whose happiness and love for one another he is going to unilaterally dismiss and diminish with a rubber fucking stamp. Since this fuck is all about holding himself accountable, this should be of no problem to him.

I shudder to think what would have happened if the civil rights gains, heroically established by courageous lawmakers in the 1960s, were instead conveniently left up to popular votes in our 50 states.

…Equal protection under the law – for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation – should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day. Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right. I hope our leaders in Trenton will affirm and defend it.

Newark, NJ mayor CORY BOOKER, calling out governor Chris Christie for proposing that marriage equality in the Garden State be decided by referendum instead of by legislation, on Jan. 24.

Worth re-posting.

(via NJ.com)

So Chris Christie has promised to veto a marriage equality bill if it reaches his desk. A bill that will have been passed by both houses of the New Jersey Legislature in a prime example of representative democracy. Christie had already said he'd prefer that the issue be put to a referendum instead, where it would doubtlessly be subjected to the irrational, homophobic whims of people like him. So for Chris Christie, who will call you "numb nuts" and bully you if you disagree with him, he'd prefer that your civil rights pass through a gauntlet of the majority first, through their sanctimonious slings and arrows. And if you take the other route prescribed under the state's Constitution -- which is no less difficult and torturous, BTW -- hey, fuck you, Chris Christie will veto that shit anyway. Chris Christie doesn't really give a shit about you. Doesn't matter that who you love is none of his God-damned business.

motherjones:

“But dear God, we should not be putting civil rights issues to a popular vote to be subject to the sentiments, the passions of the day. No minority should have their rights subject to the passions and sentiments of the majority. This is a fundamental bedrock of what our nation stands for.”

Chris Christie, check your gay-marriage milkshake. Cory Booker just drank it.

Five minutes well spent.

I think (African-Americans) would have been happy to have a referendum on civil rights rather than fighting and dying in the streets in the South.

New Jersey governor and Republican darling CHRIS CHRISTIE, who is pushing for a voter referendum on marriage equality in his state rather than take up the issue in the Legislature. 

Yes, because in those good old days, a referendum was a realistic option for African-Americans, you fucking idiot.

(via WCBS 880 AM)

New Jersey Governor (and Dallas Cowboy fan) Chris Christie jinxes the Giants by lobbying to host their Super Bowl Parade... before they've even made the Super Bowl.

thegreg:

Still two wins away from a Super Bowl title, and the governor is talking about where the parade should be held.

Ask New England how that kind of planning works out:

Sounds like a real Cowboy fan move to me…

He should really focus on the New Jersey Nets not holding their post-championship parade in Brooklyn, amirite?

Uncertainty about Christie (and whether or not he’d run for president) has reached the theoretical quantum state first postulated by Heisenberg in 1927. Chris Christie has become Schrödinger’s candidate, like the theoretical cat in a box that is simultaneously alive and dead until the box is opened!

As long as we don’t know whether or not he’s running, Christie is a lock to win the Republican nomination! I just hope, I just pray this afternoon, he did not open that box! (Rolls tape of Christie definitively saying he’s not running.)

So we got a dead cat.

STEPHEN COLBERT, being brilliant, on The Colbert Report
So when urged to run for President, Chris Christie points people directly to a two-minute montage of unequivocal ‘No! I am not running!’ Interpret that for us, oh great political pundits. (Rolls tape of broadcast journalists saying that Christie ‘left the door open’ and that his comments are ‘like a Rorscach test — you see what you wanna see and you hear what you wanna hear!’)

You hear what you wanna hear! Everyone else hears ‘I’M NOT RUNNING!’
JON STEWART, on The Daily Show
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