amongst the best. right, you would say this? descriptively, he s very good at working a room, very good at working crowds. i find his kind of blustery shut up thing unappealing. i think some people find it appealing. but even when he s not doing that, he s very good handling himself in front of a crowd. he says, i m going to get the job done. ross perot, do you remember him? he says, i m going to go in there and fix everything. that s his message, i m going to get it done. the confidence he exudes is going to serve him well. but when they look at his record, that s when it s going to all fall apart. there s also a little bit of this people have been making these regional points about how jersey he is and how particularly kind of new york metro area. when you talk about the imagine confrontation, which is a hilarious thing to imagine, that is very much a metro new york kind of schtick. take a look at the earlier state. and there s a tacit acknowledgement from the christie
this central policy issue, which was getting the pension finances right. and here he is, you know, a term and a half in, and the pension finances are still a mess. and don t forget, the way he got that pension thing senator lesniak, he brought democrats on board with this. he brought one of the sort of dirty secrets of chris christie s governorship, how does he succeed as a governor in a blue state getting something like that through. there s a big democratic boss that basically runs south jersey, and chris christie made an alliance with that guy and chris christie got all those democrats onboard and that s how he got pension reform through. do you think his skills as a retail politician, which i think are quite good. amongst the best. right, you would say this? descriptively, he s very good at working a room, very good at working crowds. i find his kind of blustery shut up thing unappealing. i think some people find it appealing. but even when he s not doing that, he s v
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pentagon today announced off camera briefing it s begun preparing for sequest race, and the harm it would do to national security. the white house said the mood should not be read as change in commitment to reach an agreement. this is act in response. that were is in stark contrast to the defense contractors in october. midst of the presidential campaign to hold off on issuing a 60-day notice of potential layoffs to workers required by law. for to us have gone this long a period of time, without making any preparations for it, i think is a gross disservice to the american people. for months the pentagon officials have been speaking descriptively about the impact of the cuts. face the prospect of budget sequestration. that would be devastating to national security. more detailed look comes from the economiststein fuller at george mason university. he finds that a $45.1 million