Garden State Patriot

For years we’ve been hearing that NYC is due for a hurricane. Could ‘Bill’ be the one? Stay tuned.

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Well, while I was away Blogivists apparently did not want to cooperate! The series of posts I had scheduled hit a roadblock back on July 6th and none of the subsequent ones posted.

But I remain undeterred. My latest installment on rock’s greatest albums continues below with Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. I will continue to post these in the coming days – hopefully, without any more glitches.

In the meantime it is good to be back home. Europe is a beautiful place, but after a while one longs for America!

God Bless America!

Here’s the good news: GSP will be getting married this weekend!

Here’s the bad news: Posting will be limited for the next few weeks.

I’m hoping to find the time to include some interesting and different content for the time I am away and will alert you if that is forthcoming. So, by all means keep checking in!

As if we didn’t know already, now it is quantified even further for us. From Assemblymen Declan O’Scanlon and David W. Wolfe:

O’SCANLON AND WOLFE: TAXPAYER ADVOCACY GROUP QUANTIFIES NEW JERSEY ’S MISERY

NEW JERSEY TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION’S NEW MISERY INDEX ENUMERATES STATE’S GROWING DEBT, BUDGET, TAX AND UNEMPLOYMENT PAIN 

            Assemblymen Declan O’Scanlon and David W. Wolfe welcomed, but lamented, a new metric, the Misery Index, unveiled by the New Jersey Taxpayers Association that documents the rapidly growing tax, debt, spending and unemployment burden that is afflicting New Jersey taxpayers.

            According to the index – a formula that includes property taxes, state spending, state debt and unemployment rates – New Jersey ’s misery has grown by nearly 25 percent since 2005, the year before Governor Corzine took office, while nearly doubling since 2001 – the year before Democrats took control of state government. 

            “This new tool confirms an unfortunate truth: New Jersey taxpayers have suffered under Governor Corzine’s failed leadership,” O’Scanlon, R-Monmouth and Mercer, said. “Instead of considering our proposals to reduce the size of state government and stop spending money we do not have, Corzine and his Democratic allies in the Legislature have taxed, spent and borrowed at breakneck speed without consideration for New Jersey ’s middle class taxpayers.”

            O’Scanlon and Wolfe, members of the Assembly Budget Committee, expressed concern about next year’s figures as unemployment, property taxes and borrowing have shown no signs of abating in 2009.

            “Governor Corzine has not only inflicted misery on taxpayers by continuing to tax, borrow and spend excessively, he has been tone-deaf to taxpayers’ plight taking away property-tax relief when the middle class needs it the most,” Wolfe, R-Ocean and Monmouth, said. “I commend the New Jersey Taxpayers Association for crafting a new tool to measure the state’s costly misery. I only wish the harsh truth it reflects were more kind.”

Cross-posted at Red County and Conservatives with Attitude!

Recently, I came across a blog site for Assemblyman Jerry Green of the 22nd District. As with all blogs, his allows comments to his posts. So, when I came across the Assemblyman’s site I reacted to a post he had touting his ‘accomplishments.’

Well, apparently Mr. Green didn’t take too well of my criticism of his accomplishments merely being an ability to spend other people’s money too well! My comment never saw the light of day. Nor did my follow-up comment calling him out for not posting my original comment.

If you check out his blog post, there is only one positive comment from an Anonymous poster.

So, Assemblyman Green apparently is quite thin-skinned and doesn’t want his constituents to see him actually have to defend himself.

Hey, Assemblyman…you know what? If you can’t take a little heat from little old me then you have no business being a legislator.

It’s been about 2 weeks, but GSP is back. Our blogging platform had been nailed by spammers but they couldn’t keep us down forever thankfully!

In the event of another outage, please remember to check my other blogs at Conservatives with Attitude! and Red County for my latest.

A little humor here. I just thought this was hysterical. It’s bad enough being one of baseball’s worst teams, but not even being to spell the team’s name right on their unis? Just too funny…

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For the ladies… please be aware that police are currently looking for a very brazen sexual predator who has attacked women in Hackensack, Leonia and Englewood.

Here is the ABC news report on the attacks.

So, please be aware of your surroundings and walk in pairs if at all possible.

On Tuesday I posted that the, ahem, maverick Senator “Benedict” Arlen Specter planned to vote against union card check. According, to Michelle Malkin’s blog, though, there was a big “but” at the end of Specter’s decision:

2:31pm Eastern. Specter just announced his decision on Senate floor and denied that he cut some sort of deal. Says he would be willing to reconsider Card Check when economy improves and his requests to amend the National Labor Relations Act are approved.

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4:20pm Eastern. Pat Toomey picks up on the fine print…

Statement from Pat Toomey on Specter’s Conditional Reversal“When Senator Specter does a flip flop, it’s worth checking the fine print. On the senate floor today he said: “I would be willing to reconsider Employees’ Free Choice legislation when the economy returns to normalcy.” In other words, if he thinks his political fortunes have improved, he will deny workers a secret ballot after all.” – Former Congressman Pat Toomey

Memo to Senator Specter: Did you really think we wouldn’t notice this?

While the RINO Senator continues his tightrope act, he might want to look below because the netting is about to be taken away. The Senator is in big trouble in Pennsylvania, where challenger Pat Toomey is leading him by double digits according to a Quinnipiac poll.

Two separate polls released yesterday show the political hit that Sen. Arlen Specter (R., Pa.) has taken in his party’s base for giving crucial support to the Democrat-drafted $787 billion economic stimulus.

A Quinnipiac University survey found that 53 percent of Republican respondents said that Specter did not deserve reelection. The Franklin & Marshall College Poll, meanwhile, reported that 51 percent of Republican voters think it’s time for a change.

Specter, 79, is seeking a sixth term in next year’s GOP primary, and he already faces fire from the right.

Former Rep. Pat Toomey, a conservative leader from the Lehigh Valley, leads Specter 41 percent to 27 percent, according to the Quinnipiac poll.

Though Toomey came within 17,000 votes of beating Specter in the 2004 GOP primary, the poll found that 73 percent of Republican voters did not know enough about the likely challenger to form an opinion of him.

“Pennsylvania Republicans are so unhappy with Sen. Specter’s vote for President Barack Obama’s stimulus package and so-called pork-barrel spending that they are voting for a former congressman they hardly know,” said Clay F. Richards, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

Suffice it to say, we will remain on top of Senator Specter’s every move as we look to oust this dead wood from our party.

Cross-posted at Conservatives with Attitude!